Pure Nonfiction: Inside Documentary Film

Pure Nonfiction: Inside Documentary Film


133: Remembering Leon Gast & “When We Were Kings”

March 18, 2021

“When We Were Kings” director Leon King died on March 8 at age 84. He took over twenty years to make his Oscar-winning documentary about the boxers Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman, filmed in Zaire in 1974 and completed in 1996.