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Name: Debate Team
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2008
Duration: 90 min

1h 30m runtime

20081h 30mDocumentary

Documentary film with a runtime of 90 minutes, released in 2008. Presented in English.

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Runtime1h 30m

Minutes90

One SittingYes

With Break1h 42m

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Debate Team is a documentary exploring the weird subculture of competitive college debate. Competitors battle at 360 words per minute, hauling around mountains of evidence called "cards" and nearly every debate ends in global nuclear annihilation. In 2005, some 200 teams converged on San Francisco State to compete in the National Championship. The documentary follows four teams, from Michigan State, Harvard, West Georgia, and Berkeley in their quest for the national title. What emerges is not simply the chronicle of the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, but a more disturbing examination into the nature of competition itself and the American fetish with championships and champions.

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Runtime1h 30m

Can Finish TonightYes

One SittingYes

With Break1h 42m

Movie Facts

Release Year2008

Runtime1h 30m

LanguageEnglish

GenresDocumentary

DirectorB. Douglas Robbins

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