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.

Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida. This is around 40 minutes from Dothan and over an hour to the Florida coast and Tallahassee. The boy’s reform school operated in the Wiregrass ...

Hundreds of people who say they suffered physical or sexual abuse at two state-run reform schools in Florida ... housed at what is now known as the Dozier School for Boys, most of them for minor ...

Dozier went by several different names in its history. It was the Florida State Reform School when it first opened in 1900. A second campus opened five decades later. By then it was the Florida ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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