The Trials of Muhammad Ali
Promotional release poster
Directed by	Bill Siegel
Produced by	Leon Gast Justine Nagan Rachel Pikelny Gordon Quinn Kat White
Starring	Muhammad Ali Louis Farrakhan Robert Lipsyte
Cinematography	Andrew Black
Edited by	Aaron Wickenden
Music by	Joshua Abrams
Production company	Kartemquin Films
Distributed by	Kino Lorber
Release date	May 5, 2013 (2013-05-05) (United States)
Running time	86 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$57,579

The Trials of Muhammad Ali is a 2013 American documentary film about the heyday of boxer Muhammad Ali's career, with special focus on his conversion to Islam and his refusal to fight in the Vietnam War.^[1] It won an award for Best Use of News Footage from the International Documentary Association in 2014.^[2]

Cast

Interviewees:

• Louis Farrakhan
• Robert Lipsyte
• John Carlos
• Angelo Dundee

Archive footage:

• Muhammad Ali
• George W. Bush
• David Susskind
• Lyndon Johnson
• Jerry Lewis
• Malcolm X
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Elijah Muhammad

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 88% based on 42 reviews, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The website's consensus reads, "Director Bill Siegel doesn't explore any new boundaries of the documentary with The Trials of Muhammad Ali, but his subject is so inherently fascinating that the movie proves gripping in spite of its familiar beats."^[3]