The Great Debaters
Movie • 2007 • Drama
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The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American college students into a historical powerhouse that took on the Harvard elite.
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a child is hit once in an argument with his father
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At the very beginning, a man is shown pushing his wife
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It happens approximately 20 minutes in, when they’re driving along a track.
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a Black man inside a police station is shown with a beaten face
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There’s a lynching
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briefly in a debate scene, and it is rebutted
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