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Product Information An heroic life gets a suitably dramatic retelling in George Tillman, Jr.'s docudrama MEN OF HONOR, based on the true story of Carl Brashear, the first African American to become a United States Navy master diver. The film employs the conventional yet pleasurable against-all-odds narrative. Carl Brashear (played with noble grace by Cuba Gooding Jr.) is the son of a degraded Southern sharecropper. Determined to succeed in the vocation he believes he was born for, Brashear enlists in the navy. Once there, however, the determined young man finds his dream inaccessible--thwarted by the forces of institutional and personal racism. When, after a long and difficult struggle, he is finally allowed into diving school, he finds himself under the authority of Billy Sunday (Robert De Niro), a former master diver whose injured lung has left him permanently above water. Sunday becomes simultaneously Brashear's most vicious adversary and most loyal supporter, motivating him to succeed. The story that follows is a highly emotional wave of ups and downs: Brashear overcomes one barrier only to be met by the next, even larger one. MEN OF HONOR is at times heartbreaking and painful to watch, but the triumphant ending makes for a deeply satisfying payoff. Product Identifiers UPC 0024543037774 Product ID (ePID) 53336245 Product Key Features Director George Tillman Jr. Edition Pan Scan; Sensormatic Rating R Format DVD Movie/TV Title Men of Honor Genre Drama Additional Product Features Film Country USA Region Code Region 1 Display Format Pan Scan; Sensormatic Number of Discs 1 Signal Standard Dvd Leading Role Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding Jr. Release Date 20060606