The Nickel Academy is a school based loosely on the real-life Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, an abusive labor camp in Florida that hundreds of boys had to endure in the 1960s — many of them Black.

In “Nickel Boys,” we witness Elwood’s close but complicated friendship with Turner (Brandon Wilson), a disillusioned teenager well aware of Nickel Academy’s savage breaking of Black bodies ...

Nickel Boys (now streaming on MGM+) is a tough but essential watch. The story of two Black teenage boys interned in a brutal reform school in Jim Crow-era 1960s Florida, the film is director ...

"Nickel Boys" leads the nominations at the 25th annual Black Reel Awards with 13, followed by "The Piano Lesson" with 12.

At Nickel, Black kids who ask questions always suffer and sometimes disappear. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "NICKEL BOYS") UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #3: (As character) You mess up, and we have a place for you ...

The "Nickel Boys" film was adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about Black teens at a corrupt reform school. Watch Party Newsletter What to watch Win $100 💵📚 Celeb ...

Nickel Boys is filmmaker RaMell Ross' first narrative feature, and it's a period piece primarily situated in a cinematic landscape depicted in an untold number of films: the 1960s Jim Crow South.

Nickel Boys won a leading six awards at the 2025 Black Reel Awards, including the group's marquee Outstanding Film Award. Skip to main content.

Elwood arrives at the Nickel Academy, as it’s called, after he’s unfairly caught up in an injustice. It’s 1962 when a sympathetic teacher Mr. Hill (Jimmie Fails) taps Elwood — a sober ...