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Warner Bros. Pictures
details
Studio: Fox 2000
Release Date: Nov 10, 2000
Running Time: 129 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Chronicles the inspirational, true-life exploits of Carl Brashear, who became the Navy's first African-American Master Diver. Brashear runs into formidable opposition in the form of Billy Sunday, a rebellious senior officer and celebrated Master Chief Navy Diver. But it is Sunday who ultimately helps Brashear, the son of a Kentucky sharecropper, overcome a crippling injury, fight racism and bureaucracy, and make military history.
cast + crew
Director
2nd unit director
Billy Sunday
Carl Brashear
Gwen Sunday
Jo Brashear
Mr Pappy
Snowhill
Captain Pullman
Captain Hartigan
Rourke
Isert
screenplay
from life story
Producer
Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
reviews
December 10, 2000
Potent acting enlivens this true story of a black Navy diver fighting 1950s racism President Clinton led the standing ovation at the White House for this true story of Carl Brashear, a sharecropper's son from Kentucky who became the first African-American certified by the Navy as a master chief diver. With Cuba Gooding Jr. playing Brashear at full tilt and Robert De Niro getting in his licks as Billy Sunday, the bigot instructor who becomes Carl's unlikely mentor, Men of Honor is built to push…
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