The four-part PBS series covers its subject well, but not as well as the many, many other films about Ali
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Cast
Will Smith (Cassius Clay)Jamie Foxx (Drew 'Bundini' Brown)Jon Voight (Howard Cosell)Mario Van Peebles (Malcolm X)Ron Silver (Angelo Dundee)Jeffrey Wright (Howard Bingham)Mykelti Williamson (Don King)Jada Pinkett Smith (Sonji)Nona Gaye (Belinda Ali)Michael Michele (Veronica Porche)Joe Morton (Chauncey Eskridge)Paul Rodriguez (Dr. Ferdie Pacheco)Bruce McGill (Bradley)Barry Shabaka Henley (Herbert Muhammad)Giancarlo Esposito (Cassius Clay, Sr.)Laurence Mason (Luis Sarria)LeVar Burton (Martin Luther King, Jr.)Albert Hall (Elijah Muhammad)
Director
Michael Mann
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Synopsis
A biography of sports legend Muhammad Ali, focusing on his triumphs and controversies between 1964 and 1974.
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