The Tuskegee Airmen - They Fought Two Wars
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DVD details
Artist: PbsDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Pbs Paramount
DVD Reviews of The Tuskegee Airmen - They Fought Two Wars
DVD Review: "It's their country, too!"
Summary: 5 Stars
The Tuskegee Airman - They Fought Two Wars - PBS, 60 min. (for a film of this historical event check out Laurence Fishburne's "The Tuskegee Airmen"
This documentary is a legacy to the men who fought two wars in WWII, the enemy abroad and racism at home. This documentary (along with others) is an important part to complementing the standard history books on American WWII era.
The Army had allowed the negros to try out for this flight program, only to see if the negro man was capable, mentally and physically, to make it thru pilot training. These were the elite of the African American community of those days, college educated negros. Negro is the term used during that era, and used in this review, only for historical purposes.
Starts off with the remaining living veterans aboard a bus going back to Tuskegee, Alabama - a veterans reunion. With scenes overlapping with recreated footage, one learns from the veterans what it was like to be a negro in pre-WWII America ("the white press did not publish anything favorable of the negros. The negros got their news and understood white America thru the black press"). The Intro. also mentions Bessy Coleman, as the first woman black pilot.
The vision the young educated negro cadets, to change their society thru their joined efforts to fight for their country and prove to white America that the negro man can fly and do a great job at that, is quite contagious. I could not, as a white Protestant, but just root for them and be glad that they proved their 1940 society, wrong.
SCENE SELECTIONS:
* Introduction
* Coming Home
* The Battle for the Right to Fight
* Welcome to Tuskegee
* Learning to Fly
* Winning their Wings
* Trial by Fire
* Victory for the Red Tails
* A Disappointing Homecoming
* An Everlasting Legacy
* Credits
It is so weird and ironic to learn, that today Tuskegee is a known town in Alabama, primarily because of the Tuskegee Airmen and the black Institute campus.
If you want to learn the real story, accurately, watch the PBS DVD (it is really well made). If you just want to watch a great film about a great story and with a plot that conveys the segregation and racism of the times (but without all the details being historically accurate), then watch the film by Laurence Fishburne. The PBS edition, also talks about what happened to the airmen after WWII, and one of the things mentioned is Truman's the bill for desegregation of the army.
The Tuskegee pilots of the 232 became known as the best in the business. Also, as "the Red Tails."
The message of this documentary is simply: "It's their country, too!"
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