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The Great Debaters was released in theaters on December 25, 2007. The release of the film coincided with a nationally stepped-up effort by urban debate leagues to get hundreds of inner-city and financially challenged schools to establish debate programs. [7] [8] Cities of focus included Denver, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.
As a debate coach at the historically black Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, Tolson led a team that pioneered interracial college debates against white colleges in the segregated South. [2] This work was depicted in the 2007 biopic The Great Debaters, produced by Oprah Winfrey, starring and directed by Denzel Washington as Tolson. [2] [3]
Both students are taken under the wing of the debate-team coach, Charlie Nichols (Scheider), who was a star debater in his youth. The team eventually wins a chance to debate the issue of abortion against Harvard in front of the Supreme Court. Along the way, the students learn lessons about life, love, friendship, and politics.
The Debaters is a Canadian radio comedy show currently hosted by Steve Patterson. It airs on CBC Radio One. Each episode typically features two debates between two pairs of debaters. The topics are deliberately comedic, with the winner chosen by audience reaction at the end of the debate.
The 2007 motion picture The Great Debaters was based on an article about the Wiley College 1935 debate team that appeared in the Spring 1997 issue. [5] As of 2007, the magazine had circulation of 500,000, 80 percent of which was free distribution via schools, black churches, and other organizations. [4]
He argued that debate, as a form of public speaking, required debaters to publicly commit to their positions within a debate round. Quoting Brooks Quimby , a prolific debate coach at Bates College , Murphy claimed that debaters needed to be "men and women of principle" rather than "men and women trained to take either side at the flip of a coin."
This category is for films relating to high school debate. Pages in category "Films about high school debate" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
The Great Debate (Canadian TV series), a Canadian television series (1974–1983) "The Great Debate", a song by Dream Theater from their 2002 album Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence; The Great Debate (American TV series), a VH1 program (2009) The Great Debate (British TV series), a Sky News programme (2022–present)