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THE GREAT DEBATERS

2007 Film4, 9pm

An inspirational teacher at a historically black college in the US leads his charges to glory against the odds. The underdogs are a black debating team from 1930s

Texas who fight to compete with the nation’s (white) finest. It stars Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker and, oddly, Denzel Whitaker (named after the former, no relation to the latter), and though the plot feels a little formulaic, this true story is a winner. Washington himself directs.

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