Days of Glory
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Days of Glory (2006)

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7.2
5 platform(s) · 7 ratings 24,330 votes
7.7/10 8,233 votes Synced 2026-07-30
7.0/10 15,674 votes Synced 2026-08-20
Audience 6.9/10 11 votes Synced 2026-07-19
Critics 8.2/10 Synced 2026-07-19
Audience 7.9/10 Synced 2026-07-18
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6.7/10 412 votes Synced 2026-08-30

External reviews

Lisa Schwarzbaum · Entertainment Weekly 100.00/100.00

The ensemble cast shared the best-actor award at the 2006 Cannes film festival -- and rightly so.

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Ken Fox · TV Guide Magazine 100.00/100.00

On the list of WWII stories criminally ignored by six decades of combat movies in the past 60 years, the heroics of French colonial soldiers ranks pretty high. But Rachid Bouchareb's powerful drama -- which won the 2006 Cannes Film Festival's best-actors award for its superb ensemble cast and was nominated for a best foreign-language-film Oscar, went a long way toward rectifying the situation, both on screen and in real life.

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David Edelstein · New York Magazine (Vulture) 90.00/100.00

Indigènes is a stupendous work--and why that new title stinks to heaven.

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Michael Wilmington · Chicago Tribune 88.00/100.00

Its social impact is part of what makes this movie memorable. But as with almost any exceptional, truthful war picture, Days of Glory moves us because we know the soldiers -- because we share their fear, triumph and pain.

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Wesley Morris · Boston Globe 88.00/100.00

A movingly acted, terrifically old-fashioned World War II picture rethought as a post-colonial rebuke.

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Stephanie Zacharek · Salon 100.00/100.00

This is a supreme example of how a filmmaker can make a work of fiction based on fact that, without didacticism or heavy-handed moralizing, leaves us feeling more connected not just with history but with what makes us human in the first place.

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Kenneth Turan · Los Angeles Times 90.00/100.00

As directed by Rachid Bouchareb, himself born in France to Algerian immigrants, "Days of Glory" is a kind of a North African "Saving Private Ryan," a taut, involving film that delivers all the things we look for in war movies and does so with intelligence and integrity.

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Peter Travers · Rolling Stone 88.00/100.00

Bouchareb's film helped shame the French government into raising pensions for more than 80,000 of these veterans. Here's that rare movie that really did change things. I'll be damned.

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Claudia Puig · USA Today 88.00/100.00

Not only a stirring history lesson and an action-packed war film, Glory is also a ferocious statement about enduring discrimination that resounds today.

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