Glory

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Glory, 1989.

TCM's Dave Karger introduces Glory, 1989.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Glory, 1989.

Home in Boston after surviving Antietam, Union officer Robert Gould Shaw feted by his abolitionist parents (Jane Alexander, Peter Michael Goetz), with family friend Searles (Andre Braugher), meeting the governor (Alan North) and Frederick Douglass (Raymond St. Jacques), in Edward Zwick’s Glory, 1989.

Director Edward Zwick introduces black soldiers who’ll serve under Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick) in the Union army, Andre Braugher as Searles, Jihmi Kennedy as Sharts, Academy Award winner Denzel Washington as Trip, Morgan Freeman as Rawlins, Ronreaco Lee the drummer, in Glory, 1989.

Director Edward Zwick’s stirring opening, Matthew Broderick as Union officer Robert Gould Shaw, reading partly from his original letters, Kevin Jarre’s script from publications by Peter Burchard and Lincoln Kirstein, from Glory, 1989, with Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman.

Forbes (Cary Elwes) and Colonel Shaw (Matthew Broderick) have disappointing news for their black enlisted Union soldiers, Jihmi Kennedy, Morgan Freeman and others eventually joining in a protest instigated by Trip (Denzel Washington), in director Edward Zwick’s Glory, 1989.

Colonel Shaw (Matthew Broderick) shares an unwelcome message from the Confederacy with his in-training black Union soldiers, Cary Elwes his aide Forbes, Morgan Freeman, Andre Braugher, Jihmi Kennedy and Denzel Washington as “Trip” among the interested parties, Edward Zwick’s Glory, 1989.

Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington star in the true story of America's first black regiment, the 54th Massachusetts Voluntary Infantry.