The great debaters
2008
DVD
Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
Item Details
Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- mixed
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
Target Audience Note: CHVR: PG.
Notes:
- Title from container.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 2007.
- Special features: Deleted scenes ; The great debaters: an historical perspective ; "That's what my baby likes" music video ; "My soul is a witness" music video.
- Director of photography, Philippe Rousselot ; editors, John Breinholt, Hughes Winborne ; music, Peter Golub, James Newton Howard ; costume designer, Sharen Davis ; production designer, David J. Bomba.
- Denzel Washington, Nate Parker, Jurnee Smollett, Denzel Whitaker, Jermaine Williams, Forest Whitaker, Gina Ravera, John Heard, Kimberly Elise, Devyn Tyler, Trenton McClain Boyd.
- DVD ; Dolby digital surround ; widescreen (2.35:1) presentation.
- For private home use only.
- Includes audio tracks in English and French with subtitles in English, French and Spanish.
Publisher or Distributor Number: 104294
Control Number: 523913
UPC: 065935816126
Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : Weinstein Company ; Montreal : Distributed by Alliance Atlantis, [2008]Subjects:
- African American college students -- Texas -- Juvenile films.
- Debates and debating -- Texas -- Juvenile films.
- Teacher-student relationships -- Juvenile films.
- Texas -- Juvenile films.
- Wiley College (Marshall, Tex.) -- Fiction -- Juvenile films.
Genre:
Other Authors:
- Alliance Atlantis (Firm)
- Black, Todd.
- Boyd, Trenton McClain.
- Cindy Marshall Productions.
- Eisele, Robert, 1948-
- Elise, Kimberly, 1971-
- Forte, Kate.
- Harpo Films.
- Heard, John, 1946-2017.
- Parker, Nate, 1979-
- Porro, Jeffrey.
- Ravera, Gina.
- Roth, Joe, 1948-
- Smollett-Bell, Jurnee, 1986-
- Tyler, Devyn.
- Washington, Denzel, 1954-
- Weinstein Company.
- Whitaker, Denzel, 1990-
- Whitaker, Forest.
- Williams, Jermaine, 1982-
- Winfrey, Oprah.