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Race the Olympic movie about Jesse Owens opens in theaters

1936 Olympic champion Jesse Owens is the subject of the new film Race, which opens in theaters in western Michigan today.  The African American runner faced off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.  WGVU talks with Ron Van Timmeran from Celebration Cinema about that film and three others opening on the big screen