Product Details

• Actors: Muhammad Ali: Made in Miami
• Directors: Alan Tomlinson (producer, writer), Gaspar Gonzalez (producer, writer)
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: PBS
• DVD Release Date: August 12, 2008
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0018O5WU0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #35,776 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/12/2008 Run time: 60 minutes Rating: Nr

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5.0 out of 5 stars Before He Was King, August 17, 2008

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This review is from: Muhammad Ali: Made in Miami (DVD)

After the 1960 Summer Olympics, Cassius Clay was a heralded boxing gold medalist embarking on a professional career in Miami, Florida.

In February 1964, the sports world witnessed Clay's incredible victory in Miami Beach over feared champion Sonny Liston and the world witnessed the birth of an icon who transcended the "sweet science," Muhammad Ali.

This PBS documentary chronicles an oftentimes overlooked period in the development of Clay the fighter and Ali the man during his years in the Fifth Avenue Gym and living in Miami's Overtown district, a thriving black community which carried the moniker, "Harlem south."

With special focus on legendary trainer Angelo Dundee and "The Fight Doctor," Dr. Ferdie Pacheco, the development of the extraordinary talents is shown like never before. Interviews with Overtown residents, neighbors and media members provides great insight in the growing social and political awareness of an athlete who had special focus in using his athletic prowess for a greater good.

Ali biographer Thomas Hauser and journalist David Remnick utilize a historical context to bring many elements of this fascinating story together.

Before he became king, a foundation was set in Miami. The legend comes to life like never before in this brilliant documentary.

5.0 out of 5 stars The voluble, witty, intelligent and crackingly alive Muhammad Ali, January 28, 2012

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Andy Orrock (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Muhammad Ali: Made in Miami (Amazon Instant Video)

Muhammad Ali: Made in Miami is a must-see for all Ali fans. The great overarching sadness of the film is the viewer's knowledge that Ali - still among the living at a just-turned 70 - is treated and discussed in this film as having passed from this earthly realm. And, indeed, the voluble, witty, intelligent, crackingly alive Ali seen in this vibrant pastiche is the polar opposite of the silent, reclusive, physically beset man of today.

If you're a student of Ali oeuvre like I am, you'll note that the material in this production hews closely to the ground covered in David Remnick's masterful King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero and photographer Flip Schulke's Muhammad Ali: The Birth of a Legend, Miami, 1961-1964. Both men appear as interview subjects herein, as does Ali's esteemed biographer, Thomas Hauser, New York Times sports journalist, Robert Lipsyte, and Columbia African-American Studies professor, Manning Marable. Marable - who passed away tragically last year on the eve of publication of his Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention - offers critical insight on the roots of Ali's involvement with the Nation of Islam and his personal connections to Malcolm X.

This 60-minute film could easily be six hours in length and no less fascinating, such is this man's rich early life. Boiled down to an hour-long essence, the film traverses three parallel tracks: Ali's post-Olympics move to Miami (from his Louisville base) to train with Angelo Dundee at the city's famed 5th Street Gym (footage from those sessions of Ali's jawdropping foot- and hand-speed is mesmerizing); Ali's two fights with Sonny Liston (the production captures the fever pitch leading to the first fight that Remnick captures so brilliantly in his book); and Ali's flirtation with - and then fledgling allegiance to - the Nation of Islam (carried through to Ali's betrayal of Malcolm X...something he has rued for the rest of his life...Marable is superb at relating the story). The three parts are skillfully interwoven and are equally compelling.

5.0 out of 5 stars Muhammad Ali in Miami, October 15, 2011

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This review is from: Muhammad Ali: Made in Miami (DVD)

A must have for Ali fan.. Reflections of his days in Miami's Liberty City. His new life, new trainer, Angelo Dundee, Drew Brown, Dr. Freddie Pocheco, and a host of other. Explains clearly his rise, his fall, and ressurection