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The Great Debaters [H 264/AAC/MP4 DVDrip Unisonband]

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Title................: The Great Debaters Runtime.............: 123 Min.

Year.................: 2008 IMDb Number.........: tt0427309

IMDb Rating..........: 7.7/10 MPAA................: PG-13
Genre................: Drama Release Date........: May 13, 2008

Source...............: NTSC DVD Studio..............: TVN

Size.................: 1.07 GB Xbox 360/PS3........: Yes

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Format.........: H.264/AAC/MP4 Encoder: ......: x264

Bitrate........: 1127 kbps Resolution.....: 853x364 (Anamorphic)

Framerate......: 23.976 fps Ratio..........: 2.35:1

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Format...............: AAC Language.......: English

Bitrate..............: 127 kbps Sample Rate....: 44.1 khz

Channels.............: 2 (Stereo) Subtitles......: None


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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
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MPAA: Rated PG-13 for depiction of strong thematic material including violence and disturbing images, and for language and brief sexuality.


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