A daring visual approach powers a gorgeous film about an ugly chapter in history.

Mr. Earl survives but doesn't return to Nickel and is replaced by someone who is crueler to the boys and beats Elwood during his second visit to the White House.

In the mid-1960s, at the age of 16, Gary Hay was ripped away from his parents and sent to the Arthur G Dozier School for Boys ...

In “Nickel Boys,” RaMell Ross reinvents ... Other characters rarely meet our gaze: a White prison trusty (Fred Hechinger) with whom the boys resell the academy’s supplies to local merchants ...

Elwood meets and befriends Turner (Brandon Wilson), and the two create a bond that will be of great value to them as they endure the prison-like conditions at Nickel, while Elwood, inspired by the ...

A 2012 NPR story highlighted the “White House Boys,” a group of hundreds of men sharing horror stories about the goings-on in Dozier. Mass graves were also found on the site. “Nickel Boys ...