Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson

Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson is a 1993 film made by acclaimed American documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple. Though Tyson was in jail serving a sentence for rape, Kopple used existing interviews with the boxer, as well as her own extensive interviews with those closest to Tyson, to explore the man's history. The film traces Tyson's story from his troubled and tumultuous upbringing, through his rapid ascendancy in the ranks of the boxing world and his subsequent struggle with the trappings of fame. Fallen Champ earned Barbara Kopple a Directors Guild of America award as Best Documentary Director of 1993.

Director: Barbara Kopple

Cast: Mike Tyson, Cus D'Amato, Don King, Robin Givens, Curtis Ratliff, Tracy Trey Travis, Louis Farrakhan, Joyce Carol Oates

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.