We Are Marshall Movie
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Synopsis of the We Are Marshall Movie:
A true story of tragedy, hope, and resilience comes to the screen in this sports drama. Huntington, WV, is home to Marshall University, a school where college football is a way of life. Huntington is also a town that learned to deal with tragedy in the fall of 1970 when the Marshall University Football Team, the "Thundering Herd" boarded an airliner to return home after a football game in North Carolina.
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The jet crashed into a hill due to bad weather, and 75 members of Marshall's football squad and athletic staff died that night. The Marshall University plane crash / accident dealt a crippling blow to the city of Huntington, as well as Marshall's faculty and student body, and university president Donald Dedmon (David Strathairn) considered abandoning the school's football program. But instead Coach Jack Lengyel (Matthew McConaughey) was recruited from Ohio's College of Wooster to rebuild Marshall's football program. Lengyel was not naïve about the task ahead of him, and working beside Red Dawson (Matthew Fox), an assistant coach who narrowly missed the doomed flight and was one of the program's only survivors, he came to understand his job was not just to put a team on the field, but help a college and a community heal their wounds from the tragic accident. Together Lengyel and Dawson turned a handful of rookies and second-string players into a competitive team who in 1971 showed the world what they could do in a legendary game against Marshall's rivals, Xavier University. Produced with the cooperation of Marshall University and filmed in part on their campus, We Are Marshall also stars Ian McShane, Anthony Mackie, and January Jones.
Besides books, you will also find the We Are Marshall Soundtrack and a We Are Marshall Coaster Set.
The We Are Marshall Movie was released on DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray in the United States on September 18, 2007.
We Are Marshall Soundtrack
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We Are Marshall Coaster Set
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