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The Great Debaters DVD profile, including DVD release date, selected special features and more about the The Great Debaters DVD.
DVD Release Date: May 13, 2008
Length: 123 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for depiction of strong thematic material including violence and disturbing images, and for language and brief sexuality
About the Movie The Great Debaters on DVD:
Denzel Washington stars in and directed this drama based on a 1930s true story. Forest Whitaker is also in the film. Washington plays the main character, Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at small, all-black Wiley College in Marshall, Texas. Tolson believes that one way for him and his students to combat the racism they endure is to excel at debating. He handpicks a four-person team and coaches it through a series of debates, culminating in a 1935 competition against Harvard. (One of the Wiley debaters, James Farmer Jr., went on to become a leader in the civil-rights movement.)
The Great Debaters DVD - Selected Special Features:
- Widescreen
- Available in Two-Disc and Single-Disc DVD Editions
The Great Debaters DVD Cover Art - © Genius Products and The Weinstein Company
