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The Great Debaters

THE GREAT DEBATERS
The Great Debaters
The Great Debaters

Professor Melvin Tolson, a brilliant but volatile debate team coach, uses the power of words to shape a group of underdog students from a small African American college in the deep south into a historically elite debate team. A controversial figure, Professor Tolson challenged the social mores of the time and was under constant fire for his unconventional and ferocious teaching methods as well as his radical plitical views. In their pursuit for excellence, Tolson's debate team receives a groundbreaking invitation to debate Harvard University's championship team.

  • Biographical Drama

  • Directed By:

    Denzel Washington

  • Written By:

    Robert Eisele

  • Cast:

    Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker

  • Year:

    2007

"A rouser, a stunner, almost a jubilee of emotion and suspence by the old standards of Hollywod melodrama, circa the time the actual events themselves too place"
- Stephen Hunter (Washington Post)