The Great Debaters

Release Date:

Dec 25, 2007

MPAA Rating:

PG-13

Running Time:

2:07

Genre:

Docudrama

Director:

Denzel Washington

Cast:

Denzel Washington	Mel Tolson
Forest Whitaker	Dr. James Farmer Sr.
Nate Parker	Henry Lowe
Jurnee Smollett	Jurnee Smollett
Denzel Whitaker	James Farmer Jr.
Jermaine Williams	Hamilton Burgess
Gina Ravera	Ruth Tolson
John Heard	Sheriff Dozier
Kimberly Elise	Pearl Farmer
Devyn Tyler	Helen Farmer
Trenton McClain Boyd	Nathaniel Farmer

Producers:

Todd Black , Kate Forte , Oprah Winfrey , Joe Roth , Bob Weinstein , Harvey Weinstein , David Crockett

Writers:

Robert Eisele

Language:

English

Official Website:

http://www.thegreatdebatersmovie.com/

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Poet and professor Melvin B. Tolson 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 influential father of one of his best debators, eventually he is able to form a team of strong-minded, intelligent young students, and they become the first black debate team to challenge Harvard's prestigious debate champions.

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