Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey is a documentary

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 on the martial artist Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee was a Chinese American, Hong Kong actor, martial arts instructor, philosopher, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and founder of the Jeet Kune Do martial arts movement...

 and Jeet Kune Do

Jeet Kune Do

Jeet Kune Do is a hybrid martial arts system and life philosophy founded by martial artist Bruce Lee with direct, non classical and straightforward movements. Due to the way his style works they believe in minimal movement with maximum effect and extreme speed. The system works on the use of...

. It was released on VHS and DVD by Warner Home Video

Warner Home Video

Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., itself part of Time Warner. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video . The company launched in the United States with twenty films on VHS and Betamax videocassettes in late 1979...

. The documentary includes rare footage of Bruce Lee's incomplete film "Game of Death

Game of Death

The Game of Death is a 1972 film starring Bruce Lee. It was almost the last film Bruce Lee had planned to be the demonstration piece of his martial art Jeet Kune Do. Over 100 minutes of footage was shot before his death, some of which was later misplaced in the Golden Harvest archives...

", which has been released with Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee was a Chinese American, Hong Kong actor, martial arts instructor, philosopher, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and founder of the Jeet Kune Do martial arts movement...

's original English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 and Cantonese dubbing as part of the documentary. Most of the footage which was shot is from what was to be the centre piece of the film.

Enter the Dragon: Special Edition

'Warrior's Journey' is a documentary in its own right, but it can be found as a bonus feature on the release of the 2004 edition of Enter the Dragon

Enter the Dragon

Enter the Dragon is a 1973 Hong Kong martial arts co-production with Golden Harvest and Warner Bros. studios, directed by Robert Clouse; starring Bruce Lee, Jim Kelly and John Saxon. This is Bruce Lee's final film appearance before his death on July 20, 1973...

on DVD along with the documentary, Bruce Lee: The Curse of the Dragon

Bruce Lee: The Curse of the Dragon

Bruce Lee Curse of the Dragon is a 1993 Bruce Lee documentary that focuses on the life and death of the legend. It includes insights and interviews from some of his fellow students and opponents who worked alongside him in his movies...

. This is considered one of the best documentaries made on his life as it strongly emphasizes Bruce Lee's philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

, way of life and thinking, and also the racial problems which he faced in America

United States

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External links

• IGN Enter the Dragon (Special Edition) Review