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On the Shoulders of Giants: Film Review

6:17 PM PST 3/2/2011 by Justin Lowe

Featuring and co-written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the doc sets the record straight about the Harlem Rens, the first African American professional basketball team to win a national championship.

"The story of the greatest basketball team you never heard of" -- the subtitle of sports doc On the Shoulders of Giants -- couldn’t be more appropriate. The Harlem Rens were the first all-African American professional basketball team to win a national championship, a distinction that until recently was known mostly to the sport's insiders.

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