Roberto Clemente

About Roberto Clemente

Roberto Clemente is an in-depth look at an exceptional baseball player and committed humanitarian who challenged racial discrimination to become baseball's first Latino superstar. Featuring interviews with Pulitzer Prize-winning authors David Maraniss and George F.

Bernardo Ruiz's Roberto Clemente is a 2008 documentary film. Released in April 2008, it runs 52 minutes.

Jimmy Smits takes the lead as Narrator, and Roberto Clemente as Self (archive footage). The screenplay is by Bernardo Ruiz. It streams on PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel in the United States.