The Great Debaters (2007)

The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American college students into a historical powerhouse that took on the Harvard elite.

The movie The Great Debaters, released in 2007, features 17 songs from artists like Alvin Youngblood Hart & Sharon Jones, Marian Anderson, David Berger & The Sultans of Swing and Alvin Youngblood Hart . What is your favorite song from The Great Debaters?

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Songs from The Great Debaters

My Soul is a Witness

Alvin Youngblood Hart & Sharon Jones

Begr?ssung

Marian Anderson

Rock and Rye

David Berger & The Sultans of Swing

How Long Before I Can Change My Clothes?

Alvin Youngblood Hart

Delta Serenade

David Berger & The Sultans of Swing

Step It Up & Go

Alvin Youngblood Hart (as Alvin Youngblood Hart) & Teenie Hodges

I Ain't Got Nowhere to Travel

The Delmore Brothers

I Would Do Anything for You

Art Tatum

The Shout

Art Tatum

When the Saints Come Marching In

the Grambling State University Marching Band Quartet

Shortenin' Bread

the Grambling State University Marching Band Quartet

Scoodle Um Skoo

Charlie Papa Jackson (as Papa Charlie Jackson)

Run... Run / All Hid

Nate Parker

Stompin' the Blues

Wiley College Fight Song

the members of The Grambling State University Marching Band

Up Above My Head I Hear Music in the Air

Sharon Jones , Alvin Youngblood Hart (as Alvin Youngblood Hart) with Billy Rivers & The Angelic Voices of Faith

Two Wings

Alvin Youngblood Hart , Sharon Jones with Billy Rivers & The Angelic Voices of Faith

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