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The Trials of Muhammad Ali


The Trials of Muhammad Ali
Promotional release poster
Bill Siegel
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Leon Gast
Justine Nagan
Rachel Pikelny
Gordon Quinn
Kat White
Muhammad Ali
Louis Farrakhan
Robert Lipsyte
Andrew Black
Aaron Wickenden
Joshua Abrams
Kartemquin Films
Kino Lorber
May 5, 2013 (2013-05-05) (United States)
86 minutes
United States
English
$57,579

The Trials of Muhammad Ali is a 2013 American documentary film about the heyday of boxer Muhammad Ali's career, with special focus on his conversion to Islam and his refusal to fight in the Vietnam War. It won an award for Best Use of News Footage from the International Documentary Association in 2014.

Interviewees:

  • Louis Farrakhan
  • Robert Lipsyte
  • John Carlos
  • Angelo Dundee

Archive footage:

  • Muhammad Ali
  • George W. Bush
  • David Susskind
  • Lyndon Johnson
  • Jerry Lewis
  • Malcolm X
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Elijah Muhammad

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 88% based on 42 reviews, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The website's consensus reads, "Director Bill Siegel doesn't explore any new boundaries of the documentary with The Trials of Muhammad Ali, but his subject is so inherently fascinating that the movie proves gripping in spite of its familiar beats."

  • The Trials of Muhammad Ali at IMDb
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