Soldier's Story, A (1984) - (Movie Clip) White Folks In The Town

Soldier's Story, A (1984) -- (Movie Ciip) Crazy Kind of Hate

Prosecutor Captain Davenport (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) questions Private Wilkie (Art Evans), leading into a flashback sequence further exposing the character of murder victim Sergeant Waters (Adolph Caesar) in 1944 Louisiana, in A Soldier's Story 1984.

Soldier's Story, A (1984) -- (Movie Clip) They Still Hate You

Joining director Norman Jewison’s opening, Patti LaBelle the maybe implausibly excellent vocalist in fictional Tynin, La, 1944, and Adolph Caesar the intoxicated African American Army drill sergeant whose murder forms the premise, Wings Hauser the white officer debriefing troops including Denzel Washington and Larry Riley, in A Soldier’s Story, 1984.

Soldier's Story, A (1984) -- (Movie Clip) PFC Melvin Peterson

Investigating the murder of Sgt. Waters (Adolph Caesar), Captain Davenport (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) deposes Private Peterson (Denzel Washington) who recalls a baseball game starring CJ (Larry Riley), in Norman Jewison's A Soldier's Story, 1984, from Charles Fuller's play and screenplay.