Trailer for Netflix Documentary BLOOD BROTHERS: MALCOLM X AND MUHAMMAD ALI

Netflix has released a new trailer for their upcoming documentary Blood Brothers: Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali. The feature explores the relationship between the activist and the athlete, and the three years that spanned their overlapping lives. The film is directed by Marcus A. Clarke, and it features people close to the men, including Reverend Al Sharpton, Ilyasah Shabazz, Malcolm X’s daughter, Rahman Ali, the younger brother of Ali, and Maryum Ali, daughter of Muhammad Ali.

Here’s the synopsis via Netflix:

Blood Brothers tells the extraordinary and ultimately tragic story of the friendship between two of the most iconic figures of the 20th century: Muhammad Ali, the greatest boxer of all time, and Malcolm X, the Nation of Islam’s – and black America’s – most incendiary and charismatic leader. This was the unlikeliest of friendships – the brash Olympic Champion who spoke in verse to the amusement of the white press and the ex-con intellectual-turned-revolutionary who railed against the evils of white oppression and dismissed sports as a triviality. But their bond was deep, their friendship real.

This looks like a fascinating and really well-done story about these two iconic men. Check out the trailer below, and watch Blood Brothers: Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali on Netflix on September 9th.