This is the real story behind the Oscar-nominated film Nickel Boys, a film inspired by a novel rooted in pain, horror and ...

The film is based on the atrocities that went on at the Dozier School for Boys in Florida ... was only 13 when he said his mother sent him to the reform school. Trauma from the abuses he endured ...

Through immersive filming techniques, it also sheds light on the horrors that occurred at the Dozier School for Boys—a real-life reform school in Florida—while highlighting the resilience of the human ...

The Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, once the largest juvenile reform institution in the country, operated in Florida for 111 years. During that time, it became infamous for its horrific abuses ...

I was at Dozier in 1967-68 during segregation and after integration for over a year. I experienced firsthand the conditions of this so-called reform school, and I know its horrors were not simply ...

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

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 ...