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A Soldier's Story is a 1984 American mystery drama film directed and produced by Norman Jewison, adapted by Charles Fuller from his Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier's Play. It is a murder mystery set in a segregated regiment of the U.S Army commanded by White officers and training in the Jim Crow South .
Nov 2, 1984 · A Soldier's Story: Directed by Norman Jewison. With Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, Art Evans, David Alan Grier. An African-American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.
- (11K)
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Norman Jewison
- 1984-11-02
An Army lawyer, a captain, is sent from Washington to handle the investigation, and he turns out to be black, too -- the first black officer anyone in the movie has ever seen. Movie Reviews TV/Streaming
An African-American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II. A black soldier is killed while returning to his base in the deep south. The white people of the area are suspected at first. A tough black army attorney is brought in to find out the truth.
A black Army investigator (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) travels to a remote military base in the heart of the Louisiana backwoods to look into the mysterious murder of a black sergeant toward the...
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- Norman Jewison
- PG
- Howard E. Rollins Jr.
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A Soldier's Story. When a sergeant of an all-black unit in Louisiana during WWII is murdered, an Army lawyer investigates if the crime was an act of extreme white bigotry or could the killer be a soldier in the victim's unit who all hated him for his harsh treatment. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish ...
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