To me it isn't up for debate. Glory is the greatest Civil War movie ever made

[AZLD4Candidate]

"Give 'em hell, 54th!"

[Goonch]

1. 👇👇👇

[NanceGreggs]

2. No argument here. n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Enabled Denzel Washington to win his first Oscar!

[OldBaldy1701E]

4. I agree.

An absolutely brilliant film that has impact and shows off some great talent. Think about this cast.

Matthew Broderick
Denzel Washington
Morgan Freeman
Andre Braugher
Cliff DeYoung

And that is just some of the main characters. The film holds a place of honor in my collection.

And, that soundtrack! James Horner is a genius!

[nattyice]

5. Too "woke" for red states now.

[FeelingBlue]

6. At the time I first saw that movie,

I was teaching in an urban public high school. At our communal lunch table, I brought up that I had seen the movie the night before. A black teacher sitting across from me said something disparaging about it and added, “I wouldn’t show that movie to my dog.” I was so stunned by her comment and embarrassed that I’d offered an offense that I don’t think I had the nerve to follow up with a question. To this day, I don’t know why she made that comment.

[MayReasonRule]

8. ignorance Perchance? Had She Even Seen The Movie?

[jaxexpat]

11. I wouldn't either. However, some aspects of it reveal what may upset a modern, self-aware American..

of color. And, again, I'm just guessing.

1. White officers required as no black officers existed or were accepted
2. The battle of Battery Wagner was a suicide mission which accomplished little to nothing tactical or strategic
3. Black soldiers were USUALLY used as the point of the spear and ALWAYS suffered the most casualties
4. In the Battle of Olustee in north Florida black soldiers were ordered to hold a line while the white soldiers escaped and were nearly annihilated, never retreated, on fear of execution. (Picked that up perusing the battle info at the state park there.) Baker county Florida has a distinctive culture even today, but I don't know how much of it plays from the civil war battle fought there. Kentucky isn't the only "dark and bloody ground".

Great movie and profoundly moving but I can see why some might resent the fact that the realities of black forces in the US military cannot be conveyed in a single film.

[malthaussen]

14. One of the simplest, but most chilling examples of those realities, for me...

... was the first time I was reading the crew list for a US warship whose skipper had written his memoirs. This was the official Navy crew list, and as I read it, I saw that several crew had a parenthetical " (n) " after their names. eg, "Robert Jones, Matt 3c (n)." The crew list specified which crew were "Negroes!" (think the Navy also tagged Chinese and Filipino crew)

Still SMH over why the Navy thought that was necessary.

-- Mal

[jaxexpat]

15. Who is it that can plumb the depths of misery and racism, hatred for a stranger?

[twodogsbarking]

7. In case you didn't know.

Twice as many Civil War soldiers died from disease as from battle wounds, the result in considerable measure of poor sanitation in an era that created mass armies that did not yet understand the transmission of infectious diseases like typhoid, typhus, and dysentery.
[link:https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/national_cemeteries/death.html#:~:text=Twice%20as%20many%20Civil%20War,typhoid%2C%20typhus%2C%20and%20dysentery.|

[sarge43]

9. The Civil War was preview of a coming attraction - World War I.

At least by then a vaccination for typhoid was available and administered.

Glory both lifts and breaks the heart.

"If this man should fall, who will lift the flag and carry on?"
"I will."

[AZLD4Candidate]

10. I'm a history teacher by trade. Of course I knew that.

[mopinko]

12. a line from a steve earle tune- ben mccullough

they told us that our enemy would all be dressed in blue,
they forgot about the winter cold and the curse of fever too.

[malthaussen]

13. They took some liberties with history...

... but overall a very good flick.

-- Mal