In the 1980s and early 1990s, numerous media reports emerged that plans were underway to do a biopic based upon Haley's life, with Beau Bridges, Jeff Bridges and John Ritter all at one point being mentioned as actors in line to play Haley ( according to Goldmine Magazine, Ritter attempted to buy the film rights to Sound and Glory ).

* The 1989 film Glory featured Frederick Douglass as a friend of Francis George Shaw.

Hawks's first film The Road to Glory was based on a thirty-five page treatment that Hawks wrote and is one of only two Hawks films that are lost films.

Immediately after completing The Road to Glory Hawks began writing his next film, Fig Leaves, his first ( and only until 1935 ) comedy.

Shortly after the release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ), Eric Idle flippantly suggested that the title of the Pythons ' forthcoming feature would be Jesus Christ – Lust for Glory ( a play on the UK title for the 1970 American film Patton ).

In his 1870 memoir, Army Life in a Black Regiment, New England abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson ( later editor of Emily Dickinson ), described how he wrote down and preserved Negro spirituals or " shouts " while serving an a colonel in the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first authorized Union Army regiment recruited from freedmen during the Civl War ( memorialized in the 1989 film Glory ).

The 1966 basketball squad led Texas Western University to its only defeat in a championship season celebrated in the film Glory Road.

With the sound era, films like All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ) ( and its much darker German counterpart Westfront 1918 ), Howard Hawks ' Road to Glory ( 1936 ) and Grand Illusion ( 1937 ), focused on the futility of war for non-American soldiers whilst Hollywood produced American soldiers featuring in World War I comedies such as Buster Keaton's Doughboys ( 1930 ) and Wheeler & Woolsey's Half Shot at Sunrise ( 1930 ), or exciting tales of the U. S. Marine Corps putting down rebellions in Central America, China, and the Pacific Islands in films like Frank Capra's Flight ( 1930 ), The Leathernecks Have Landed ( 1936 ) and Tell it to the Marines ( 1926 film ).

* In the 2007 film Blades of Glory, Will Ferrell's character claims to be referred to as " The Illustrated Man ".

* In the film " Glory " one can see the 14th Brooklyn in the beginning.

The attack on Fort Wagner is depicted in the film Glory.

Peck's first film, Days of Glory, was released in 1944.

He is notable for winning the Best Supporting Actor for Glory in 1989 ; and the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2001 for his role in the film Training Day.

In 1989 Washington won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a defiant self-possessed ex-slave soldier in the film Glory.

Bound for Glory is a 1976 American film directed by Hal Ashby and loosely adapted by Robert Getchell from Woody Guthrie's 1943 autobiography Bound for Glory.

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According to singer Peter Cetera, he originally wrote his best-selling solo single " Glory of Love " as the end title for this film, but was passed over by United Artists, and instead used as the theme for The Karate Kid Part II.

The island's beauty and history has attracted a number of Hollywood film productions, including the Oscar-winning Glory, the original Cape Fear, The Last of the Belles, Forrest Gump, and The Last Song.

Hope and Glory is a 1987 Anglo-American comedy-drama-war film, written, produced and directed by John Boorman, and based on his own experiences of growing up in the Blitz in London during World War II.

The title of the film derives from the traditional British patriotic song " Land of Hope and Glory ".

In 2005, she completed work on the film Glory Road and starred in the music video for Nick Cannon and Anthony Hamilton's " Can I Live?

She had acted on the stage previously, being a Vaudeville singer at age fifteen and her first film was The Glory of Clementina ( 1922 ), and her first starring role was in The City that Never Sleeps ( 1924 ).

In 1994, she covered the song " Take Me Out To The Ball Game " for Ken Burns ' film Baseball, as well as a recording of " I've Got a Crush On You " for Larry Adler's covers album The Glory of Gershwin.

* Aberdeen ( film ), a film ( 2000 ) directed by Hans Petter Moland, starring Stellan Skarsgård and Lena Headey

Cuarón's next project found him returning to Mexico with a Spanish-speaking cast to film Y tu mamá también, starring Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna.

* Abduction ( 2011 film ), an action-thriller film starring Taylor Lautner

* The Abduction ( TV film ), starring Victoria Principal and Robert Hays

The Hollywood film Air Force One ( film ) starring Harrison Ford recounts the fictional story of the hijacking of the famous aircraft by six Kazakh ultra-nationalist terrorists.

The film Con Air, starring Nicolas Cage and John Malkovich, features scenes in which an aircraft is hijacked by the maximum-security prisoners on board.

Passenger 57 is a film starring Wesley Snipes as an airline security expert trapped on a passenger jet when terrorists seize control.

In 1979, the film was remade for CBS television by Delbert Mann, starring Richard Thomas of The Waltons as Paul Bäumer and Ernest Borgnine as Kat.

It was adapted for film in 1977, with Harold Prince directing and Elizabeth Taylor, Len Cariou, Lesley-Anne Down and Diana Rigg starring.

In 1977, a film version of A Little Night Music was released, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Lesley-Anne Down and Diana Rigg, with Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold and Laurence Guittard reprising their Broadway roles.

Lerner and Loewe's run of success continued with their next project, a film adaptation of stories from Colette, the Academy Award winning film musical Gigi, starring Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan and Maurice Chevalier.

A Funny Thing has enjoyed several Broadway and West End revivals and was made into a successful film starring the original lead of the musical, Zero Mostel.

Brooks also made a cameo appearance in the film Private Benjamin ( 1980 ), starring Goldie Hawn.

Virtually all productions today, however, use the original ending, as do nearly all of the film versions of this play, including Dariush Mehrjui's Sara ( the Argentine version, made in 1943 and starring Delia Garcés, does not ; it also modernizes the story, setting it in the early 1940s ).

Two film versions were released in 1973: one directed by Joseph Losey, starring Jane Fonda, David Warner and Trevor Howard ; and the other by Patrick Garland with Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins, and Ralph Richardson.

The film records The Performance Group's performance of Euripides ’ The Bacchae, starring, amongst others, De Palma regular William Finley.

Boudica has been the subject of two feature films, the 1928 film Boadicea, where she was portrayed by Phyllis Neilson-Terry, and 2003's Boudica ( Warrior Queen in the US ), a UK TV film written by Andrew Davies and starring Alex Kingston as Boudica.

When " Rock Around the Clock " appeared behind the opening credits of the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle starring Glenn Ford, it soared to the top of the American Billboard chart for eight weeks.

Braveheart is a 1995 epic historical drama film directed by and starring Mel Gibson.

* Bill ( 1981 film ), a 1981 TV movie starring Mickey Rooney