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Release Date: 2006

Cast: Kip Weeks, Damaine Radcliff, Evan Jones, Emily Deschanel, Josh Lucas, Derek Luke, Mehcad Brooks, Tatyana Ali, Patrick Blanchard, Schin A.S. Kerr, Red West, Sam Jones III ...MORE

Cast: Kip Weeks, Damaine Radcliff, Evan Jones, Emily Deschanel, Josh Lucas, Derek Luke, Mehcad Brooks, Tatyana Ali, Patrick Blanchard, Schin A.S. Kerr, Red West, Sam Jones III, Austin Nichols, Alphonso McAuley, Samuel Garland, Jon Voight, Mitch Eakins ...LESS

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Glory Road is an American sports film directed by James Gartner, based on a true story dealing with the events leading to the 1966 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, in which the late Don Haskins – played by Josh Lucas – head coach of the Texas Western College led a team with an all-black starting lineup, a first in NCAA history. Newly appointed men's basketball head coach Don Haskins (Josh Lucas) from the Texas Western College in El Paso, not having many financial resources to recruit the most coveted high school athletes, decides to find the best players in the country... MORE

Glory Road is an American sports film directed by James Gartner, based on a true story dealing with the events leading to the 1966 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, in which the late Don Haskins – played by Josh Lucas – head coach of the Texas Western College led a team with an all-black starting lineup, a first in NCAA history. Newly appointed men's basketball head coach Don Haskins (Josh Lucas) from the Texas Western College in El Paso, not having many financial resources to recruit the most coveted high school athletes, decides to find the best players in the country regardless of race to form a team that can compete for a national championship. Some of the young men he and his assistants recruit, from places as far away as Indiana, Michigan and New York, possess a lot of talent, but are very raw when it comes to organized college basketball with its greater focus on defense and ball distribution. In the end, his Texas Western Miners team comprised seven black and five white athletes, a balance that raised eyebrows even at his own university. Haskins puts his players through a very tough training program, threatening to cut anyone who doesn't work as hard as he LESS