Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...precisely because of their lowly status, these men had a more than usually powerful need to assert their manhood through deadly exertion. Glory is at its best when it shows their proud embrace of 19th century warfare at its most brutal. Director Edward Zwick graphically demonstrates the absurdity of lines of soldiers slowly advancing across open ground, shoulder to shoulder, in the face of withering rifle volleys and horrendous cannonade. The fact that the 54th finally achieves respect (and opens the way for other black soldiers) only by losing half its number in a foredoomed assault on an impregnable fortress...
Editorial Director: Richard B. Stolley...
...DIRECTOR: Rudolph C. Hoglund...
...GRAPHICS DIRECTOR: Nigel Holmes...
OPERATIONS DIRECTOR: Gerard C. Lelievre...