The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War

The story

Nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters", these African-Americans wanted to become ordinary citizens like everyone else. They saw fighting heroically in the trenches as their chance to achieve this. In 1918, the 15th New York National Guard Regiment became the most highly decorated unit of the First World War.

Cast & crew

PB

Philippe Baudoin

Musicologist, Jazz Historian

Barack Obama

Self

François Reinhardt

Director