The legendary world heavyweight boxing champion, John Arthur 'Jack' Johnson, visits Manchester.

Film recording of a controversial boxing match with the first black heavyweight champion fighting a white retired former champion.

An American story. Traces the career of Joe Louis (1914-1981) within the context of American racial consciousness: his difficulty getting big fights...

Jack Johnson, the first African-American heavyweight boxing champion, plays himself in a sports-themed melodrama where Joe Walker, a "98-pound...

The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.

Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.

Jack Johnson is a 1970 documentary film directed by Jim Jacobs about the boxer Jack Johnson.

In 1918, the poet and boxer Arthur Cravan disappears in the Gulf of Mexico without a trace. Today, another boxer and artist, film director Frank...