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

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.

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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)

Trailer

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