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African American college students Texas Drama African American college teachers Texas Drama Anarene (Tex. : Imaginary place) Drama Debates and debating Texas Drama Man-woman relationships Drama Married people Drama Teenage boys Drama Texas Drama Texas In motion pictures Wiley College (Marshall, Tex.) DramaSummary: Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2008Summary: Sixteen-year-old rebel Bliss Cavendar, miserable living in a small Texas town with her beauty pageant-obsessed mother, secretly joins a roller derby team under the name "Babe Ruthless," and her life gets better, although infinitely more confusing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WHICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WHISummary: A bittersweet drama of the social and sexual mores in small-town 1950s Texas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999