Glory (1989)

Celebrating 30 Years of Summer Classics on the Big Screen!

In 1989, there hadn’t been that many major films about the Civil War from the perspective of the soldiers — at least not since the end of the era of the Western. Fewer dealt in any meaningful way with the political environment that produced the war, beyond the brother-versus-brother human drama. And almost none even broached the idea of Black Americans fighting to end their slavery.

Screenwriter Kevin Jarre was inspired by a memorial to the 54^th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in Boston Common. The 54^th was the first formal unit of the Union Army to be made up entirely of African-American enlisted men; Jarre said that until that moment, it had never occurred to him that African-Americans had fought for their own freedom. The white officers of the 54^th do most of the storytelling in Glory, for better or worse, but brilliant performances from Matthew Broderick, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman and an OSCAR-winning Denzel Washington come together in a stirring if bitterly overdue tribute to heroism, sacrifice and brotherhood.

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