As its Christmas Day release approaches, Denzel Washington’s “The Great Debaters,” based on the true story of the 1930s Wiley College debate team continues to generate publicity.

Drawing inspiration from the true story of a temperamental debate coach who molded the students of a small East Texas college into a formidable team that gave Harvard’s squad a run for their money in the 1930s, Denzel Washington’s The Great Debaters features the director himself as the ambitious educator, and Forest Whitaker as the resentful father of a student whose loyalties now lie almost exclusively with his coach.

Here is the trailer.

A profile which was aired recently on “Entertainment Tonight.”