Examines Civil Rights-era America through the prism of basketball at historically black colleges and universities.
Direction
Klores weaves 40+ interviews into seamless oral history.
Editing
Grainy game footage hits harder than any CGI ever could.
Director
Dan Klores
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Klores spent four years securing rights to rare game footage from segregated newspapers that originally refused to cover Black teams.
The film's 2008 ESPN debut reportedly caused multiple NBA players to demand HBCU workouts—directly influencing DeMarcus Cousins' later advocacy.
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