UNIVERSAL SOLDIER MOVIES IN ORDER MOVIE

The overall trajectory of Glory hews closely to the historical record the script relies heavily on ShawвЂ™s letters home during his time in the army (a title card opening the movie refers to the correspondence.) Over the course of just over two hours, viewers move from Battle of Antietam to the regimentвЂ™s military training to the deep South of Georgia and South Carolina. (All the black characters are fictional, though some have suggested that Searles is based on one of Frederick DouglassвЂ™ sons, who served in the regiment.) The supporting cast includes Morgan Freeman as Sergeant John Rawlins, Andre Braugher as the well-educated Thomas Searles, and Denzel Washington as the escaped slave Trip. The movie, directed by Ed Zwick, stars Matthew Broderick as the real-life figure Colonel Robert G. But even as the story of the black Americans who served in the United States army during the Civil War becomes more widely known, new viewers of the movie may wonder where fact and faction intersect in Glory.

The historical epicвЂ™s appearance on the streaming giant comes at the end of a summer that witnessed the sometimes-violent removal of roughly 75 Confederate monuments amidst nationwide protests under the вЂњBlack Lives MatterвЂќ banner. Although it had middling success at the box office, the film became a stalwart of high school history classes and its popularity will only expand with its recent addition to the Netflix library. Thirty-one years ago, the Hollywood movie Glory debuted in theaters, garnering positive reviews from critics and historians as it told the Civil War story of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first all-Black regiment raised in the North. Denzel Washington won an Oscar for his role as one of the soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts.

Universal soldier movies in order