The Express is the real story of the life of Ernie Davis, one of the best American football players at the university level in the decade of the 1960s. It shows how Ernie Davis, an African American person who comes from a humble family and tries to make his way in the competitive world of American football.
The film shows the prejudices an African American person had to suffer at the time of a sport mostly practiced by white men and in a society in which African Americans were not accepted as equals to their white counterparts.
Link to IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469903/