Roger Bannister is captured at the exultant moment he breaks a record—and sets a new one—by running the fastest four-minute mile in recorded history. Bannister’s astounding feat of running a mile in less than four minutes was formerly assumed to be impossible. With his headline-grabbing 3 minute 59.4 second win at Oxford’s Iffley Road Track in 1954, he set what is now the standard for all professional middle-distance runners. Bannister was honored by Sports Illustrated as its first Sportsman of the Year, went on to become a prominent neurologist, and was knighted in 1975.

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