WFSU Documentary & Public Affairs is available ... 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 ...

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

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 ...

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 fictional film, as well as the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel it was based on, drew inspiration from the real-life Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida, which was shut down in 2011.

"Nickel Boys" is based on the historic reform school in Florida, "The Dozier School for Boys", which was notorious for abusive treatment of students. It's the story of Elwood Curtis, a young ...

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 ...

“Nickel Boys” is the third piece in his filmography. His directorial debut, the 2018 documentary ... school. They face brutal abuse by the wardens at a school modeled on the Dozier School ...