A Most Beautiful Thing

A Most Beautiful Thing

Stay strong. Be true. Go the distance.

2020 · 95 min · ★ 6.4 · Documentary

A chronicle of the first African American high school rowing team in America made up of young men, many of whom were in rival gangs from the West Side of Chicago, coming together to row in the same boat.

Directed by Mary Mazzio

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