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Article: Second-class soldiers.(Days of Glory)(Movie review)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- March 20, 2007
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NOMINATED FOR an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, Days of Glory has received plenty of praise for its sometimes stirring story of North Africans fighting for France during World War II. But far more attention has been paid to its underlying goal of getting France to reinstate pensions for the men who fought for the motherland but had their benefits slashed or eliminated once their home countries gained independence and were no longer part of the French empire.
There are some good movies with such a clear agenda at the core. Some, like Errol Morris's The Thin Blue Line and Barbara Kopple's pro-union documentaries (Harlan County U.S.A. and American ...