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Ken Burns: ‘Muhammad Ali’

The Treatment

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Malcolm X - Is This a Boxing Show?

There's a great line that malcolm x has when he's asked about bmely turning to islam n. He says, he's more capable of speaking for himself than every man in this country. I mean, to me, that feels like the perfect incapsilation of what the series is. It's working on lots different levels. We obviously want to understand the boxing. But we also wanted to understand this as a story, as i've been saying, about freedomdand how much it takes to achieve that.

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