When We Were Kings When We Were Kings When We Were Kings is a 1996 Academy Award winning documentary film directed by Leon Gast about the famous "Rumble in the Jungle" heavyweight championship match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. The fight was held in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) on October 30, 1974. The film features a number of celebrities, including James Brown, Jim Brown, B.B. King, Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, Spike Lee and Thomas Hauser. "When We Were Kings" was released in 1996 to strong reviews, and won the 1996 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It took Gast
Bungle in the Jungle known as "The Chateau D'isaster Tapes". Not released at the time, however, one or two of the songs managed to get recorded in the albums "A Passion Play" and "War Child." At that time Anderson was working on a different album about the human condition, with analogies from the animal kingdom. "Bungle in the Jungle" was finished just in time to be put onto "War Child" in 1974. The song was written and composed to become part of the soundtrack for a film which was never actually produced. The film screenplay script was a black comedy about a dead teenage