The Tuskegee airmen

Resource Information

The work The Tuskegee airmen represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Dallas Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The Tuskegee airmen

Statement of responsibility

HBO Films presents a Price Entertainment production, a film by Robert Markowitz ; produced by William C. Carraro ; story by Robert Williams and T.S. Cook ; teleplay by Paris Qualles, Trey Ellis and Ron Hutchinson ; directed by Robert Markowitz

Contributor

• HBO Films
• Home Box Office (Firm)
• Price Entertainment (Firm)
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Braugher, Andre
• Carraro, William C
• Cook, T. S., (Thomas S.), 1947-2013
• Ellis, Trey
• Fishburne, Laurence, III, 1961-
• Gooding, Cuba, Jr., 1968-
• Holdridge, Lee, 1944-
• Hutchinson, Ron, 1947-
• Lithgow, John, 1945-
• Markowitz, Robert
• McDonald, Christopher, 1955-
• Payne, Allen
• Qualles, Paris
• Vance, Courtney B
• Warner, Malcolm-Jamal
• Williams, Robert

Subject

• 1939 - 1945
• Aeronautics, American military
• African American fighter pilots
• African American fighter pilots -- Drama
• African Americans
• Aviadores -- Estados Unidos -- Teatro
• Drama
• Estados Unidos. Air Force -- Afronorteamericanos -- Teatro
• Feature films
• United States, Air Force
• United States, Air Force -- African Americans -- Drama
• United States, Army Air Forces | Fighter Squadron, 99th
• United States, Army Air Forces | Fighter Squadron, 99th -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• War films
• World War (1939-1945)
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American -- Drama
• World War, 1939-1945 -- African Americans -- Drama

Genre

• Drama
• Feature films
• Teatro
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• War films

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

The story of the 'Fighting 99th' - the first squadron of black American pilots to be allowed to fight for their country. It is 1943 and the U.S. is suffering huge losses on the ground and in the air. Four newly recruited pilots are united by a desire to serve their country, at a time when black flyers were not welcomed in the Air Force. Now, the "Tuskegee Airmen" must undertake the riskiest mission of their lives and to prove to America that courage knows no color

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Ronald Orieux ; music, Lee Holdridge

Dewey number

791.45/72

Intended audience

• MPAA rating: PG-13; for thematic elements and brief strong war violence ;
• CHV rating: G

Language note

English (Dolby surround), dubbed French (Dolby stereo.) or dubbed Spanish (Dolby mono.) dialogue, English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.T87 2010

PerformerNote

Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Courtney B. Vance, Andre Braugher, Chris McDonald, John Lithgow, Cuba Gooding, Jr

Runtime

106

Technique

live action