The film, as well as the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel it was based on, drew inspiration from the real-life Dozier School for ...

This is the real story behind the Oscar-nominated film Nickel Boys, a film inspired by a novel rooted in pain, horror and trauma that survivors still experience today.

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.

A lot of brutality, a lot of horror, a lot of death,” said Middleton ... Allegations of abuse have hung over the Dozier school since soon after it opened in 1900, with reports of children ...

which confirmed the historic and recent allegations of abuse and violence at Dozier. That was just the start of the process to fully uncover the horrors of the reform school. In 2012, the state of ...

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.

"Nickel Boys" is based on the historic reform school in Florida, "The Dozier School for Boys", which ... friendship as they try to survive the horrors of the school and its corrupt administrators.