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| The Tuskegee Airmen | 
 enlarge | Director: Robert Markowitz
Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne, Malcolm-jamal Warner, Courtney B. Vance, Andre Braugher
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $9.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (52 reviews)
Sales Rank: 5671
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 106 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.6 x 0.6
MPN: HBOD91285D
ISBN: 0783118147
UPC: 026359128523
EAN: 9780783118147
ASIN: B000053V7E
Release Date: January 23, 2001
Theatrical Release Date: August 26, 1995
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Una pelicula formidable March 3, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Aparte de ser una gran pelicula, tiene un argumento de fondo muy importante sobre la discriminacion a la raza negra. Muy de moda en las elecciones de EEUU.
 Excellent male role models! January 21, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I used this movie for a Citizenship Group for adolescent boys with serious conduct and self-esteem issues. They not only watched it, but they were excited about the fact that the movie was based on real-life. Several have asked to have it shown again soon. I highly recommend it, especially for minority kids and adults.
Airmen Review December 3, 2007
This film is a wonderful movie about the Tuskegee Airmen. This is a great story about the development and implementation of Black pilots into flight school and eventually deploying their squadron into the front line during the Second World War. I don't know if the story is historically accurate, but it did make for an interesting and enjoyable movie. I would have liked to have seen more aerial footage of the pilots flying their mustangs into battle. I really liked seeing photographs of the actual Tuskagee Airmen.
The price paid for racism August 8, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Americans have paid a high price for their treatment of Blacks through the last century and a half. What has been lost in the worlds of business, the arts, medicine and science, can only be guessed at. Tuskegee Airmen gives some real, although narrow, insight into what was lost in WWII by a nation which continued to treat Blacks as an inferior people. Sadly, it wasn't just Americans who paid this price; the whole free world lost much because brave, highly skilled men were relegated to the backwaters of the war and not allowed to use their skills in the defense of freedom.
This movie is well acted. It makes no extravagant claims, speaks not in a loud demanding tone of voice and is all the more compelling because it simply lets the story tell itself.
The Tuskegee Airmen is a true story about real men who were ready and willing to help the fight against Germany and Japan, only to be rebuffed time and again, ignored by the buffoons sitting in the US Senate and Congress and at the top of the armed services.
That this band of pilots finally got into some form of combat is a testimony to their dedication and determination. This is a feel good/feel bad movie. I felt tremendous admiration at the courage and resilience these men showed, at the same time I felt a sense of despair in wondering how long the world will continue to waste talent and ability simply because of the color of someone's skin. Perhaps some progress is being made, in that such a story at least has been turned into a film that lays bare the stupidity and destructiveness of racism. I would recommend this film to anyone who wants some adventure and an interesting story mixed in with a history lesson.
Military film May 14, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great flic. Some liberties taken with regard to the Tuskeegee situation, but overall gives a fair representation of the attitudes of the time. Good action scenes,with a very good performance by Fishburne. Highly recommend the film.
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