Director Spike Lee's latest is out in theaters this weekend.
With "Miracle at St. Anna," Lee has taken novelist James McBride's story and made a compelling film about a squad of African-American soldiers separated from their unit during the invasion of Italy in 1944.
They rescue a small boy, orphaned after the Nazis had murdered more than 500 people in a town who refused to betray the partisans among them.
A religious artifact, and the friendship between the boy and one of the soldiers plays into the story, as well as the town beauty's refusal to flee to safety.
Critic Jeffrey Lyons says "Miracle at St. Anna" is an "absorbing drama of courage and conviction".
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