The Great Debater, I should take that hog since I paid for it. #movie #ShineByKingsleyking

Poet and Professor Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington) teaches at the predominately black Wiley College in 1935 Texas. He decides to start a debate team, something nearly unheard of at a black college. While at first he butts heads with the influential father (Forest Whitaker) of one of his best de… More

Release date: December 25, 2007 (USA)

Director: Denzel Washington

Story by: Robert Eisele; Jeffrey Porro

Nominations: NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture, More

Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Weinstein Company

Box office: $30.2 million