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The Trials of Muhammad Ali
Directed by
Bill Siegel
Not Rated
2013
86m
Documentary
,
Biography
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7.2
88%
85%
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The legal battles of the great American boxer against being conscripted into the US military during the Vietnam War.
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Cast of The Trials of Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali
Himself
David Susskind
Eamonn Andrews
Louis Farrakhan
H. Rap Brown
Abdul Rahman Barman
Malcolm X
Elijah Muhammad
Sonny Liston
Jerry Lewis
Hana Ali
Lester Maddox
Rahman Ali
Bill Siegel
Director
Rachel Pikelny
Producer
The Trials of Muhammad Ali Ratings & Reviews
IndieWire
Kevin Jagernauth
The Ali of this documentary entered the ring a phenom first, but came-of-age outside of it and grew into a man, second.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
For kids who need an Ali primer, the terrific "Trials" is required watching.
Detroit News
Tom Long
As with the best stories, "The Trials of Muhammad Ali" puts one man's story within a greater context. This is Ali's story, but it's America's story, too. Here, it's well told.
RogerEbert.com
Peter Sobczynski
The Trials of Muhammad Ali allows us a chance to see Muhammad Ali not as an icon but as a man willing to take a stand, even an unpopular one, for something that he believed in.
Chicago Sun-Times
Bruce Ingram
Conventional yet fascinating.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Ali's life has been recounted so many times that you'd think no one could come up with a fresh angle on it; documentary maker Bill Siegel succeeds, primarily by delving into the religious story, largely downplayed by the mainstream.
HollywoodChicago.com
Brian Tallerico
With athletes in 2013 giving in to everything around them, Ali's strength feels even more palpable. He truly was the greatest.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
If you have fond memories of David Susskind's talk shows from the golden age of 1960s television, prepare to have them blasted away by this revealing documentary.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
There is history as it's remembered, and then there's history as it happened. This documentary gives us the latter, and it's a true education.
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
The archival footage in Bill Siegel's documentary "The Trials of Muhammad Ali" is wondrous. How could it not be, featuring the gentleman in the title.
Grantland
Wesley Morris
The film deploys the usual nonfiction arsenal of news footage, archival photographs, and interviews to bring home the strange electricity of these seven or so years.
Philadelphia Inquirer
David Hiltbrand
The documentary The Trials of Muhammad Ali is an extraordinarily detailed and textured examination of the man, the time, and the societal forces involved.
Washington Post
Sean O'Connell
Balanced. It shows us just enough of Ali in his prime so that we understand how much he lost when he refused to serve in Vietnam.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
An intriguing portrait of a man who never wavered no matter what the world threw at him. Which was a lot.
Variety
Dennis Harvey
The heavyweight champ's controversial political views are reexamined in this stirring, fascinating documentary.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Cary Darling
The Trials of Muhammad Ali, Bill Siegel's fascinating documentary about the legendary boxer, cares less about how he handled himself in the ring than how he handled himself in life.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The saga of Ali's refusal to be drafted during Vietnam becomes a profile in courage -- a tale of shocking vilification and faith lost and found.
The Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
An invigorating doc brings the long-forgotten controversy to life.
The Dissolve
Noel Murray
Ali's greatest fight, covered in this film as it never has been before, was to be accepted as himself, not as anyone's symbol.
New York Times
Nicolas Rapold
"The Trials of Muhammad Ali" succumbs to the looming danger of hero worship by its end, when Mr. Ali's daughter appears and his continuing trial, Parkinson's, is addressed.
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