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	Glory Road (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Glory Road is a 2006 film released on January 13, 2006.
		The film deals with the events of the 1966 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, in which Texas Western College coach Don Haskins led a team with an all-fl starting lineup, a first in NCAA history.
		Glory Road is also a street on the UTEP (formerly Texas Western College) campus which was renamed to commemorate the 1966 NCAA championship.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glory_Road_(film) (306 words)

	November 2004 \| blackfilm.com \| reviews \| film \| Glory Road
		Glory Road has its share of clichés and is fairly one dimensional character-wise, but nonetheless surprises as an absorbing film.
		While Glory Road is primarily the story of the fl players, it would have been more interesting to have the white characters explored as well.
		Glory Road is not on par with the great sports films, but is a worthwhile attempt to match them.
	www.blackfilm.com /20060106/reviews/gloryroad.shtml (514 words)

	"Glory Road" (2006) / review and/or viewer comments - Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		Glory Road is much more than a basketball story; it is a civil rights story where the basketball court becomes the back of the bus.
		Glory Road is not only about an incredibly talented team but also pays respect to a coach that took a chance against the norm, challenging the belief systems of the day.
		Glory Road is very well acted however two people steal the show: Jon Voight, who plays the extremely racist Kentucky State coach, and Derek Luke who steals the show as the outperforming star of the team.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2006/gloryroad2006.html (3176 words)

	Glory Road (2006): Reviews
		Glory Road tells the inspiring story of the underdog Texas Western basketball team, with history's first all African American starting lineup of players, who took the country by storm, surprisingly winning the 1966 NCAA tournament title.
		Glory Road is satisfying less for its virtuosity than for its sincerity, and also because it will acquaint audiences with a remarkable episode that had ramifications far beyond the basketball court.
		Glory Road treats history as if it were a 7th-grade social-studies text laid out in a 16-point font, getting the basics right without trying to evoke any of the details that would make it memorable.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/gloryroad (1602 words)

	Movie-List - Reviews - Glory Road
		Probably one of the greatest or maybe the greatest sports films of all time was the legendary basketball film “Hoosiers” from 1986.
		“Glory Road” chronicles the turbulent story of coach Don Haskins (Josh Lucas) who in 1966 led the first all-fl starting line-up in NCAA history to national basketball championship.
		The film depicts Haskins as a passionate coach who will stop at nothing to put together the best basketball team he can afford with the limited recruiting funds given to him by his university.
	www.movie-list.com /reviews.php?id=gloryroad (416 words)

	Glory Road
		GLORY ROAD is about more than a college basketball team in the mid-1960s playing its way to the championship: it is the true story of a coach and his team taking a stand against discrimination in order to play their best game.
		Glory Road, a stand-up-and-cheer basketball tale taken from real life, is a drama that, almost inevitably, falls short of its subject.
		Glory Road, the true-ish story of the first all-fl NCAA championship basketball team, throws down a 360 slam dunk in the face of racism.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/glory_road (1111 words)

	'Glory Road' Hits the Big Screen
		The Disney/Bruckheimer film is the story of coach Don Haskins, who led the 1966 underdog Texas Western College team to victory against an all-white Kentucky team and helped break down university barriers to fl athletes.
		While "Glory Road" is expected to be released in Traverse City Jan. 13, "something is in the works with Disney" for a special opening here, promised Carmike Cinemas Buyer Bryan Jeffries.
		Gartner said he is proud of the film's message and hopes the movie will be as popular in his home town as it promises to be elsewhere.
	www.record-eagle.com /2005/dec/30glory.htm (602 words)

	UGO.com Film/TV - Glory Road Review
		Director James Gartner's debut film opens with Don Haskins getting the coaching job at the small El Paso university, where he quickly realizes that none of his strong Caucasian prospects were likely to go to Texas Western, when they're being courted by schools like Duke and Kentucky.
		In Glory Road, Gartner tries to put us on the floor with the players, but it eventually becomes impossible to keep up with, not only who's winning, but who has the ball.
		Glory Road never lets the fear or the darkness hit the rim, falling into the predictable trap of being a PG-rated Disney film.
	www.ugo.com /channels/filmtv/features/gloryroad/review.asp (720 words)

	Film Blather: Glory Road
		Glory Road really does tell a remarkable true story, one more powerful and important than the sort of prototypical racial integration tale we were spoonfed in, say, Remember the Titans, if only because of its ultimate ramifications on the game of basketball, college athletics, and higher education.
		The film gets most of the easy things right, and the emotional resonance of certain moments might fool one into thinking that the entire thing was written and put together with some measure of skill.
		Films like Coach Carter and The Greatest Game Ever Played demonstrated just last year that most of the conventions that Glory Road tries to marshal are still alive, well and at filmmakers' disposal.
	www.filmblather.com /review.php?n=gloryroad (786 words)

	DVDFanatic Review: Glory Road (Widescreen Edition)
		Glory Road is not among these films, but it never reaches the heights of Friday Night Lights.
		Glory Road is held together by strong performances by Derek Luke, an entertaining and barely recognizable Jon Voight and Josh Lucas.
		Glory Road is presented in the new style of Disney DVD amaray cases.
	www.dvdfanatic.com /review.php?id=gloryroad (1656 words)

	Glory Road: Movie Review
		“Glory Road” is an overly manipulative sports cliché that provides little reason to rush to the theater.
		Sometimes, “Glory Road” is exactly where it should be; with the coach teaching his team that focus, discipline, and teamwork lead to success.
		Unfortunately, the film never manages to succeed as an exciting underdog movie or a commentary on the racial issues of the 60s.
	www.mustseeflix.com /index.jsp?movie_title=gloryroad.htm (867 words)

	Review Guy Online- Glory Road (2006) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The film, Glory Road, focuses on a Texas Western basketball team that was a constant underdog in 1965, and that had the audacity to be the first team to start five African-American players in 1966.
		The Texas Western squad dribbled down the road to glory in 1966 with seven African-American players added to their team, and went on to win the National Title that same year.
		This is a great film for the family, and one highly recommended for all.
	www.reviewguyonline.com /RGgloryroad.html (439 words)

	USCCB - (Film and Broadcasting) - Glory Road
		The inspirational film follows the blueprint of past Disney sports movies like "Remember the Titans" and "Miracle": No-nonsense coach, all about winning, molds underdogs into champs, while imparting locker-room life lessons.
		But Gartner's film is as much about bigotry as it is about basketball, and should appeal to even nonsports fans.
		And although short of a slam dunk, "Glory Road" has heart, which, as coach Haskins repeatedly drives home, is what truly determines a winner -- on the court or on the screen.
	www.usccb.org /movies/g/gloryroad.shtml (729 words)

	Glory Road - ComingSoon.net Film Database
		"Glory Road," from Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films, is based on the inspiring true story of the underdog Texas Western basketball team whose drive to win superceded some of the most bruising and difficult challenges during a point in U.S. history of massive cultural and philosophical turmoil.
		It was a time when, against all odds, the first all African American starting lineup of players took the country by storm and, in a surprise turn of events, won the 1966 NCAA tournament title.
		The film is directed by James Gartner, written by Christopher Cleveland & Bettina Gilois.
	www.comingsoon.net /films.php?id=5908 (187 words)

	Thunderstruck
		The movie we had been talking about was Glory Road, an intense and uplifting basketball film that is one part jock-flick and one part social commentary.
		The reason he was asking about his farm was because the film tells the remarkable story of the 1966 NCAA basketball championship game when the underdog Texas Western Miners beat the powerhouse University of Kentucky Wildcats.
		He continued: “I’d say that 80 percent of the movie is pretty accurate.” The troubling aspect about Glory Road is that when viewers discover that the two biggest gut-wrenching moments were “ Hollywood moments,” it leaves the audience feeling as though it had been emotionally manipulated.
	www.thunderstruck.org /gloryroad.htm (1144 words)

	Glory Road (2006): Joshua Lucas, Derek Luke, Mehcad Brooks, Emily Deschanel - PopMatters Film Review
		The film does suggest that Haskins "gets" racism and specifically, racist violence against his players (white fans throw trash at them as they enter arenas, graffiti is left on their motel room walls).
		As Riley and other players portrayed in the film remember, the Texas Western championship was a mixed blessing, as the players had to endure more abuse afterwards.
		Glory Road includes enough images of hard violence to show at least some of the costs for the Miners.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/g/glory-road-dvd.shtml (1399 words)

	/FILM - Noview Review: Glory Road
		Glory Road is a slice of integration nostalgia, telling the true story of the underdog Texas Western college basketball team, and the first all-fl starting lineup of players who won the 1966 NCAA tournament title.
		Glory Road is set in a time when race relations seemed simpler, when fl people were denied basic opportunities and the solution to racial divisions could be as easy as providing them.
		I can’t even fault it for being a round of self congratulation for white liberals who are looking backwards as a way of avoiding present day racial issues that all of their well-meaning efforts failed to resolve.
	www.slashfilm.com /article.php/20051204200612354 (453 words)

	Marin Independent Journal 12/12/05
		That song, "I Was There When It Happened," was written by the late Fern Jones, an obscure 1950s "rockabilly gospel" singer/songwriter and evangelist who is in the midst of being discovered through mainstream exposure from the movie, and with a quality-packaged re-issue of her one and only album.
		And, glory hallelujah, there is a local angle to this story.
		An excerpt from her book, also titled "The Glory Road," won a 2005 Marin Arts Council individual artist grant."I'm trying to place Mother in music history where she belongs, along with the other evangelists who really rocked," Garner said.
	thegloryroad.com /news/mij.htm (851 words)

	Flash Film Works - Glory Road
		For this film, we did numerous green screen television composites as well as crowd composites.
		For this shot, we took this footage shot at the airport and composited in many additional layers of crowd to make it appear that more people were present than their actually were.
		In several shots in the film, we had to take the production plates of the extras watching a "green screen" television and composite into them the footage of the basketball game.
	www.flashfilmworks.com /d-glory_road.htm (101 words)

	This Week's Attractions: Glory Road (Seattle Weekly)
		Glory Road celebrates the 1966 Cinderella triumph of the West Texas basketball team that boasted the nation's first NCAA starting lineup of fl players, but the more interesting victory in it belongs to Seattle Children's Theater veteran Josh Lucas, who plays coach Don Haskins.
		It's impossible to describe Glory Road without making it sound impossibly boring, but in fact, it passes the time quite painlessly and tugs heartstrings with a satisfying thwop.
		Glory Road — A slam dunk in a low hoop.
	www.seattleweekly.com /film/0602/glory.php (431 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - Glory Road (2006), James Gartner, Josh Lucas, Derek Luke, dvd review
		Glory Road tells the true story of Haskins and his college ball team, the first to use an all-African American starting lineup.
		As for the team, Glory Road brings out Derek Luke (Antwone Fisher) to portray the star player Bobby Joe Hill, and a band of rookies both fresh and vaguely familiar (both actors and basketball players) make up the rest.
		This is a film full of anger and shame without smacking of self-importance or superiority.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /2006/gloryroad.shtml (602 words)

	Glory Road (2006): Joshua Lucas, Tatyana Ali, Mehcad Brooks, Emily Deschanel - PopMatters Film Review
		All this mutual team devotion is in place by the time they arrive at the '66 NCAA finals, where they face the much better funded, all Caucasian University of Kentucky champions.
		Such observations allow the film's viewers to snicker at the folly of these ancient opinions.
		But Glory Road also includes enough images of hard violence to underline at least some of the costs for the Miners, not to mention their less well looked after peers.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/g/glory-road-2006.shtml (1091 words)

	Film Review ***: ...Glory Road... Worth Traveling - The Tech
		This is as true in “Glory Road,” the Hollywood retelling of the 1966 Texas Western College basketball team.
		The central figures of “Glory Road” are the coach of the team, Don Haskins (Josh Lucas) and the fl players he recruits and runs to exhaustion.
		But despite these shortcomings, “Glory Road” is an entertaining movie, and was well worth an hour and half of my life.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V125/N64/64Glory.html (743 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Glory Road
		One scene in the TV ads for Glory Road made me very leery of what Bruckheimer was doing.
		Glory Road doesn’t have any of the individual moments that humanized Hoosiers, The Rookie, and Miracle.
		Glory Road is readily available on DVD if you insist on watching it.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /52/glory.htm (1031 words)

	Amazon.com: Glory Road: Music: Various Artists,Alicia Keys,Trevor Rabin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Glory Road: My Story of the 1966 NCAA Basketball Championship and How One Team Triumphed Against the Odds by Don Haskins
		In the case of Glory Road, the soundtrack and movie brilliantly weaves the story of the Texas Western basketball team and the society it faced at home and on the road.
		Glory Road is by far the best sports movie produced for the big screen.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000CQQHDQ?v=glance (958 words)

	EpFilm.org - Independent Filmmaking in El Paso, Texas. Film, Video and Animation.
		Films from the Fringes of Cinema by Phil Hall.
		This is an indie film, Los Lonely Boys Cottonfields and Crossroads.
		The film recently recieved great reviews in the Statesman (four stars out of five) and are doing an indie platform release, which means actually traveling the film to different locations.
	www.epfilm.com (837 words)

	Points of Pride - Ferris State University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		26, 2006 - James Gartner, as one of the top directors of commercials in the country, can now add feature film making to his resume with Walt Disney Studios' smash hit, "Glory Road." Gartner, hand-picked for the job by fellow Michigander Jerry Bruckheimer, is a 1971 graduate of Ferris with a degree in Liberal Arts.
		"Glory Road" chronicles the story of the 1966 Texas Western College Miners basketball team.
		This team is best known for changing the face of collegiate athletics by starting an all-fl lineup.
	www.ferris.edu /news/pridepoints/gloryroad (112 words)

	CanMag- Movie Clips- Glory Road Unscripted
		However, even though the questions were supposed to be about Glory Road, a lot of them were aimed directly at Bruckheimer himself.
		One such question for Bruckheimer was not even for Glory Road but the original Pirates of the Caribbean.
		Glory Road tells the true story of the underdog Texas Western basketball team, with history's first all African American starting lineup of players, who took the country by storm, surprisingly winning the 1966 NCAA tournament title.
	www.canmag.com /news/4/3/2824 (385 words)

	Texas Western Basketball - Learn about Texas Western Basketball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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