<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $18 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $26.8 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Glory is a 1989 American war film directed by Edward Zwick, starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes and Morgan Freeman . The screenplay by Kevin Jarre was based on the books Lay This Laurel by Lincoln Kirstein and One Gallant Rush by Peter Burchard, and the personal letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw . The end credits are superimposed on photos of the monument to the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry on Boston Common . </P> <P> The film is about one of the first military units of the Union Army, during the American Civil War, to consist entirely of African - American men (except for its officers), as told from the point of view of Colonel Shaw, its white commanding officer . The regiment is known especially for its heroic actions at Fort Wagner . </P>

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