4 real historical locations · Italy
Spike Lee's film about four African-American Buffalo Soldiers trapped in a Tuscan village in 1944. Based on James McBride's novel, it explores the experience of Black American soldiers fighting for a freedom denied to them at home.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Italy.
Spike Lee's 2008 film set against the massacre at Sant'Anna di Stazzema — Buffalo Soldiers of the 92nd Infantry Division encounter a Nazi atrocity in a Tusca...
On 12 August 1944, SS troops massacred 560 civilians at Sant'Anna di Stazzema as a reprisal against partisans — the victims included 130 children. The 92nd Infantry Division ('Buffalo Soldiers') was the only Black Ame...
View location →The mountain village where 560 Italian civilians were massacred by the SS on August 12, 1944 — the atrocity that haunts the film's Buffalo Soldiers.
The Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre killed 560 civilians including 130 children. The youngest victim was 20 days old. The SS 16th Panzergrenadier Division committed the massacre. German courts convicted ten former SS m...
View location →The Tuscan coastal town near the Gothic Line where the 92nd Infantry Division — the Buffalo Soldiers — operated against entrenched German positions.
The all-Black 92nd Infantry Division fought along the Gothic Line in Tuscany from late 1944 into 1945. Despite fighting bravely, the division was poorly supported and criticized by some commanders — a reflection of th...
View location →The river line where the Gothic Line began — crossed by Buffalo Soldiers pushing north against the German Winter Line.
The Gothic Line ran from the Ligurian coast across the Apennines to the Adriatic. Its western anchor was near the Arno River. The Allied offensive to breach it in autumn 1944 stalled in the mountains as winter set in,...
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