Moving Historical Piece

Rating: 8/10 (28 May 2007)

First saw this movie on March 18th, 1990, and it moved me, for obvious reasons. Screenwriter Kevin Jarre (from Robert Gould Shaw's letters and two novels) presents a well-told tale about the first black regiment of the Civil War in America.
There are strong performances from Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman and Academy Award winner Denzel Washington. The cinematography is solid and the art direction splendid, but what makes the film is the moving soundtrack by James Horner. It not only makes the movie, it is a splendid work of art in its own right, with haunting choral anthems from the "Boys Choir of Harlem". This one could have been an epic.
Saturday, May 25, 1991 - Video