Men of honor [blu-ray dvd] / Fox 2000 Pictures presents a State Street Pictures production, a George Tillman, Jr. film ; produced by Robert Teitel, Bill Badalato ; written by Scott Marshall Smith ; directed by George Tillman, Jr.
Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Hal Holbrook, David Keith, Michael Rapaport, Powers Boothe, Aunjanue Ellis, Charlize Theron. Based on the life of Carl Brashear. Originally released as a motion picture in 2000. Special features: Audio commentary by director George Tillman, Jr., actor Cuba Gooding, Jr., producer Robert Teitel and writer Scott Marshall Smith; trivia track; theatrical trailer.
Summary:
Born In 1931 to sharecropper parents, Carl Brashear decides to join the Navy. After watching the heroics of Billy Sunday, the White son of a sharecropper, Carl determines to become the Navy's first African-American diver. At the Bayonne, N.J., divers' training camp, Sunday is his instructor, and Brashear must endure hazing that verges on murderous. With Sunday and the camp's commander dead set against Brashear's graduating, he will have to use his physical prowess and steely determination to see him through. Carl and Billy's paths cross again when each needs rehabilitation - one from an injury, the other from bitterness.
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