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Glory & Honor [VHS]

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Matthew Henson is one of the most beloved African American heros. His 18 year partnership with Navy Lt. Robert Peary made it possible in 1909 for an expedition to reach the North Pole. Only today do we understand how difficult and dangerous is this 1,000 mile route over the frozen ocean. Those who have sought to repeat the adventure in modern times have all gone only half way and had to be air rescued! Henson is a great icon to African Americans because of his impeccable character. He was highly skilled, loved by the Eskimos, saved the lives of others, was indispensable and yet quiet, good natured and modest. Turn of the century white society had no place for him and so Peary received all the honor, gold medals, Navy Pension, etc. While Peary died in 1920, Henson lived until 1955. While Peary's image faded, Matt's legend grew. Today he is finally "in the Navy" - buried in Arlington National Cemetery next to Peary and the USNS HENSON oceanographic survey vessel sails the worlds oceans. Delroy Lindo did an admirable portrayal of this great man in the first ever, but hopefully not the last, movie about the real North Pole story. A great gift to any young person needing a role model and a must see for Black History Month.

I want to share this movie with my 5th grade class. We are reading his biography in class and it woud be great to see the comparisons.

The movie appeared to reflect a composite truth about Matthew Henson's efforts to reach the North Pole... In that regard, the movie truly was quite stirring, in that it also reflected some of the injustice(s) experienced by African Americans and other people of color to this day (I have been to at least 12 other countries, and in my opinion the USA is absolutely the best country in world in which to live and be a citizen; nonetheless, racism and bigotry is still alive and well here,
and is still a major determining factor with regard many facets of life here in the USA...(yes Dorothy, we're not in Kansas anymore)). But I digress (to say the least)...

Back to the movie...Nearly one-half of the movie seems to have been deleted via cutting & pasting (but I must admit that someone who had never seen the movie before would not know the difference)...

So,I would not recommend you purchase this movie, unless you would be happy with just the basic theme and the bottom line of this historical movie.Glory & Honor [VHS]

I enjoy historically based movies. I saw this on TV and decided to buy it. I could only find it in VHS, but conidition was new with a good price.