The biographical war drama went on to win two Academy Awards from eight nominations.
While it won three Academy Awards from five nominations,Gloryultimately underwhelmed at the box office.
It remains an essential classic of the 80s, and one of the greatest school movies ever made.
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LikeRaiders of the Lost Ark, it thrives as an engrossing masterpiece of action-adventure cinema.
Retrospectively, many regard it to bethe best and most important film of the 1980s.
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