Glory Movie Essay

Glory movie review The 1989 movie Glory by Edward Zwick is about the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry army for the Union army during the civil war. The movie was about a federal army that was one of the first African American armies and the hardships the endured due to their race. Throughout the movie the soldiers are first given small manual tasks but then are finally able to fight in the war. The movie shows how the men were trained to fight in combat but how they were given little supplies and were not given the big tasks they were ready for and asked for. Glory shows how the men were punishable just as if they were still slaves and how most of the men were not given enough food and not supplied with adequate equipment because they
During the final scene of the movie, the 54th infantry are given the task to be the front line on the charge on a confederate fort in Charles, South Carolina on July 18, 1863 where almost all of the soldiers are killed. The movie has a central theme that the African American soldiers were fighting for their own rights and that’s why they fought so hard and toughed it out during the war. Robert Gould Shaw, the commander of the regiment was shown in the movie as the first choice of Governor Andrew when according to history he wasn’t the first choice to be the commander and also hesitated the idea of leading the regiment. The regiment was shown in the movie composed of run-away slaves when in fact most of the soldiers when freeman living in the north. Training of the 54th in the movie shows they began in November of 1862 when they actually
Colonel Shaw’s death was accurate according to history because he did with his mean but was stripped of his uniform and was later buried with the men he fought with. The basic change of the mentality toward African American’s was mostly correct due to the fact that at first they did have a very negative view to them and did respect them a little more at the end. The story line of the movie was historically accurate except the time they began training was actually about three months later than the movie shows. The order of events the movie shows of the 54th being minor manual labor to eventually being able to fight was historically