Two very different finish lines frame Untold: Caitlyn Jenner, Crystal Moselle's 2021 sports documentary: the one at the end of an Olympic decathlon, and the far longer one that came decades later.
What is Untold: Caitlyn Jenner about?
After falling short at the 1972 Games, a young decathlete commits everything to a single goal: gold at Montreal in 1976. The documentary follows that pursuit, the years of training it demanded and the moment it paid off in front of the world, turning an athlete into a household name. Yet the film treats the podium as only half the story. Running alongside the sporting arc is a more private struggle, the slow process of coming to terms with who Caitlyn Jenner really was, and the decision, much later in life, to live openly as herself. Moselle sets the two journeys side by side, letting the discipline and doubt of the first illuminate the courage required by the second. Rather than a conventional highlight reel, the result is a portrait of identity told through the lens of competition, where the greatest victory turns out to be personal rather than athletic.
About the cast
Caitlyn Jenner appears throughout, telling her own story in her own words. The credits also list Burt Jenner, Kendall Jenner, Kris Jenner and Kylie Jenner, along with Tom Brokaw, Johnny Carson and Walter Cronkite, names that suggest how much archival television material the film draws on.
Context & significance
Crystal Moselle, who directs, brings a documentary sensibility that favours intimacy over spectacle, and at sixty-nine minutes the film is compact enough to watch in a single sitting without feeling rushed. It belongs to the growing body of sports documentaries that use an athlete's career as a doorway into wider questions, in this case the relationship between public achievement and private truth. The decathlon, with its ten events spread over two days, is itself a fitting metaphor for a life measured in stages rather than a single sprint, and the film leans into that structure.
Watching Untold: Caitlyn Jenner on Ktime
Untold: Caitlyn Jenner is available on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so you can choose the version that suits you. A K-Time account is needed to stream it, and signing in costs nothing. The service is designed around a Farsi interface, which makes discovering documentaries like this one straightforward for Persian-speaking viewers across the diaspora.