Glory
1989
***
Director: Edward Zwick
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman
A dry but compelling story about Colonel Robert Gould Shaw who led the first entirely coloured unit in the Civil War. This worthy story is about black men, but it's told from a white man's point of view. It's hard to ídentify with this many characters, which becomes an issue when the men start falling like flies. The screenplay is based on Shaw's personal letters and two novels.
