Miracle at St. Anna is a 2008 American–Italian epic war film directed and produced by Spike Lee, starring Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller, Pierfrancesco Favino and Valentina Cervi.
The film premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival before it was released on September 26, 2008.
Plot[]
During World War II, members of the U.S. Army's all-black division are stationed in the Tuscany region of Italy. Four of the soldiers (Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller) become trapped behind enemy lines and separated from the rest of their unit after one of them risks his life to save an Italian boy.
Spike Lee filmography |
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| Feature films directed: | She's Gotta Have It (1986) • School Daze (1988) • Do the Right Thing (1989) • Mo' Better Blues (1990) • Jungle Fever (1991) • Malcolm X (1992) • Crooklyn (1994) • Clockers (1995) • Girl 6 (1996) • Get on the Bus (1996) • He Got Game (1998) • Summer of Sam (1999) • Bamboozled (2000) • 25th Hour (2002) • She Hate Me (2004) • Inside Man (2006) • Miracle at St. Anna (2008) • Red Hook Summer (2012) • Oldboy (2013) • Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014) • Chi-Raq (2015) • BlacKkKlansman (2018) |
| Documentaries directed: | 4 Little Girls (1997) • Freak (1998) • The Original Kings of Comedy (2000) • A Huey P. Newton Story (2001) • The Concert for New York City (2001, "Come Rain or Come Shine") • Jim Brown: All-American (2002) • When the Levees Broke (2006) • Kobe Doin' Work (2009) • Passing Strange (2009) If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise • Bad 25' (2012) • Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (2016) |
| Other films directed: | Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983) • Lumière and Company (1995) • Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002, segment "We Wuz Robbed") •All the Invisible Children (2005, segment "Jesus Children of America") |
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