Based on an excellent book by Daniel James Brown, it's the story of the Universtiy of Washington crew team, who went to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and won gold. A scrappy underdog story, with the patina of history. Directed by George Clooney.
Not as good as the book in that it left out the aspects of Lemi Riefenstahl the German Nazi propagandist, the relation between Joe and his family and the depression era aspect that overshadowed the story.
