Remember the Titans is a sports movie that deals with our nation’s past.  The movie is set at a time when our country was going through integration, and it deals with one school’s struggle to overcome differences in order to play football.  It is based on a true story that happened at T. C. Williams High School a local high school in northern Virginia.

One of the key moments in the movie comes when coach Boone, played by Denzel Washington, takes his team to Gettysburg College for hell week before the season starts.  While there, the team struggles to come together and play as a team.  Boone decides that in order to help the kids realize that they are not so very different, he takes them on an early-morning run through Gettysburg, and reminds them of the tragic battle that took place there.

As the movie goes on, the team realizes that in order to be successful, they have to set aside their prejudices and differences and come together as a team in order to win football games.  However, it doesn’t stop there.  They not only have to overcome their own prejudices, but they have to deal with pressure from parents, the community, and other schools who disagree with the integration of the football team.