Woodlawn (2015) on Netflix
PG20152h 3mBiographyDramaHistorySport
In 1973, Woodlawn High School in Birmingham, Alabama, is desegregated and Tony Nathan joins its predominantly white football team. Tandy Gerelds asks his players to let shared anger unite them.
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Plot summary
Woodlawn High School in Birmingham, Alabama, opens its doors to black students in 1973, and Tony Nathan, a gifted athlete, becomes one of several black players on the school's football team, which is predominantly white. Coach Tandy Gerelds urges his squad to channel the anger stirred by repeated violent incidents into unity, yet the black and white players still clash, on the field and off it. When a riot breaks out on campus, Gerelds agrees to let Hank Erwin, a chaplain who travels with sports teams, address the group. Erwin's speech moves almost every player there to commit his life to Jesus Christ, and the team prays together. Gerelds stays out of that moment and does not know what to make of it.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Woodlawn (2015)
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- Running back Tony Nathan attended Woodlawn High School in Birmingham, Alabama during the early 1970s and became a model student and the first black football superstar in Alabama history, playing with other black students on the mainly white team under coach Tandy Gerelds when racial tensions were very high.
