

Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson
1993 Directed by Barbara KoppleFallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson is a 1993 film made by acclaimed American documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple. Though Tyson was in jail serving a sentence for rape, Kopple used existing interviews with the boxer, as well as her own extensive interviews with those closest to Tyson, to explore the man's history. The film traces Tyson's story from his troubled and tumultuous upbringing, through his rapid ascendancy in the ranks of the boxing world and his subsequent struggle with the trappings of fame. Fallen Champ earned Barbara Kopple a Directors Guild of America award as Best Documentary Director of 1993.

Mike Tyson
....................................................Self (archive footage)

Cus D'Amato
....................................................Self (archive footage)

Don King
....................................................Self (archive footage)

Robin Givens
....................................................Self (archive footage)
Curtis Ratliff
....................................................Self - Friend
Tracy Trey Travis
....................................................Self - Friend

Louis Farrakhan
....................................................Self (archive footage)
Director
...........................................................Barbara Kopple
Executive Producer
...........................................................Diane Sokolow
Producer
...........................................................Barbara Kopple
Editor
...........................................................Bill Davis
Leon Gast
Original Music Composer
...........................................................Michael Bacon
Richard G. Mitchell
Production Companies
...................................................The Sokolow Company
TriStar Television
Cabin Creek Films
Production Countries
........................................................United States of America
Spoken Languages
....................................................English
Genres
....................................................Documentary
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