Rocks With Wings

Rocks With Wings

2001 · 113 min · ★ 8.0 · Documentary

Jerry Richardson lands his first teaching job in Shiprock, New Mexico. But this depressed corner of the Navajo Reservation is no place for a 24-year old African-American man eager to change the world, or is it? After surviving a near fatal accident, he decides to stay. He then inherits the girl's losing basketball team

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