The film is based on real events - the autobiography of an Olympic champion from a poor Native American reservation ..
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This is a true story of a man's victory over prejudice, pain and himself.
Billy Mills, a Lakota Native American tribe who grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation (South Dakota), became an orphan early and the only thing that fascinated him and helped him in difficult hours was running ...
But he didn’t know that he was going to - against all odds - become the best distance runner in the world ...