1968 Mexico City Documentary (courtesy NBC Olympics)

The story of the collision of sport and politics at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. Amidst the backdrop of the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, and large-scale protests in North America and Europe, Tommie Smith and John Carlos’ Black Power salute on the awards podium became an icon of the civil rights movement that still resonates, 50 years later. Narrated by Serena Williams.