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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 57 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 20, 1998
- Originally Released: 1989
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes & Morgan Freeman | |
Performer: | Andre Braugher, Donovan Leitch, John Finn, J.D. Cullum, Alan North, Bob Gunton, Cliff De Young, Christian Baskous, RonReaco Lee, Peter Michael Goetz, Richard Riehle & Jay O. Sanders | |
Directed by | Edward Zwick | |
Edited by | Steven Rosenblum | |
Screenplay by | Kevin Jarre | |
Composition by | James Horner | |
Produced by | Freddie Fields | |
Director of Photography: | Freddie Francis |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1989 -
Best Cinematography: Freddie Francis
Academy Awards 1989 -
Best Sound: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1989 -
Best Supporting Actor: Denzel Washington
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/4 --
one of the great war films and perhaps the greatest film ever made about the American Civil War
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Q Network Film Desk
Rating: 3.5/5 --
A visceral, astounding war film, intelligently told.
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Film4
...Beautifully acted, pageantlike....[The] cast is superior....This is a good, moving, complicated film...
New York Times
A pretty watchable and always interesting period film, well photographed by English cinematographer Freddie Francis.
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Chicago Reader
...GLORY is an eloquent, heart-tugging Civil War epic....Remarkable as a period piece and for Freddie Francis's vivid cinematography....Splendid...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 4/5 --
This is a good, moving, complicated film.
New York Times
Rating: 3.5/4 --
"Glory" is most memorable for some quieter scenes... that capture more elusive aspects of its story - and that help audiences to grasp the underlying significance of what the 54th achieved.
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Times-Picayune
Product Description:
GLORY recounts the bravery of a group of Civil War soldiers often overlooked by history--the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts, a troop of free black men who fought to help win liberty for their enslaved brothers. Based on the historical novels ONE GALLANT RUSH by Peter Burchand and LAY THIS LAUREL by Lincoln Kirstein and the letters of Robert Gould Shaw, the film follows the youthful Colonel Shaw (Matthew Broderick) as he takes responsibility for readying these soldiers for battle. Shaw, a privileged young Boston Brahman, finds the job harder than expected because many of the men balk at taking orders from him. Private Trip (Denzel Washington) is especially resistant to Shaw's leadership, but over time the two come to an understanding as they endure the hardships of the war. On July 18, 1863, Shaw volunteers the 54th for the honor of leading the charge against Ft. Wagner, a mission that means almost certain death, with Trip carrying the regiment's colors into battle. This gritty and realistic vision of the horrors of war is a moving and critical examination of a lost piece of history. Beautifully shot and triumphantly acted (by a cast that also includes Morgan Freeman, Cary Elwes, and Andre Braugher), director Edward Zwick's film serves as a tribute to the courage and selfless bravery of the black soldiers of the Civil War.
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- Sales Rank: 10,420
- UPC: 043396702899
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