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The Great Debaters (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition) DVD

PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) :: Genius Products (TVN) :: Released: 2008-05-13

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The Great Debaters (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition) Summary Denzel Washington directs and stars in this uplifting drama based on a true story about a small East Texas all-black college in 1935 that rises to the top of the nation's debate teams in a duel against Harvard. A poet and debating coach at Wiley College, Professor Melvin Tolson (Washington) sees debating as "a blood sport" and recruits the meanest and brightest, including troubled Henr

Two-time Academy Award® Winner Denzel Washington (american Gangster) Directs And Stars With Academy Award® Winner Forest Whitaker (last King Of Scotland) In This Important And Deeply Inspiring Page From The Not-so-distant Past (richard Roeper, At The Movies With Ebert And Roeper). Inspired By A True Story, Washington Shines As A Brilliant But Politically Radical Debate Team Coach Who Uses The Power Of Words To Transform A Group Of Underdog African American College Students Into An Historical Powerhouse That Took On The Harvard Elite. Dvd Special Features:

Disc One: Deleted Scenes
The Great Debaters: An Historical Perspective;that's What My Baby Likes Music Video. My Soul Is A Witness; Music Video. Theatrical Trailer
Sneak Peeks: Grace Is Gone, Cassandra's Dream, I'm Not There, Hunting Party
Disc Two: The Great Debaters: A Heritage Of Music
Scoring The Great Debaters With James Newton Howard & Peter Golub
Learning The Art: Our Young Actors Go To Debate Camp
Forest Whitaker On Becoming James Farmer, Sr.
A New Generation Of Actors
The 1930's Wardrobe Of Sharen Davis
The Production Design Of David J. Bomba
The Poetry Of Melvin B. Tolson

Inspired by real events, the fascinating The Great Debaters reveals one of the seeds of the Civil Rights Movement in its story of Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington in a captivating performance) and his champion 1935 debate club from the all-African-American Wiley College in Texas. Tolson, a Wiley professor, labor organizer, modernist poet, and much else, runs a rigorous debate program at the school, selecting four students as his team in ’35, among them the future founder of the Congress of Racial Equality, James Farmer Jr. (Denzel Whitaker). Washington, who directed The Great Debaters from a script by Robert Eisele (The Dale Earnhardt Story), anchors the story with the team’s measurable progress, but the film is also about the state of race relations in America at the height of the Great Depression. With lynchings of black men and women a common form of entertainment and black subjugation for many rural whites, the idea of talented and highly intelligent African-American young people learning to think on their feet during debates would seem almost a hopeless endeavor. But that’s not the way Tolson sees it, as his students serve themselves and the cause of racial equality in America with energetic arguments in favor of progressive government and non-violence as a viable social movement. There are some startling moments in this movie, particularly the sight of a man found lynched and burned to death, and an extraordinary moment in which we see black sharecroppers and white farmers engaged with Tolson in arguments about unionizing together. Forest Whitaker is outstanding as Farmer’s emotionally-reserved father, also a Wiley professor. This is the kind of film where one hopes two great actors such as the elder Whitaker and Washington will have a scene together, and when it comes it’s as powerful as one might hope. --Tom Keogh

Great Debaters [Special Collector's... DVD Techincal Details Cast: Denzel Washington, Damien Leake, Gregory Nicotero, Brian Smiar
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Running Time: 124 mins
UPC: 796019811583
Binding: DVD
Studio: Genius Products (TVN)
Release Date: 2008-05-13
Region Code: 1
Specs: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen

Language & Subtitles English (Unknown), English (Original Language),