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When movie producers can't even get the historical uniforms right, it's a sign they don't care about the film and just want to make a fast buck. And it's a shame because there some beautiful cinematography going on here, so someone involved in the production cared.

Just for future reference, West Point cadets didn't wear kepis in 1830. The kepi didn't show up in the US military for another 35 years. At this point, the cadets should be wearing the 1825 forage cap, which looked nothing like a kepi. The least the costume department could have done was get the hats right. Seems the producers had a bunch of civil war costumes laying around, and just decided to use them, instead of doing the bare minimum to get it right.

I'm seeing a lot of black berets in this movie. The problem is, they're not accurate. Clearly the makers of this movie purchased a lot of modern military berets for the film. Unfortunately, these berets are nothing like the berets the black Panthers wore back in the day. Today's military berets have a smaller crown and they're much stiffer, so they need a lot of work to get them to sit right on a person's head. The berets the Black Panthers wore were bigger, softer, and with a bigger crown.

Also, Fred Hampton wore hats, but I've never seen any photo of him wearing a black beret. He may have worn one on occasion, but it was clearly not a hat he liked to wear.

If the movie makers can't get details like this right, I worry that they'll get other details wrong too. At some point, I hope Fred Hampton gets the movie bio he deserves, but I have doubts that this is it.