Carter's Army is a 1970 American made-for-television war drama film starring a host of prominent African-American film actors, including Richard Pryor, Rosey Grier, Robert Hooks, Billy Dee Williams and Moses Gunn.
Their failure would delay the Allied advance into Germany, thus prolonging the war.
These African-Americans had been relegated to cleaning latrines and therefore have little real military training, but Captain Beau Carter has no choice.
He leads the rag-tag unit to secure the dam and the men reveal themselves as heroic.
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