Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker (1994)
- Directed by
- Harry Morgan Moses
- Genre
- trial film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 14 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This film dramatizes a real incident from 1880 where a black cadet at West Point was assaulted. It shows the subsequent court-martial and the lawyer who defended him against racial prejudice.
tensesoberhistoricalemotionally chargedslow-burnmelancholicunsettlingdramatic
What happens
Assault at West Point is a 1994 Showtime made-for-cable drama film about Johnson Chesnut Whittaker, one of the first black cadets at West Point, and the trial that followed an assault he suffered in 1880. The film features Samuel L. Jackson, who portrays Richard Greener, a lawyer who defends Whittaker. The movie is based on historian John F. Marszalek's book Court Martial: A Black Man in America. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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