MOVIE TRIVIA

DID YOU KNOW? To convince TriStar of the project’s viability, director Edward Zwick filmed a re-enactment of the Battle of Gettysburg in Gettysburg, PA, and used the footage to create a nine-minute presentation for the studio. This re-enactment footage was used in the completed film to depict the Battle of Antietam. 

DID YOU KNOW? Producer Freddie Fields personally spent $1 million of his own money to get GLORY made. 

DID YOU KNOW? GLORY opened on a platform release in three theaters in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto, and took in the highest per-screen average of any film in its opening weekend, grossing $21,220 per screen. 

DID YOU KNOW? To be as historically accurate as possible, the production used Robert Gould Shaw’s own silver candlesticks as props, and military uniforms were painstakingly researched and executed; even the unseen underside of Matthew Broderick’s cap was “dyed the perfect Massachusetts medium green.” 

DID YOU KNOW? GLORY marked actor Andre Braugher’s big screen debut. He plays Corporal Thomas Searles in the film. 

DID YOU KNOW? Denzel Washington received an Oscar® for Best Supporting Actor, as well as a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture. GLORY also won Academy Awards® for Best Cinematography and Sound.  

DID YOU KNOW? The bas–relief sculpture in the credits is the Robert Gould Shaw and 54th Regiment Memorial in Boston Common, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. It’s located on the Common, on the left side of the steps leading up to the Beacon Street entrance of the gold domed Massachusetts State Capitol. 

DID YOU KNOW? In the end credits of GLORY, the producers acknowledged the invaluable contribution of the thousands of living history re-enactors from 20 states whose donation of time, equipment and Civil War combat expertise made the film possible. 

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