This film relates a true history: the first black man who became an officer in the U.S. Navy despite a lot of traps: he is a black man from a poor family in the Missouri State, then he was despised by the others men who wants to be a diver. The chief of the school is a racist man. De Niro, his officer has an ambivalent relationship with this "nigger". At last, after a dangerous mission, he loses his leg. Despite this and the officers, helped by De Niro,like a father, He wins. It is a lesson for everybody.
Review of Men of Honor
