We Are Marshall - Original Theatrical Trailer (2006)
When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.
It depicts the aftermath of the 1970 plane crash that killed 37 football players on the Marshall University Thundering Herd football team as well as five coaches, two athletic trainers, the athletic director, 25 boosters and a crew of five. It also addresses the rebuilding of the program and the healing that the community undergoes.
Matthew McConaughey stars as head coach Jack Lengyel, with Matthew Fox as assistant coach William "Red" Dawson, David Strathairn as University President Donald Dedmon and Robert Patrick as ill-fated Marshall head coach Rick Tolley. Then-governor of Georgia Sonny Perdue has a cameo role as an East Carolina University football coach.
MOVIE FACTS:
The name of the movie is based on a cheer performed by students and players at the university, which is also featured prominently in the movie.
In the movie, newspaper headlines are from the combined Sunday newspaper of the Huntington Herald-Dispatch.
In the movie, a radio announcer calls Marshall's opponent the "Xavier Pirates." In real life, the school's nickname was, and still is, the Xavier Musketeers. "Pirates" is the nickname of East Carolina University, Marshall's opponent in their final game before the crash.
Some scenes were filmed in Huntington, West Virginia and Kenova, West Virginia.
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