The Single Greatest Film about War ever made

Rating: 10/10 (5 October 1999)

It's apparent from the very beginning of GLORY that Col. Robert Gould Shaw knows he is going to die. It's as if a higher power is working through him as he sacrifices everything he has ever known to lead a "Holy Battle" and in the process personify, through his actions, the very meaning of the American Civil War. Unlike the sheepish GETTYSBURG.....GLORY shows us the horror of war in realistic terms and we care, desperately for the characters. PURE GENIUS from Ed Zwick. How the same man who made GLORY and ABOUT LAST NIGHT could make nothing but horrible movies afterwards is beyond reason.