Rural basketball coaches, inner-city math and music teachers — they are, as we all know, everywhere in the movies, inspiring their unlikely charges to equally unlikely triumphs. Most of these films ...

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Here are a few more things worth knowing about the documentary flick. The Real Great Debaters of Wiley College starring Gail Beil, Eleanor Boswell, Thomas Freeman, Lewis Keys has a Not Rated rating, a ...

Denzel Washington's "The Great Debaters" will be honored with the Stanley Kramer Award, given annually to recognize films involving "provocative social issues." By Carl DiOrio, The Associated Press ...

The second directorial outing from Denzel Washington, the Weinstein Co.’s “The Great Debaters” is approaching its Christmas release with less hype than some other kudos hopefuls but plenty to endear ...

In 1935, Wiley College, a small Black college in Marshall, Texas defeated defending national champions University of Southern California in a debate. In terms of Black History, this story ...

Washington's directing style is not heavy handed. He wants the story to shine through his young debaters, Henry, Samantha and James, played by Nate Parker, Jurnee Smollett and Denzel Whitaker (no ...

MARSHALL, Texas -- Deep in the heart of East Texas, a small historically black college continues to get worldwide attention thanks to single motion picture. “When we arrive at tournaments, they say, ...

A Tulsa debate champ is the inspiration for a blockbuster. "The Great Debaters" is based on the true story of an all black debate team that won the national championship back in the 1930s. The News On ...

As shocking as it is to revisit an era when the lynchings of African Americans were commonplace in the Jim Crow South, "The Great Debaters" feels like a movie set in another world for another, almost ...