The Great Debaters
PG-13 · 2007 ‧ Drama/Historical drama ‧ 2h 6m
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Poet and professor Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington) teaches at the predominately black Wiley College in 1935 Texas. He decides to start a debate team, something nearly unheard of at a black college. While at first he butts heads with the...
Release date: December 25, 2007 (USA)
Director: Denzel Washington
Story by: Robert Eisele; Jeffrey Porro
Distributed by: The Weinstein Company and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Box office: $30.2 million
Music by: Peter Golub; James Newton Howard
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A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, ...
The film follows the trials and tribulations of the Wiley College debate team in 1935 Texas. ... It stars Washington, Forest Whitaker, Denzel Whitaker, Kimberly ...
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Based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor from the historically black Wiley College in East Texas. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form ...
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