Men of Honour is about a man called Carl Brashear(played by Cuba Gooding Jr) who leaves home and goes to the Navy. Taking his race as a Black Man in a full White Navy an irrelevance he is committed and intent on achieving his goals. Having to be around a racist Navy and a very harsh, rude and aggressive man in charge, Master Chief Billy Sunday(played by Robert De Niro), Chief Billy Sunday is not convinced that Carl Brashear has the skills or abilities to do some of the most dangerous and toughest tasks such as deep sea diving etc, but Carl Brashear tries to prove he does. Being in a full White Navy and having a very unkind Chief, there are some divers such as Snowhill(played by Michael Rapaport) who supports Carl Brashear. Carl has to push himself a lot to achieve his goals and his strengths and abilities seem to be very high in Tests but he continues to do this to achieve his goals. Chief Billy Sunday gets arrested for violently attacking a Navy Soldier in a pub, when he is let out, his wife Gwen Sunday(played by Charlize Theron) gives him warnings and chances to change his attitude and personality. When let out Chief Billy Sunday has found out that Carl Brashear has achieved high ranks and now is a Chief but has also lost one of his legs but is using a Prosthetic leg to help him walk. Chief Billy Sundays attitude and personality have changed, he starts to speak to him kindly and now supports him. There are some high ranking people who want to put Carl Brashear and his skills down, but when in court he has to prove in a heavy diving suit with the support of Billy Sunday that he's able to walk to be able to get transferred to Los Angeles. The court aren't convinced and try to undermine Carl Brashear, but Billy Sunday argues with them and has a go at them knowing Carl Brashear is able. So when in a heavy diving suit Carl Brashear and with a prosthetic leg he has to get up, he also has to walk 12 steps towards Billy Sunday. This is a very difficult task for Carl Brashear but he manages to do it and passes, making himself and his wife and son happy as well as others such as Billy Sunday. This film Men of Honour is an absolutely brilliant film full of intensity, action and some amazing diving scenes, the film also has some absolutely brilliant acting by Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding Jr, Charlize Theron. Aunjanue Ellis. Hal Holbrook, Michael Rapaport, Powers Boothe, David Keith, Carl Lumbly and Lonette McKee.