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Muhammad Ali

docuseries by Burns [2021]

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discussed in biography

In Ken Burns
…work of the literary giant; Muhammad Ali (2021), an in-depth look at the legendary boxer; and The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022), which explores how racism and anti-Semitism contributed to America’s slow response to the state-sponsored killing of Jews and others by Nazi Germany during World War II.
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portrayal of Ali

In Muhammad Ali
…What’s My Name (2019) and Muhammad Ali (2021), the latter of which was codirected by Ken Burns. Ali was a member of the inaugural class of the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990, and in 2005 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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