For kids who need an Ali primer, the terrific "Trials" is required watching.

As with the best stories, "The Trials of Muhammad Ali" puts one man's story within a greater context. This is Ali's story, but it's America's story, too. Here, it's well told.

The Trials of Muhammad Ali allows us a chance to see Muhammad Ali not as an icon but as a man willing to take a stand, even an unpopular one, for something that he believed in.

A solid if undistinguished documentary that's content to show a series of incidents rather than dig into the cultural ramifications of Ali's stand.