MARIANNA, Fla (WDHN) — The story of the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys has haunted the Wiregrass and Florida panhandle for decades. A story that is now being brought to the silver screen.

Nickel Boys” presents a history detached from the popular understanding of American society while serving as a powerful ...

This building dubbed the white house by survivors is the main location where children at the Arthur G. Dozier school for boys were beaten, abused and even killed. Over 100 children died here at ...

A movie based on north Florida's shuttered Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys has received two Oscar nominations for the 2025 Academy Awards. The film, "Nickel Boys," is an adaptation of a Pulitzer ...

Based on a Colson Whitehead novel, the Oscar-nominated movie dramatizes the story of the Florida School for Boys, which traumatized children as young as 5 for more than a century ...

It's inspired by the harrowing true story of the now-shut down Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida. “Nickel Boys” is nominated for best picture and best adapted screenplay.

RaMell Ross’s "Nickel Boys" is an Oscar-nominated film adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, inspired by the real-life horrors of the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys.

The film adapts Colson Whitehead's award-winning novel, a fictional portrayal of the Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, ...

Dozier School for Boys in the Florida panhandle. The bespectacled guard, identified by DJJ as 23-year-old Alvin Speights, shuffled past a bolted-down steel table — one of three — then stopped.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — "Nickel Boys" is one of the films that may win this year's Best Picture award on Sunday at Hollywood's biggest night, the Oscars. However, to St. Petersburg resident ...

Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Nickel Boys, is based on the harrowing true story of a hellish reform school, Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Florida, at which more than ...