Music: Juneteenth Playlist

To celebrate Juneteenth, I put together a playlist of music from films about the American Civil War. Far and away the best of them is James Horner's epic soundtrack to Glory, based on the real-life exploits of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment.  There's also music from Steven Spielberg's Lincoln and Gary Ross's Free State of Jones (neither soundtrack is particularly memorable, regrettably).

I had to cheat a little by including songs from Ken Burns's The Civil War documentary; perhaps because the subject matter is so tragic, there actually aren't all that many movies about the Civil War itself. Most films are content to use the conflict as a backdrop, which seems to do a disservice to the lives lost and the millions of enslaved persons over whom the war was fought (yes, it was mostly about slavery).