Remember the Titans (2000) on Netflix
PG20001h 53mBiographyDramaSport
In 1971 Alexandria, Virginia, Herman Boone takes over as head coach of a newly integrated high school football team, keeping Bill Yoast as his assistant. Black and white players clash at camp.
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Plot summary
In 1971, the school district of Alexandria, Virginia, names Herman Boone head coach of the football team at the newly consolidated T. C. Williams High School, hoping the choice will ease racial tensions. Bill Yoast, the coach Boone replaces and a Hall of Fame nominee, at first refuses to stay on as his assistant. He changes his mind when his white players threaten to sit out the season unless he coaches them. Boone then takes the squad to a training camp at Gettysburg College, where the black and white players fight among themselves, and a school board member tells Boone that losing even one game will cost him his job.
Cast
- Krysten Leigh Jonesas Nicky Boone
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Remember the Titans (2000)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film shows Coach Boone waking the team at 3:00 a.m. at camp to go for a run; that did not occur, and neither did his speech at Gettysburg. The team did go on a tour of Gettysburg, although it was not as dramatic as portrayed in the film.
SPOILER
In reality the Marshall game was the toughest game T. C. Williams played all year, won on a fourth down come-from-behind play at the very end as the film shows, but it was not the state championship: that was a 27-0 shutout of Andrew Lewis High School, played at Victory Stadium in Roanoke.SPOILER
Gerry Bertier's car accident took place on 11 December 1971, after the season-ending state championship game rather than before it. He had been at a banquet honoring the team's undefeated season, borrowed his mother's new 1971 Chevrolet Camaro and lost control; the cause was a mechanical failure in the engine mounts, not the broadside crash the movie shows.- The seven-minute instrumental "Titans Spirit" outgrew the film: it has been used on numerous sports telecasts, particularly those on NBC, which has used it during its closing credits for each Olympic Games since 2002, as well as the montage ending their 12-year run of NBA coverage in 2002.
