I have a number of WWI movies, as my grandmother was a WWI battlefield nurse, so I have been interested in this topic for years. With the recent release of Sam Mendes “1917”, I was interested to see the depictions of battle scenes, and I was pleasantly surprised! Ron Perlman as Black Jack Pershing was questionable, but otherwise I enjoyed the film. The best and most accurate portrayal of fighting in the trenches still has to be the Canadian film Passchendale.

This was another movie that showed the tenacity of the buffalo soldiers in action during WWII. The best part was the growing bond between men of different color as they battle an enemy much larger than themselves. The two well known characters play an insignificant part but the two main characters sold the story!

This is a low budget movie; however, despite the production flaws, this is a good story. Unfortunately, several times the negative was reversed and this was a serious distraction. This was made more obvious when the shoulder sleeve insignia on the uniform of one of the principal actors switched back and forth from the left to the right shoulder. If one overlooks the production flaws, the story is worthwhile.

I felt this was a great movie about how people react in combat. If you are in a situation where you need help and your life is on the line. A hand is there to save you. You are one color the hand is another color. Are you going to push that hand away? War is war.

i dont mind stories about overcoming inequality which thete certainly waz in ww1 and the black units got zero recognition but the portrait painted here did not resonate with me. I think it was taking on more of a 2020 out lokk rather than a 1917 out look. Understand where they were trying to go but missed the mark in my opinion.