TV Guide: Denzel Whitaker

Listing: No Way Out

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:00:00 -0500

Mon Dec 14 11:00 AM SPIKE Ray and Riley are taken hostage while investigating a shootout in a normally calm Las Vegas neighborhood. They are held at gunpoint by a 14-year-old boy who is hiding out in a basement that is being used as a drug-making lab. His severely injured cousin is with him, and Ray tries to help the young man before he bleeds to death while Riley plots their escape.

Listing: The Great Debaters

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:15:00 -0500

Wed Dec 9 09:15 AM SHOe

Video: Clip 1

Trailer Addict — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:29:54 -0500

A clip from The Great Debaters where the debate coach (Denzel Washington) test their knowledge.

Video: Trailer

Trailer Addict — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:29:54 -0500

Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and inspired by a true story, The Great Debaters chronicles the journey of a brilliant but volatile coach (Denzel Washington) who uses the power of words to shape a group of underdog students from a small, modest black college in East Texas into an elite debate team while challenging the social mores of the time, culminating with a groundbreaking invitation to debate Harvard's championship team.

Video: 'The Great Debaters' - Trailer No. 1

AOL Moviefone — Thu, 01 May 2008 07:07:30 -0500

Drawing inspiration from the true story of a temperamental debate coach who molded the students of a small East Texas college into a formidable team that gave even Harvard's elite squad a run for their money, Denzel Washington's The Great Debaters features the director himself as the ambitious educator, and Forest Whitaker as the resentful father of a student whose loyalties now lie almost exclusively with his coach. Melvin B. Tolson (Washington) is the kind of educator who truly recognizes the remarkable power of knowledge. An outspoken Wiley College professor who boldly challenged the discriminatory Jim Crow laws of the 1930s, Tolson's recognizes that his young debate students possess the spark of a new generation. Convinced that they could invoke great change if given the confidence and tools needed to do so, the tireless educator implores his students to take responsibility for the future while furtively attempting to protect them from his clandestine role as an organizer for the S

Video: The Great Debaters

Apple Trailers — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:13:54 -0500

Inspired by the remarkable story of Wiley College’s winning debate team of the early 1930s. Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South, THE GREAT DEBATERS chronicles the journey of the Wiley College debate team—coached by the brilliant and passionate professor Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington). It was Tolson’s recognition that the power of knowledge is the greatest advantage of all, which brought these students from underdogs to victors in a time when more than the odds were against them.

Video: American Gangster

Apple Trailers — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:22:54 -0500

Genre: Drama Cast: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Josh Brolin, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Carla Gugino, John Hawkes, Ted Levine, RZA, T.I., Yul Vazquez, Directed by: Ridley Scott, Writer: >Steve Zaillian, Producers: Brian Grazer, Executive Producers: Nick Pileggi, Steve Zaillian, Branko Lustig, Karen Kehela Sherwood, James Whitaker, Michael Costigan, Synopsis: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Brian Grazer, Steve Zaillian and Ridley Scott team to tell the true juggernaut success story of a cult hero from the streets of 1970s Harlem in American Gangster. Nobody used to notice Frank Lucas (Oscar winner Washington), the quiet driver to one of the inner city's leading black crime bosses. But when his boss suddenly dies, Frank exploits the opening in the power structure to build his own empire and create his own version of the American Dream. Through ingenuity and a strict business ethic, he comes to rule the inner-city drug trade, flooding the streets with a purer product at a better price