An inspirational movie “Men of Honor,” based on the life of Carl Brashear, a navy diver, will hit the theaters in November.

Starring in the film are Academy Award winning actors Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding, Jr., as the son of a Kentucky sharecropper who lets nothing stand in the way of his dreams.

Also starring are Charlize Theron, Hal Holbrook, David Keith, Michael Rapaport, Aunjanue Ellis and Powers Boothe.

The setting of Carl Brashear?s, journey is the little known and dangerous world of deep-sea diving in the U.S. Navy of the 1950s and 60s.

“Never quit?be the best,” his father had told him, and Carl, Cuba Gooding, Jr., takes those words to heart.

After he joins the newly integrated Navy, Carl spends two years writing a hundred letters before the service accepts his application for its dive school program.

Carl?s training officer Billy Sunday, Robert De Niro, wants no part of Carl or his ambitions.

Sunday, a celebrated Master Chief Navy Diver whose exploits as a troublemaker are as legendary as his accomplishments as a diver, relentlessly taunts and challenges Carl, expecting him to falter and quit. However, Carl has other ideas. His goal is clear and his determination is fixed. Nothing will stand in the way of his dream of becoming a Navy Diver. Not even Billy Sunday.

Years later, Carl suffers a crippling injury and Sunday unexpectedly joins forces with him to help buck Navy bureaucracy, overcome the loss of his leg and go on to make military history.

By the time he retires, Carl earns the esteemed titles of Master Diver and Master Chief, the Navy?s highest rank for an enlisted man.

Fox 2000 Pictures presents a State Street Pictures production, directed by George Tillman, Jr., and produced by Robert Teitel and Bill Badalato.

Bill Cosby and Stanley Robertson are the executive producers.

The film is written by Scott Marshall Smith and edited by John Carter, A.C.E.

Carl Brashear?s inspiring life story and indomitable spirit are legendary in Navy circles. Before retiring, he became the first African-American Master Diver, despite a crippling injury.