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Actors: Bill Yoast: Will Patton Herman Boone: Denzel Washington Introduction: It’s an inspiring football film and an inspiring social drama. While it’s saddled with predictable elements, it also has tremendous strengths, benefiting from strong performances by the leads. Based on actual events that took place in 1971, this is about racial tensions in the U.S. south. Herman Boone is a Virginia high school football coach, as is Bill Yoast. During the painful period of racial integration at the beginning of the 1970s, the two join together with force, a school that had been all black and the other all white. When Herman Boone gets the job over Yoast as head coach of the school’s popular Titans football team, there are layers of complication and conflict – between the two men, among the players, and within the entire restless community. Herman Boone’s mission is to forge a winning team out of a group of boys divided by racial prejudice and intolerance. Having been given the position over coach Bill Yoast, who had several years' seniority and the suppor