George Foreman

July 10, 2009 at 6:23am PST

Tags: BB King, Bill Withers, Celia Cruz, George Foreman, James Brown, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, Leon Gast, Muhammad Ali, When We Were Kings

Photos: Sony Pictures Classics

Soul Power isn't a documentary so much as it is a document. Director Jeffrey Levy-Hinte was originally hired as an editor on Leon Gast's brilliant, Academy Award-winning film When We Were Kings, the story surrounding “The Rumble in the Jungle,” Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's legendary boxing battle in 1974. The movie was culled from over 125 hours of footage and, when the assembly was over, Levy-Hinte couldn’t live with the knowledge that the remaining film was destined to lay dormant in a vault for the rest of time.

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