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Synopsis

Unconquered is the story of Richmond Flowers Jr, the son of the pro-civil rights Attorney General in Alabama during segregation in the 1960s.The film starts with him as a scrawny young boy dreaming of becoming an American Football player despite having flat feet and being small for his age.The rest of the film is him a few years later when he has grown into someone with the potential to be an athlete but who suffers abuse and isolation from his peers at school for his father's liberal views which go against the views of the majority of the white people in the state where he lives.He becomes friends with Cindy, who is an orphan and lives with foster parents and is ostracised simply for being poor, and Arnie who has unrequited love for her and is also an outcast partly as he is seen as a geek but mainly for his father publishing a liberal newspaper.The story tells of the three friends' struggle against the other pupils at school, but also theirs and their families' struggles against the wider community and those that oppose the Civil Rights movement, including the KKK.It also charts Richmond Jr's rise to stardom as an athlete and a football player.This film is based on a true story but states at the beginning that some events and characters have been added for the benefit of the dramatisation.