PBS Readies Olympian "THE BOYS OF ' 36" DVD Release

PBS Distribution announced today it is releasing “AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: THE BOYS OF ‘36” on DVD. Inspired by Daniel James Brown’s critically acclaimed nonfiction book The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The thrilling true story of the American rowing team that triumphed against all odds in Nazi Germany, The Boys in the Boat is published by Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. The book has been on The New York Times bestseller list for 95 weeks. 

“AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: THE BOYS OF ‘36” will be available on DVD August 16, 2016. The run time of the DVD is approximately 60 minutes and its SRP is $24.99.

“The Boys of ’36” is the story of nine working-class young men from the University of Washington who took the rowing world and the nation by storm when they captured the gold medal at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. These sons of loggers, shipyard workers and farmers overcame tremendous hardships — psychological, physical and economic — to beat not only the Ivy League teams of the East Coast but Adolf Hitler’s elite German rowers. Their unexpected victory, and the obstacles they overcame to achieve it, gave hope to a nation struggling to emerge from the depths of the Depression.