• Feb 12, 1993
  • 93 min
  • Full-HD

Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson (1993)

Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson is a 1993 film made by acclaimed American documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple. Though Tyson was in jail serving a sentence for rape, Kopple used existing interviews with the boxer, as well as her own extensive interviews with those closest to Tyson, to explore the man's history. The film traces Tyson's story from his troubled and tumultuous upbringing, through his rapid ascendancy in the ranks of the boxing world and his subsequent struggle with the trappings of fame. Fallen Champ earned Barbara Kopple a Directors Guild of America award as Best Documentary Director of 1993.

Category
Country
United States of America
Companies
The Sokolow Company TriStar Television Cabin Creek Films

Mike Tyson

Self (archive footage)

Cus D'Amato

Self (archive footage)

Don King

Self (archive footage)

Robin Givens

Self (archive footage)

Curtis Ratliff

Self - Friend

Tracy Trey Travis

Self - Friend

Louis Farrakhan

Self (archive footage)

Joyce Carol Oates

Self

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