In this Oscar-winning true story, two very different men compete in the 1924 Paris Olympics. Ian Charleson stars as in this true story as Eric Liddell, a devout Christian who believes that his athletic abilities are a gift from God, and that using that gift to its fullest extent, to win the gold medal, will be his way of glorifying God. Ben Cross stars as Harold Abrahams, an English Jew and a student at Cambridge, who dreams of fame and of proving to his anti-Semetic fellow students, and to the world, that Jews are not inferior.