This essay is about a video report on "When We Were Kings". The video is a documentary on Muhammad Ali and his path to greatness. To fully understand the essay, you would need to have watched the film. Even if you hav not watched the movie, most of the essay will make resonable sense. When We Were Kings Muhammad Ali's significance for Spike Lee Spike Lee's quote: "There was a time when, if you called …showed first 75 words of 1713 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1713 total…entire life and boxing career, how he is in a way someone very special to all the black Americans and black peoples around the world. Many of which have called him a prophet, or a messiah, and his doings an act of God. I believe that the filmmakers have constructed Muhammad Ali's portrait in this manner to show the people in the world, especially the black societies, what a great man Muhammad Ali truly was.