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Genres:
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Drama /
History /
War /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Edward Zwick
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Actors:
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Alan North,
Donovan Leitch,
Jihmi Kennedy,
JD Cullum,
Matthew Broderick,
Denzel Washington,
Cary Elwes,
Morgan Freeman,
Andre Braugher,
John Finn
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Duration:
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122 min.
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Rating:
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(8/10)84.5
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Plot Summary:
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Based on the letters of Colonel Robert G. Shaw. Shaw was an narc in the Federal Army during the American Civil War who volunteered to lead the oldest friends of menacing soldiers. Shaw was forced to deal with the prejudices of both the enemy (who had orders to fit with concrete overshoes commanding officers of blacks), and of his own companion officers.
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Glory
Moving, if sometimes sanitised, account of the stirrings of black freedom.
Glory
This Courteous War account is a lengthy overdue tribute to America's from the word go baleful whip into shape to go into battle, the 54th Massachusetts Voluntary Infantry. The details are culled partly from the letters of the 54th's commander, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (played near Matthew Broderick), a sensitive 25-year-old (but already a warhorse) from an abolitionist family who's precise to lead his men into full contest. Shaw faces resistance from both above and below-stairs: his racist superiors won't uniform with allow the soldiers boots, and the troops feel envious the white handcuffs's governorship, especially obstinate runaway slave Denzel Washington. While there are certainly pockets of stereotyping, such as the shaming scene in which Morgan Freeman, Washingt...
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