Analyze the film Glory.

Glory is a film that addresses the long-neglected story of the
participation of African American soldiers in the Civil War. For at least a century after the
war ended, white America attempted, partly unconsciously, to act as if black people had had no
active role in the war and even to claim that the whole question of race and slavery was somehow
irrelevant. In reality, the principal issue that caused the war was slavery, and several hundred
thousand African American men served in the Union Army and contributed to the Union
victory.

Earlier Hollywood treatments of the war ignored these facts,
portraying the conflict wholly as a white man's war. The two most famous Civil War films are
still, arguably, The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Gone with the
Wind (1939), both of which are pro-Southern. The former is openly racist, portraying
black people negatively and stereotypically. Despite its exalted status and the fact that it is
still frequently shown on television, Gone with the Wind also...