Althea
7.1
“A documentary film about the trailblazing athlete, Althea Gibson”
Althea Gibson’s life and achievements transcend sports. A truant from the rough streets of Harlem, Althea emerged as a most unlikely queen of the highly segregated tennis world in the 1950s. Her roots as a sharecropper’s daughter, her family’s migration north to Harlem in the 1930s, mentoring from Sugar Ray Robinson, David Dinkins and others, and fame that thrust her unwillingly into the glare of the early Civil Rights movement, all bring her story into a much broader realm of the American story.
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15 people
Rex Miller Director · David Majzlin Composer Elisabeth Haviland James Editor
Budget $700K · United States release November 14, 2014
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Budget
$700,000
Production
Icarus Films
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · November 14, 2014
Theatrical
France
May 3, 2017 · Digital · VOD
May 6, 2021 · Digital · Prime Video
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