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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: HISTORY LESSONS: Glory (1989)
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CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of slavery, racism, flogging and whipping, war, death, violent death, Civil War, Confederacy, white savior tropes.
Our next history lesson comes from the Civil War, told through the perspective of one of the first black regiments to fight against the Confederacy. And as far as history movies go, this one actually manages to do a great job of capturing the nature, if not all the details, of the subject it’s portraying. More importantly, though, a then-new Edward Zwick took helm of...