Glory (1989 film)
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Glory is a 1989 American epic historical war drama film directed by Edward Zwick about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the Union Army's earliest African American regiments in the American Civil War. It stars Matthew Broderick as Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the regiment's commanding officer, and Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, and Morgan Freeman as fictional members of the 54th. The screenplay by Kevin Jarre was based on the books Lay This Laurel (1973) by Lincoln Kirstein and One Gallant Rush (1965) by Peter Burchard and the personal letters of Shaw. The film depicts the soldiers of the 54th from the formation of their regiment to their heroic actions at the Second Battle of Fort Wagner.
Glory was co-produced by Tri-Star Pictures and Freddie Fields Productions, and distributed by Tri-Star Pictures in the United States. It premiered in limited release in the United States on December 15, 1989, and in wide release on February 16, 1990, grossing $27 million worldwide on an $18 million budget. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards and won three, with Washington winning Best Supporting Actor in addition to receiving the corresponding Golden Globe, while Freddie Francis was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography. The film won awards from the Kansas City Film Critics Circle, the Political Film Society, and the NAACP Image Awards.
Plot
During the American Civil War, Captain Robert Shaw is injured at Antietam and returns home to Boston on medical leave. Shaw accepts promotion to Colonel commanding the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, one of the first Black regiments in the Union Army. He asks his friend, Cabot Forbes, to serve as his second in command. Their first volunteer is a mutual friend, Thomas Searles, a bookish, free African-American. Other recruits include John Rawlins, Jupiter Sharts, Trip, and a mute boy drummer.
After the Emancipation Proclamation, the men of the 54th are told the Confederacy will execute any black soldiers captured in Union uniform along with their white officers. Despite this threat, the 54th's recruits turn down an offer to be honorably discharged and undergo rigorous training under Sergeant-Major Mulcahy.
Trip is arrested while AWOL. After having him flogged, Shaw learns Trip left camp to replace his worn out shoes. Shaw confronts the base's racist quartermaster, who is holding back their supplies. When the men realize the Federal government pays Black soldiers about three-quarters the salary of white soldiers, Trip encourages the men to refuse their pay. Shaw tears up his pay stub in solidarity. In recognition of his mentorship of the younger soldiers, and his advice to Shaw regarding the thoughts and morale of the men, Rawlins is promoted to Sergeant-Major.
Once trained, the 54th comes under the command of General Charles Harker and is ordered by Colonel James Montgomery to sack and burn Darien, Georgia. Shaw initially refuses, but agrees under threat of being relieved. Tired of seeing his men used for manual labor and raids on civilians he advises Harker and Montgomery he will report their profiteering to the war department unless the 54th is given a combat assignment.
The regiment goes into battle at James Island, South Carolina and repels a Confederate attack. Thomas is wounded in the action but saves Trip's life. Shaw offers Trip the honor of bearing the regimental flag in battle. He declines, not believing the war will result in a better life for slaves.
General George Strong informs his regimental commanders of a major campaign to secure a foothold at Charleston Harbor, and describes the initial attack at Morris Island which requires a frontal assault on Fort Wagner, whose only landward approach is a strip of open beach. Shaw volunteers the 54th. The night before the battle, the Black soldiers conduct a religious service, give thanks and seek God's help. The next morning the 54th deploys for the assault to the cheers of Union troops who had scorned them earlier.
The 54th suffers heavy losses in a daytime assault, and takes cover in the dunes until sundown. Attempting to rally his stalled men, Shaw is killed. Trip lifts the flag, and leads survivors toward the fort, brandishing the flag until he is mortally wounded. Forbes leads a party into the fort's outer defenses where Charlie Morse is killed, and Thomas is wounded. A small number of survivors, including Forbes, Rawlins, Thomas, and Jupiter, come face to face with a Confederate gun and the screen fades to black, implying their death by canister shot.
After sun up the next day, Confederate soldiers remove the bodies of Union soldiers from the beach, raise the Confederate flag over the fort, and bury the corpses in a mass grave. Shaw's body slides into the excavation and comes to rest next to Trip's.
An epilogue reveals that although Fort Wagner was never captured, the courage displayed by the 54th led to the Union Army accepting thousands of Black men for combat—a move that President Abraham Lincoln credited with helping to turn the tide of the war.
Cast
- Matthew Broderick as Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
- Denzel Washington as Private Trip
- Cary Elwes as Major Cabot Forbes
- Morgan Freeman as Sergeant Major John Rawlins
- Andre Braugher as Corporal Thomas Searles
- Jihmi Kennedy as Private Jupiter Sharts
- Cliff DeYoung as Colonel James Montgomery
- Alan North as Governor John Albion Andrew
- John Finn as Sergeant Major Mulcahy
- Mark Margolis as 10th Connecticut Soldier
- RonReaco Lee as Mute Drummer Boy
- Donovan Leitch as Captain Charles Fessenden Morse
- Bob Gunton as General Charles Garrison Harker
- Jay O. Sanders as General George Crockett Strong
- Raymond St. Jacques as Frederick Douglass
- Richard Riehle as Quartermaster
- JD Cullum as Henry Sturgis Russell
- Christian Baskous as Edward L. Pierce
- Peter Michael Goetz as Francis Shaw
- Jane Alexander as Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw (uncredited)
Production
Development and script

The title of the film recalls the "glory" for which the July 28, 1863, edition of the weekly Columbus Enquirer reported that First-Sergeant Robert John Simmons, mortally wounded at Battery Wagner, came to fight (Simmons himself wrote, in an account of the Battle of Grimball's Landing that was published in the New York Tribune on December 23, 1863: "God has protected me through this, my first fiery, leaden trial, and I do give Him the glory").<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Lincoln Kirstein had first approached Lloyd Fonvielle to write the script. Fonvielle was too in awe of Kirstein to collaborate effectively with him and introduced Kirstein to his friend, Kevin Jarre, who had worked on Rambo: First Blood Part II; they were originally going to write the script together, but Fonvielle got tied up in another project, leaving Jarre to write the script on his own.<ref name=fonvielle/>
A Civil War buff since he was a child, Jarre met with Kirstein and talked about the 54th. As Jarre stated: "Lincoln’s interest was deeper. It related to his whole philosophy about surrendering yourself to something bigger, some larger cause. He’d always wanted to make a movie about the 54th".<ref name=lat/>
Jarre's inspiration for writing the film came from viewing the monument to Colonel Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in Boston Common. His screenplay was based on several sources, including the books Brave Black Regiment - History of the fifty-forth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (1891) by the 54th's Captain Luis F. Emilio, Lincoln Kirstein's Lay This Laurel (1973), and Peter Burchard's One Gallant Rush (1965), as well as the personal letters of Robert Gould Shaw.<ref name="Canby">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="ebert">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Jarre moved into Room 421 at the Gramercy Park Hotel and worked around the clock, writing the script in a few weeks on spec.<ref name=lat/><ref name=fonvielle/>
Kirstein showed the script to producer James Ivory of Merchant Ivory Productions.<ref name=lat/> Ivory liked the script but wanted Ruth Prawer Jhabvala to give it a rewrite. According to Fonvielle, Kirstein then got up, shook Ivory’s hand warmly, pulled him to his feet, said, “Jim, thanks so much for coming down,” and ushered him out the front door.<ref name=fonvielle>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The script was then sent to director Bruce Beresford, who committed to do it and brought in producer Freddie Fields, who then set up a deal at Columbia Pictures,<ref name=lat/> but when David Puttnam left Columbia, pre-production had stopped. Beresford left the project, and Fields then took the script to Tri-Star. The studio agreed to do the film and hired Edward Zwick as director.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name= lat>Template:Cite news</ref>
Filming
Exterior filming took place primarily in Massachusetts and Georgia. The culminating battle scene of Fort Wagner was filmed on the beaches of Jekyll Island, Georgia. Opening scenes meant to portray the Battle of Antietam show volunteer military reenactors filmed at a major engagement at the Gettysburg battlefield. The scenes depicting the Battle of Grimball's Landing were filmed at Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Later in the war, the 54th Massachusetts did fight at the Battle of Olustee, but it is not depicted in the movie. Zwick did not want to turn Glory "into a black story with a more commercially convenient white hero".<ref name=TCM>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Actor Morgan Freeman noted: "We didn't want this film to fall under that shadow. This is a picture about the 54th Regiment, not Colonel Shaw, but at the same time the two are inseparable".<ref name=TCM /> Zwick hired the writer Shelby Foote as a technical adviser. Foote later became widely known for his contributions to Ken Burns' PBS nine-episode documentary, The Civil War (1990).<ref name=TCM />
On February 16, 1989, the body of a middle-aged man was discovered on the film's set in Savannah, about a day after his death. Described as having a Middle Eastern appearance, with no apparent signs of suffering a violent death, he was never positively identified.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Music
{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} GloryTemplate:'s original motion picture soundtrack was released by Virgin Records on January 11, 1990. The score for the film was composed and orchestrated by James Horner in association with the Boys Choir of Harlem.<ref>Template:Discogs master</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Jim Henrikson edited the film's music, while Shawn Murphy mixed the score.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Historical sources
Monograph
A nonfiction study of the regiment first appeared in 1965 and was republished in paperback in January 1990 by St. Martin's Press under the title One Gallant Rush: Robert Gould Shaw and His Brave Black Regiment. The book, by Peter Burchard, expands on how the 54th Massachusetts developed as battle-ready soldiers.<ref name="GallantR">Template:Cite book</ref> Summarizing the historical events, the book provides events surrounding the aftermath of the first Black Union regiment and how it influenced the outcome of the war.<ref name="GallantR" />
Release
Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 95%, based on 57 reviews, with an average rating of 8/10. The site's consensus states: "Bolstered by exceptional cinematography, powerful storytelling, and an Oscar-winning performance by Denzel Washington, Glory remains one of the finest Civil War movies ever made."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, the film holds a score of 78/100, based on 22 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Film critic Vincent Canby's review in The New York Times stated, "[Broderick] gives his most mature and controlled performance to date ... [Washington is] an actor clearly on his way to a major screen career ... The movie unfolds in a succession of often brilliantly realized vignettes tracing the 54th's organization, training and first experiences below the Mason-Dixon line. The characters' idiosyncrasies emerge".<ref name="Canby" /> Roger Ebert from the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, calling it "a strong and valuable film no matter whose eyes it is seen through".<ref name="ebert" /> He believed the production design credited to Norman Garwood and the cinematography of Freddie Francis paid "enormous attention to period detail".<ref name="ebert" />
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Peter Travers of Rolling Stone was not impressed at all with the overall acting, calling Broderick "catastrophically miscast as Shaw".<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Alternatively, Richard Schickel of Time described the picture by saying, "the movie's often awesome imagery and a bravely soaring choral score by James Horner that transfigure the reality, granting it the status of necessary myth".<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Desson Howe of The Washington Post, pointed out some flaws that included mentioning Broderick as "an amiable non-presence, creating unintentionally the notion that the 54th earned their stripes despite wimpy leadership".<ref name="howe">Template:Cite news</ref>
James Berardinelli writing for ReelViews, called the film "without question, one of the best movies ever made about the American Civil War", noting that it "has important things to say, yet it does so without becoming pedantic".<ref name="reelview">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Rating the film four stars, critic Leonard Maltin wrote that it was "grand, moving, breathtakingly filmed (by veteran cinematographer Freddie Francis) and faultlessly performed", calling it "one of the finest historical dramas ever made".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film a thumbs up review, saying, "like Driving Miss Daisy, this is another admirable film that turns out to be surprisingly entertaining". He thought the film took on "some true social significance" and felt the actors portrayed the characters as "more than simply black men". He explained: "They're so different, that they become not merely standard Hollywood blacks, but true individuals".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref>
American Civil War historian James M. McPherson stated the film "accomplished a remarkable feat in sensitizing a lot of today's black students to the role that their ancestors played in the Civil War in winning their own freedom".<ref name=McPhersonBooknotes1994>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Accolades
The film was nominated and won several awards in 1989–90.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> A complete list of awards the film won or was nominated for are listed below.
| Award | Category | Nominee | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 62nd Academy Awards<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Denzel Washington | Template:Won |
| Best Art Direction | Norman Garwood, Garrett Lewis | Template:Nom | ||
| Best Cinematography | Freddie Francis | Template:Won | ||
| Best Film Editing | Steven Rosenblum | Template:Nom | ||
| Best Sound | Donald O. Mitchell, Gregg Rudloff, Elliot Tyson, Russell Williams II |
Template:Won | ||
| 41st ACE Eddie Awards<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> |
Best Edited Feature Film | ———— | Template:Won |
| 44th British Academy Film Awards<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> |
Best Cinematography | Freddie Francis | Template:Nom |
| British Society of Cinematographers Awards 1990<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> |
Best Cinematography | Template:Won | |
| Casting Society of America Artios Awards 1990<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> |
Best Casting for Feature Film, Drama | Mary Colquhoun | Template:Nom |
| 47th Golden Globe Awards<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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Best Motion Picture – Drama | Freddie Fields | Template:Nom |
| Best Director | Edward Zwick | Template:Nom | ||
| Best Screenplay | Kevin Jarre | Template:Nom | ||
| Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | Denzel Washington | Template:Won | ||
| Best Original Score | James Horner | Template:Nom | ||
| 33rd Grammy Awards<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> |
Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television |
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| Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards 1989<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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Best Film | ———— | Template:Won |
| Best Director | Edward Zwick | Template:Won | ||
| Best Supporting Actor | Denzel Washington | Template:Won | ||
| NAACP Image Awards 1992<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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Outstanding Motion Picture | ———— | Template:Won |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor | Denzel Washington | Template:Won | ||
| 1989 National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Awards<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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Best Picture | ———— | Template:Nom |
| 1989 New York Film Critics Circle Awards<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> |
Best Supporting Actor | Denzel Washington | Template:Nom |
| 1990 Political Film Society Awards<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> |
Human Rights | ———— | Template:Nom |
| Writers Guild of America Awards 1989<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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Best Adapted Screenplay | Kevin Jarre | Template:Nom |
American Film Institute Lists
Box office

The film premiered in cinemas on December 14, 1989, in limited release within the US. During its limited opening weekend, the film grossed $63,661 in business showing at three locations. Its official wide release began in theaters on February 16, 1990.<ref name="BoxOfficeMojo"/> Opening in a distant eighth place, the film earned $2,683,350 (~$Template:Format price in Template:Inflation/year) showing at 801 cinemas. The film Driving Miss Daisy soundly beat its competition during that weekend opening in first place with $9,834,744.<ref name=BoxOfficeResults>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The film's revenue dropped by 37% in its second week of release, earning $1,682,720. For that particular weekend, the film remained in 8th place screening in 809 theaters not challenging a top five position. The film Driving Miss Daisy, remained in first place grossing $6,107,836 in box office revenue.<ref name=BoxOfficeResults2>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Glory went on to top out domestically at $26,828,365 (~$Template:Format price in Template:Inflation/year) in total ticket sales through a 17-week theatrical run.<ref name=BoxOfficeMojo/> For 1989 as a whole, the film would cumulatively rank at a box office performance position of 45.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Home media
Following its release in theaters, the film was released on VHS video format on June 22, 1990.<ref name=Amazon>Template:Citation</ref> The Region 1 DVD of the film was released in the United States on January 20, 1998. Special DVD features include: interactive menus, scene selections, 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen and 1.33:1 full screen versions, along with subtitles in English, Italian, Spanish and French.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> A Special Edition DVD of the Film was released on January 30, 2001.
A special repackaged version of Glory was also officially released on DVD on January 2, 2007. It includes two discs featuring: widescreen and full screen versions of the film; Picture-in-Picture video commentary by director Ed Zwick and actors Morgan Freeman and Matthew Broderick; a director's audio commentary; and a documentary entitled, The True Story of Glory Continues narrated by Morgan Freeman. Also included are: an exclusive featurette entitled, Voices of Glory, an original featurette, deleted scenes, production notes, theatrical trailers, talent files, and scene selections.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The Blu-ray disc version of the film was released on June 2, 2009. Special features include: a virtual civil war battlefield, interactive map, The Voice of Glory feature, The True Story Continues documentary, the making of Glory, director's commentary, and deleted scenes.<ref name=Empire/> The film is displayed in widescreen 1.85:1 color format in 1080p screen resolution. The audio is enhanced with Dolby TrueHD sound and is available with subtitles in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.<ref name=Empire>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> A UMD version of the film for the Sony PlayStation Portable was also released on July 1, 2008. It features dubbed, subtitled, and color widescreen format viewing options.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Retrospective response
In 2019, on the film's 30th anniversary, Glory was re-released in over 600 theaters in the U.S.<ref>Glory director Ed Zwick explains how he worked to avoid 'a white savior narrative', By Lauren Huff Published on July 19, 2019 Entertainment Weekly website. </ref> There were many positive reviews noting its artistic impact. One article noted "the legacy of Zwick’s depiction of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment extends well beyond a 30th anniversary showcase. As a film both about the shared sacrifice of the men of the 54th and the work they left undone .... Glory is a distinctly American story—one so compelling that it has become part of the common curriculum in U.S. history classes across the nation."<ref>Glory and the Legacy of the Most Graceful Civil War Movie, Edward Zwick reflects on the legacy of Glory 30 years later, and how the film's meaning evolved even while making it. By David Crow, July 16, 2019 denofgeek.com</ref>
Historical accuracy
- Aside from Shaw, none of the other members of the regiment seen in the movie are real people.<ref name=B&G>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- The film portrays the 54th as having significant numbers of former slaves. In real life, the regiment was composed mostly of freedmen already living in the North, although some came from Canada and the West Indies.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
|CitationClass=web }}</ref> Many of these freed men were from prominent families, including two sons of Frederick Douglass, one of whom, Lewis, became the Sergeant Major.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
- The film portrays Shaw as accepting the commission to command the 54th quickly, when in reality he initially rejected the Governor's commission, not wanting to leave his regiment and questioning whether the position would advance his career in the army.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Although Shaw was an abolitionist, he nevertheless expressed racist viewpoints toward Black people, repeatedly referring to them by racial slurs in his letters.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>Template:Original research inline
- The regiment did not struggle with being equipped properly. As a favored project of the Massachusetts governor, the regiment was provided everything it required from the outset.<ref name=B&G />
- In the movie a soldier is whipped. Flogging was not permitted in the Union army and no such event ever occurred involving the USCT.<ref name=B&G />
- In terms of the unequal pay, Shaw had already been informed that Black soldiers would only receive $10 while in South Carolina, and protested to his father and to the governor, not by tearing up his voucher.<ref name=B&G /> This issue was not resolved at the time as shown in the film, and problems arising from the unfair pay continued for the remainder of the war.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Although not depicted in the film, Shaw married Annie Kneeland Haggerty just before the regiment departed for service in South Carolina.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- The soldiers are depicted as celebrating Christmas in the snow, however the 54th began recruitment in February 1863, and Shaw died at Fort Wagner in July 1863, meaning there was no possibility of Christmas during that period.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- In the final assault on Fort Wagner, the 54th is shown attacking southward, with the ocean on their left. In reality, they attacked northward with the ocean on their right.<ref name=B&G /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Although the post-script claims that Fort Wagner never fell to Union troops, this is inaccurate as Confederate troops abandoned the fort after bombardment and shelling from the Union Navy in September 1863.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
- Although the fictional Cabot Forbes is portrayed as being Shaw's best friend and second-in-command, the real second-in-command was Edward Hallowell, who became commander of the 54th after Shaw's death.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Charles Garrison Harker was ranked Major General in the film. In reality, he never attained that rank nor was involved in the campaigns around Charleston. Additionally, the real life Harker was only 25 in 1863, not in his early 40s as portrayed in the movie.
See also
- Denzel Washington filmography
- List of films featuring slavery
- List of films and television shows about the American Civil War
- 1989 in film
- Chester "Bromley" Hoke
References
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