All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Lucas Black, ranked

In 1945, sportswriter Wendell Smith suggests that Brooklyn Dodgers owner Branch Rickey consider Jackie Robinson as the black ballplayer Rickey is looking for. When Durocher is suspended by Happy Chandler, the Commissioner of Baseball, for actions in his personal life, leaving the Dodgers without a manager to start the regular season, Burt Shotton agrees to manage the team.

As preseason practice begins for the Permian High School football team in August 1988, the town of Odessa, Texas has high expectations for the players and their coach Gary Gaines to win a state championship with their star running back James Boobie Miles. In the next game during the start of district play, Permian gets blown out as Winchell struggles with consistency in his increased role and the second-string running back gets hurt.

In 1989, Anthony Swoff Swofford, whose father served in the earlier Vietnam War (1961-1975), attends United States Marine Corps recruit training before being stationed at Camp Pendleton, California. While Swofford feigns illness to avoid his responsibilities, a lifer, Staff Sergeant Sykes, takes note of his potential and orders Swofford to attend his Scout Sniper course.

In 1949, young cowboy John Grady Cole’s maternal grandfather dies. After Alejandra’s father takes her away, Cole and Rawlins are arrested by Mexican police and taken to jail, where they again encounter Blevins, who has been accused of stealing a horse and of murder, and is killed by a corrupt police captain.

Freshly discharged from the hospital and penniless, Nat Banyon, a young drifter who lost his parents, embarks on a journey to find work on a farm in Wyoming. During his travels, he stumbles upon a car accident and heroically rescues the driver, a peculiar elderly man named Herman Finch.