12 Mighty orphans
DVD - 2021
The true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great Depression, went from playing without shoes, or even a football, to playing for the Texas state championships. Over the course of their winning season, these underdogs and their resilient spirit became an inspiration to their city, state, and an entire nation in need of a rebound, even catching the attention of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The architect of their success was Rusty Russell, a legendary high school coach who shocked his colleagues by giving up a privileged position so he could teach and coach at an orphanage. Few knew Rusty's secret: that he himself was an orphan. Recognizing that his scrawny players couldn't bea...t the other teams with brawn, Rusty developed innovative strategies that would come to define modern football.
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- Genres
- Feature films
Fiction films
Sports films
Historical films
Biographical films
Film adaptations
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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Culver City, CA :
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
[2021]
- Language
- English
French
Chinese
Korean
Portuguese
Spanish
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- Item Description
- Based on the book by Jim Dent.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2021.
Wide screen (2.39).
Special features: deleted scenes. - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD, wide screen (2.39); Dolby digital 5.1; region 1.
- Audience
- MPAA rating: PG-13; for violence, language, some suggestive references, smoking and brief teen drinking.
- Production Credits
- Music, Mark Orton ; editor, James K. Crouch ; director of photography, David McFarland.