Rising from Ashes
- IMDb link: 2088883
- IMDb rating: 7.4 (288 votes)
- Genres: Sport, Documentary
- Director: Forest Whitaker, T.C. Johnstone
- Cast: Jonathan 'Jock' Boyer, Adrien Niyonshuti, Tom Ritchey and others
- Release date: 18 Oct 2012
- Release year: 2012
- Runtime: 82 minutes
- Country: United States, Rwanda, United Kingdom, South Africa
- Keywords: 2010s, cycling sport, 2012 london summer olympics, summer olympics, three word title, the olympic games, rwanda, bicycle, racing team
Plot:
Rising from Ashes is a feature length documentary about the first Rwandan national cycling team in their bid to make history and represent their country at the 2012 Olympics. Competing in a white man's sport, reserved for the privileged, a rag tag group of cyclists coached by the first American to ride in the Tour de France, are transformed into a powerful symbol of hope for a country recovering from one of the world's most devastating genocides.