Swank Motion Pictures, Inc.

Dennis Quaid, Rob Brown, Omar Benson Miller
Universal Pictures; Directed by Gary Fleder
Rated PG; 130 minutes; 2008

Based on the incredible true story, this film follows college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy. Davis was recruited by the Syracuse Orangeman and proceeded to break down one barrier after another on his way to becoming an icon for the burgeoning civil rights movement dividing America in the early 1960s.