For the Scott Sorry album, see When We Were Kings (album).
When We Were Kings
Directed by
Leon Gast
Produced by
Leon Gast
David Sonenberg
Taylor Hackford
Starring
Muhammad Ali
George Foreman
James Brown
B.B. King
Norman Mailer
George Plimpton
Spike Lee
The Crusaders
The Spinners
Cinematography
Maryse Alberti Paul Goldsmith Kevin Keating Albert Maysles Roderick Young
Edited by
Leon Gast Taylor Hackford Jeffrey Levy-Hinte Keith Robinson
Production company
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Distributed by
Gramercy Pictures
Release dates
January 1996 (1996-01)(Sundance) October 25, 1996 (1996-10-25)
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.
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