The Great Debaters - 2 Disc Collector's Edition

Drama

Denzel Washington	Mel Tolson
Jurnee Smollett	Samantha
Denzel Whitaker	James Farmer Jr.
Jermaine Williams	Hamilton Burgess
Nate Parker	Henry Lowe
J.D. Evermore	Captain Wainwright
Forest Whitaker	Dr. James Farmer Sr.
Gina Ravera	Ruth Tolson
John Heard	Sheriff Dozier
Kimberly Elise	Pearl Farmer
Devyn A. Tyler	Helen Farmer
Damien Leake
Gregory Nicotero
Brian Smiar

Director	Denzel Washington
Producer	Joe Roth; Todd Black; Molly Allen; Oprah Winfrey; Kate Forte
Writer	Robert Eisele; Jeffrey Porro

The true story of Melvin Tolson (Denzel Washington) and the debate team he started at the historically black Wiley College in 1935. Tolson guides an all-black debate team made up of a rebellious and experienced academic, the precocious teenage son of Wiley College's President, and a lone ambitious female member. We follow the students on a string of debating victories throughout the South, leading up to a debate against Harvard College. On the way, the debate team becomes one of the first black debate teams to face and beat a white institution while learning valuable lessons about discrimination and inequality in the South.