‘Michael’: how The Jackson 5 and the early years are portrayed

In partnership with Universal Pictures UK

The Michael Jackson story begins in Gary, Indiana, an industrial city that’s home to the largest steel mill complex in North America. The value of the grind was impressed on Michael from a young age by his father, Joe Jackson, a highly ambitious man whose dreams of becoming a professional boxer were supplanted by the need to provide for his family. He and wife Katherine, whom he married in 1949, welcomed 10 children, one of whom died shortly a...