Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

Synopsis

Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector status led to a controversial legal battle that rattled the U.S. judicial system right up to the highest court in the land.

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Cast

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  Christopher Plummer
  John Marshall Harlan

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  Frank Langella
  Chief Justice Warren Burger

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  Ed Begley Jr.
  Justice Harry Blackmun

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  Peter Gerety
  William Brennan

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  Barry Levinson
  Justice Potter Stewart

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  John Bedford Lloyd
  Byron 'Whizzer' White

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  Fritz Weaver
  Hugo Black

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  Harris Yulin
  William O. Douglas

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  Danny Glover
  Justice Thurgood Marshall

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  Benjamin Walker
  Kevin Kennedy

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  Pablo Schreiber
  Covert Becker

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  Ben Steinfeld
  Sam Edelstein

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  Dana Ivey
  Mrs. Paige

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  Kathleen Chalfant
  Ethel Harlan

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  Lisa Joyce
  Donna Connolly

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  Peter McRobbie
  Erwin Griswold

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  Damian Young
  Ramsey Clark

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  Chuck Cooper
  Chauncey Eskridge