Airing on the eve of the XX X Olympiad, this is a biographical movie about  the famous Native American Olympic athlete who fought prejudice in his pursuit of sports stardom. Considered by many to be the greatest all-around athlete America has ever produced, Jim Thorpe rose from an Oklahoma reservation to become an Olympic champion and professional football star. In the 1912 Olympics at Stockholm, Thorpe earned more gold medals than any other athlete, setting pentathlon and decathlon records and winning praise from the King of Sweden as the world's greatest athlete. Unfortunately, he was stripped of his medals when it was discovered that he had once played professional baseball. After dashed hopes of becoming a coach and the death of a son, he drifted into alcoholism and earned a meager living playing bit parts in movies, usually in stereotypical Indian roles. TV-PG. Available on DVD