Hart's War
In the beginning, Tom Hart is being interrogated and Hart refuses to give up any information. Finally, Hart tells the soldier where he was. Then Hart is sent to go live with the other POW's. He is sent to live in the enlisted soldiers barrack instead of the officers barrack. Hart is a lieutanant and at the camp he meets Colonel McNamara.
In his barrack he meets Sergeant Vic Bedford. Bedford gives Hart some new boots because Hart's old shoes were not in good shape. After a while, 2 African American lieutanants come and join their barrack. Bedford does not approve of this and he is very mean to them.
One night, the Germans come into Hart's barrack and say that one of his men has been outside. Hart denies this, but the Germans look under one of the African Americans mattress and find a weapon. He is then taken outside and shot. Soon after this incident, Bedford is found dead and Lieutenant Lincoln Scott is found above him.
Immediatley everyone thinks that Scott killed Bedford because he was right there and he was black. The Americans think that they should have a trial for Scott to be fair and the German Colonel Visser agrees to this. Hart, who was a law student before the war, is Scott's lawyer. They hold the trial in the theater and McNamara is the judge. They hold many meetings and it seems that everyone thinks that it's Scott. Hart receives a U.S. army book that Visser had. He uses that to call McNamara to be a witness.
One night, Hart sees a man moving outside the barrack. He follows him and finds out that he went to the theater. Hart goes to where the man had been and he found a secret tunnel. Hart tells McNamara and then Hart finds out that it was actually McNamara who killed Bedford because he didn't want him to tell the Germans.
Hart tells McNamara that he has to tell the court what he did so that Scott can be free. He also tells Scott that he needs to escape with 35 other men otherwise he will be executed. Scott doesn't want to go though. The day this is going to happen, McNamara pretends he is ill so that he can escape with the other men. Hart is still in court talking trying to help Scott. He even does a demonstration to show that is couldn't be Scott. Then at the end of the trial Hart says that he was the one who killed Bedford.
The Germans take him and gather up everyone else to come and watch him be killed, but the Germans come back and say that 35 men are missing. The Germans find the tunnel, but they don't do anything. Just as Hart is going to be killed, McNamara comes through the gates and says that he would rather have the Germans shoot him than everyone else. He is shoot and the rest of the soldiers there solute him.
I thought Hart's War was a good movie because it focused on different things than the other movies I watched. It had African American soldiers, a POW camp, and a murder trial. The men in this movie were brave and never gave up.
Colonel Visser, Hart, and McNamara.
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Great job!