Daily Archives: May 2, 2012

Enter the Dragon (1973)

Directed by Robert Clouse, A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover. Lee is a martial arts artist who makes it his business to help catch the drug dealer whose gang killed his sister. The dealer  works from an island that is heavily-guarded by his own team of martial arts experts. A kung fu tournament is regularly held on the island, so he enters the contest and then proceeds to fight his way into the leader’s headquarters. It is a deadly tournament that they will enter on an island.

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Glory (1989)

Directed by Edward Zwick, Based on mostly true story, The story of the first black regiment to fight for the North in the Civil War.  Lead by two idealistic young Bostonians, the regiment also includes an inspirational sergeant who unites the troops and a runaway slave who embodies the indomitable spirit of the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts. Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War’s first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.

( The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry the first formal unit of the US Army to be made up entirely of African American men.)

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