Glory

original title:
Glory
country / year of production:
USA / 1989
original length:
122 min. , color
premiere:
15 December 1989
genre:
melodrama
based on:
Lincoln Kirstein. Lay This Laurel. New York: Eakins Press, 1973.
director:
Edward Zwick
film script:
Kevin Jarre
producer:
Freddie Fields
cinematographer:
Freddie Francis
editor:
Steven Rosenblum
composer:
cast (role):
Matthew Broderick (Colonel Robert Gould Shaw ) , Matthew Broderick (Private Trip ) , Cary Elwes (Major Cabot Forbes ) , Morgan Freeman (Sergeant Major John Rawlins ) , Andre Braugher (Corporal Thomas Searles ) , Matthew Broderick , Denzel Washington , Cary Elwes , Morgan Freeman , Andre Braugher
more:
plot synopsis:
Colonel Robert G. Shaw, an officer in the Federal Army during the American Civil War, has volunteered to lead the first company of black soldiers. Shaw was forced to deal with the prejudices of both the enemy (who had orders to kill commanding officers of blacks), and of his own fellow officers.
keywords:
volunteers , racism , infantry , massacre
war:
American Civil War or War of Secession (1861-1865)
literature:
Robert Burgoyne. Film Nation. Hollywood looks at U.S. History. Minneapolis: University of Minneaposta Press, 1997.

Heike Bungert. "Glory and the Experience of African-American Soldiers in the Civil War. An Attempt at Historical Film Analysis". In: Amst 40 (1995), 2, 271-282.
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availability:
VHS NTSC, DVD, CD