Cultural Influences
The 2008 Sydney Film Festival featured a documentary about the protest entitled Salute. The film was written, directed and produced by Matt Norman, an Australian actor and filmmaker, and Peter Norman's nephew.
On 9 July 2008, BBC Four broadcast a documentary, Black Power Salute, by Geoff Small, about the protest and its aftermath. In an article, Small noted that the athletes of the British team attending the 2008 Olympics in Beijing had been asked to sign gagging clauses which would have restricted their right to make political statements, but that they had refused.
The song "Mr. John Carlos" by Nationalteatern from their 1974 album Livet är en fest is about the event and its aftermath (especially for John Carlos).
Read more about this topic: 1968 Olympics Black Power Salute
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