The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War(2017)

🎬90 min
📅2017-12-13
🎭Documentary, History, War

Overview

Nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters", these African-Americans wanted to become ordinary citizens like everyone else. They saw fighting heroically in the trenches as their chance to achieve this. In 1918, the 15th New York National Guard Regiment became the most highly decorated unit of the First World War.

Production

PBS Productions, What's Up Films

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Cast

Philippe Baudoin
as Musicologist, Jazz Historian
Barack Obama
as Self