
95 minutes
2/26/1994
The story of Johnson Whittaker, one of the first African-American cadets admitted to West Point. Tied down and beaten by his fellow cadets

Samuel L. Jackson
as Richard Greener

Sam Waterston
as Daniel Chamberlain

Mason Adams
as Henry D. Hyde

Val Avery
as Gen. Sherman

Eddie Bracken
as Maj. Charles T. Alexander

Gene Canfield
as McIntosh

Robert Clohessy
as Dan Broyles

Al Freeman Jr.
as Old Johnson Whittaker

George Martin
as President Rutherford B. Hayes

Ken Garito
as Cadet Lewis Ostheim

Greg Germann
as Vernon Bailey

John Glover
as Maj. Asa Bird Gardiner

Brad Greenquist
as Dr. Beard

Peter Maloney
as Capt. William Smith Michie
Scott Paetty
as Cadet George Burnett

Josef Sommer
as Col. Morrow

Seth Gilliam
as Cadet Johnson C. Whittaker

Anthony Rapp
as Cadet Frederick G. Hodgson

Jim Grimshaw
as Grimes

James Bigwood
as Albert S. Southworth