“Charging Fort Wagner” - James Horner

This scene gets me every time.

That piece reminds me so much of the great melodic movie composers that are all but gone now, replaced mostly by inaudible, unemmorble hums and Hans Zimmer "atomospheric tones" clones.

Even as recent as the early 2000s, but really in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, was where that generation of composers shined.

Jerry Goldsmith. James Horner, John Williams, James Newton Howard, Basil Poledoures, Alan Silvestri, Bill Conti,
Howard Shore, Morricone, and even Danny Elfman all knew how to score a damn film to add quality and class.