Film · 1989 · Films · 1980s
Glory
Scored from 312 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
Robert Gould Shaw, a young Boston officer who survived the slaughter at Antietam, comes home and accepts command of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the Union Army's first regiment of Black soldiers, in 1863. With his friend Cabot Forbes he drills a company that includes the defiant runaway Trip, the gravedigger Rawlins and his own educated childhood friend Thomas Searles, while the Army denies the men shoes and equal pay and assigns them to manual labour and a punitive raid on a Georgia town. Shaw pushes his superiors for a fighting assignment and the regiment is shipped south to the Confederate coastal defences of South Carolina. Edward Zwick's Civil War drama is drawn from Shaw's letters and the regiment's history.
Glory (1989) is a film IMDb files under the biography, drama and history genres. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is R. It runs 2h 2m.
The calibrated figure is built from 312 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 324 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 4 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Glory lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1980s (3,141 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 312.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
