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| When We Were Kings | |
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| Directed by | Leon Gast |
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| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Maryse Alberti Paul Goldsmith Kevin Keating Albert Maysles Roderick Young |
| Edited by | Leon Gast Taylor Hackford Jeffrey Levy-Hinte Keith Robinson |
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| Distributed by | Gramercy Pictures |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $2,789,985[1] |
When We Were Kings is a 1996 American documentary film directed by Leon Gast about the "Rumble in the Jungle" heavyweight championship boxing match that was held on October 30, 1974, in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) between world heavyweight champion George Foreman and Muhammad Ali. It features archival footage of celebrities, including James Brown, B.B. King, and promoter Don King, in the lead-up to the fight and accompanying Zaire 74 music festival, alongside interview footage of Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, Spike Lee and Thomas Hauser from the 1990s.
The film took Gast 22 years to edit and finance,[2] but it was finally released to strong reviews[3] and won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature of 1996.[4]
- ^ When We Were Kings at Box Office Mojo
- ^ "When We Were Kings". Entertainment Weekly.
- ^ Rotten Tomatoes page: "When We Were Kings"
- ^ "NY Times: When We Were Kings". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-01-27. Retrieved 2008-11-21.