Until the Gettysburg Movie was made, this was the best Civil War movie of all time. In Glory, a colored division of soldiers is raised for service in the Union army. At first their use is limited to the realm of manual labor.
Training sequences pit the black soldiers against their white officiers in a most unique fashion.
The movie stars Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman. Denzel plays a bull headed soldier who seems to wish to fight the world. Morgan plays an old man who later becomes a non commionsed officer, a Sergeant. The one thing that stands out about this movie most is the final battle scene. In the scenes climax, a colored division leads an attack on Confederate held Ft.