According to his great effort throughout his professional life as a professor at Whiley college in Texas, Melvin B. Tolson, has gained fame, as he is always trying to improve education, change students mind and thought, and make their awareness, so he sets up the first debate team in 1935.
The Great Debaters is well-acted, deeply felt and delivers a positive message about the importance of education.
Las Vegas CityLife
March 17, 2008
Enough fictional liberties were taken with The Great Debaters to make it fit neatly on the inspirational genre shelf, but it's grounded in enough reality to excuse Eisle's we-shall-overcome contrivances
There's a real organic sense in the film of how young minds can be nurtured and energized way beyond sex, sports and slacker attitude, into caring and evolving kid works-in-progress. And how debating can be pretty cool too, who knew?
Despite its transparent manipulations, the film is more decent than it deserves to be, particularly when the kids step up to the podium and get passionate
