The Brown Bomber : What America Made Joe Louis Pay

Joe Louis held the heavyweight title longer than any man in history, beat Max Schmeling in two minutes as the world watched, and gave his fight money to the U.S. war effort. Then the IRS sent him a bill he could never pay. This documentary follows the Brown Bomber from Alabama and Detroit, through the Seven Commandments that shaped his public image, the Schmeling fights, and the war years, to the tax debt, the forced comebacks, the 1970 breakdown, and his final night at Caesar's Palace in 1981. Not a story of a fighter who failed. A story of what America made Joe Louis pay. #JoeLouis #BrownBomber #BoxingHistory #BoxingDocumentary #HeavyweightChampion #MaxSchmeling #BlackHistory #BoxingLegends #PrimeAge #history