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Men of Honor (released in the UK and Ireland as Men of Honour) is a 2000 American drama film directed by George Tillman Jr. and starring Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding Jr. The film is inspired by the true story of Master Chief Petty Officer Carl Brashear, the first African American master diver in the United States Navy.
Men of Honor: Directed by George Tillman Jr.. With Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding Jr., Charlize Theron, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. Carl Brashear is an ambitious sharecropper who joins the U.S. Navy to become the world's first black master diver.
Start your free trial to watch Men of Honor and other popular TV shows and movies including new releases, classics, Hulu Originals, and more. It’s all on Hulu. A black man wages war on the racist standards of the U.S. Navy in the 1950s in this stirring drama.
Carl Brashear (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is an ambitious sharecropper who joins the U.S. Navy to become the world's first black master diver. But as he works through...
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Nov 10, 2000 · Men Of Honor. 128 minutes ‧ R ‧ 2000. Roger Ebert. November 10, 2000. 4 min read. Carl Brashear was quite a guy. A black sharecropper’s son without a high school education, he signed up for the Navy right after World War II.
Men Of Honor. Cuba Gooding Jr. and Robert De Niro give powerful performances in this acclaimed, gripping military drama inspired by the real life story of Carl Brashear.
A riveting tale of bucking the odds and overcoming discrimination, Men Of Honor tells the story of Carl Brashear, the son of a Kentucky sharecropper who join...
Carl Brashear, born in 1931 to sharecroppers, joins the Navy and, after watching the heroics of Billy Sunday, the White son of a sharecropper, determines to become the Navy's first African-American diver. At the Bayonne, N.J., divers' training camp, Sunday is his instructor, and Brasher must endure hazing verging on the murderous.
Release Date: November 10, 2000The story ultimately revolves around two "men of honor"; their relationship, their individual and joint failures and triumphs....
Nov 9, 2000 · Against formidable odds -- and an old-school diving instructor embittered by the U.S. Navy's new, less prejudicial policies -- Carl Brashear sets his sights on becoming the Navy's first African-American master diver in this uplifting true story.
