Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and demolished Adolf Hitler's fantasy of Aryan racial supremacy on the world's biggest stage. Then he came home to an America that made him ride the freight elevator to his own victory reception at the Waldorf-Astoria because the front elevator was for white guests only.

This episode traces Owens from his sharecropper childhood in Alabama through the record-shattering Big Ten meet, the Berlin triumph that enraged the Nazi regime, and the postwar years of poverty and exhibition races that revealed how little his own country valued his achievement.

• Owens's childhood poverty and the coach who transformed him into the fastest man alive
• The 1935 Big Ten meet where he broke five world records in forty-five minutes
• The four gold medals in Berlin and the myth of ...