The Tuskegee Airmen
starring: Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Courtney B. Vance, Andre Braugher
directed by: Robert Markowitz
directed by: Robert Markowitz
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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783118147
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0783118147
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 23, 2001
Running Time: 106 minutes
Sales Rank: 2213
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 26, 1995
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Featuring an all-star cast headed by Laurence Fishburne, fireballs of high speed air action explode off the screen in this exciting story of the 'Fighting 99th,' the first squadron of black American pilots to be allowed to fight for their country. Based on the true story.
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This true story of the black flyers who broke the color barrier in the U.S. Air Force during World War II is a well-intentioned film highlighted by an excellent cast. Proud, solemn, Iowa-born Laurence Fishburne and city-kid hipster Cuba Gooding Jr. are among the hopefuls who meet en route to Tuskegee Air Force Base, where they are among the recruits for an 'experimental' program to 'prove' the abilities of the black man in the U.S. armed services. Fighting prejudice from racist officers and government officials and held to a consistently higher level of performance than their white counterparts, these men prove themselves in training and in combat, many of them dying for their country in the process. Andre Braugher costars as a West Point graduate who takes charge of the unit in Africa and in Italy (where it's christened the 332nd). The film is rousing, if slow starting and episodic, but it's periodically grounded by a host of war movie clichés, notably the calculated demise of practically every trainee introduced in the opening scenes (ironic given the 332nd's real-life combat record--high casualties for the enemy, low casualties among themselves, and no losses among the bombers they escorted). Ultimately the Emmy-nominated performances by moral backbone Fishburne and the dedicated Braugher and the energy and cocky confidence of Gooding give their battles both on and off the battlefield the sweet taste of victory. --Sean Axmaker
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