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The Tuskegee Airmen [Blu-ray]

Laurence Fishburne (Actor), Allen Payne (Actor), Robert Markowitz (Director) Rated:
PG-13
Format: Blu-ray
4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 4,056 ratings
IMDb7.1/10.0
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Genre Action & Adventure
Format NTSC, AC-3, Dubbed, Subtitled, Multiple Formats, Dolby, Widescreen, Blu-ray
Contributor Chris McDonald, T.S. Cook, Frank Price, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Ron Hutchinson, Allen Payne, John Lithgow, Robert Markowitz, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Robert Williams, Andre Braugher, Paris Qualles, Trey Ellis, William C. Carraro, Courtney B. Vance, Laurence Fishburne See more
Initial release date 2012-01-17
Language English
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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. It is 1943 and the Germans are winning the Second World War, as the U.S. suffers 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 are not welcomed in the Air Force. Now, through the brutal demands of their training, to the perils of flying over nations at war, the men they call "The Tuskegee Airmen" must undertake the riskiest mission of their lives – to prove to America that courage knows no color. Their success could earn them respect, save lives, and help win a terrible war. Their failure could destroy more hopes and dreams than their own.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.77:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.5 x 5.7 x 7 inches; 0.01 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ HBO1000201242BR
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Robert Markowitz
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, AC-3, Dubbed, Subtitled, Multiple Formats, Dolby, Widescreen, Blu-ray
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 46 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ January 17, 2012
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Courtney B. Vance, Andre Braugher
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ French, English, Spanish
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Frank Price, William C. Carraro
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 4.0), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital-Plus 2.0), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Spanish (Dolby Digital-Plus 2.0)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ HBO Studios
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005411P6I
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Paris Qualles, Trey Ellis, Ron Hutchinson, Robert Williams, T.S. Cook
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 4,056 ratings

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4.8 out of 5 stars
4.8 out of 5
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Interesting take on a very important time in our country ...
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Interesting take on a very important time in our country ...
Interesting take on a very important time in our country. On February 20th 2016, I was honored to be in attendance at Lt. Col. Bob Friend's 96th birthday party. Bob is the oldest living Tuskegee Airman. Unreal what they went through. Listening to Rusty Burns who by the way is the youngest living Tuskegee Airman talk at Bob's party they went through hell and he said to those in attendance that they fought hard to get to be able to fight for our country, they were at the top of there game but when they returned home NOTHING had changed prejudice was still all around. These men broke the barriers for those that followed.
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Ebru Gultekin
5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2024
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Great look into an important area of World War II history
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Kimberly J Taylor
5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie.
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2024
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Very touching.
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David M Turner
5.0 out of 5 stars Quality
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2024
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Good movie
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Luis
5.0 out of 5 stars Aviación
Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2024
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Esta es la original y es mejor que la moderna.
Presenta claramente l diferencia y la superación de los problemas entre razas.
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George F.
5.0 out of 5 stars Cold day
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2024
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Good movie to watch on a cold day
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4.0 out of 5 stars Aircraft Action
Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2024
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Being a retired pilot myself, I found this movie’s flying action excellent!
I also sympathize with the racism the young pilots had to overcome. Tears came into my eyes when other pilots came to realize that they could be equal!
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Dwight Currie
5.0 out of 5 stars Brave and Valiant Fighter Pilots....Nothing Less can be said of them, by anybody.
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2019
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As a White Southerner, born in rural Georgia in 1950 and growing up during Jim Crow and seeing first hand, the Yoke of Segregation, I would like to believe that the Racism and Denigration that these Brave Fliers experienced was all a part of Hollywood and didn't really happen to that degree.....On the other hand, I know better. I saw it happening on the ground, if not in Military Aviation, first hand, nonetheless. I also remember that African Americans could not vote in their own country until The Voting Rights Act was made into law in 1965. Twenty years after WWII ended, and in certain areas, it took more years to make that "Right" that men like the Tuskegee Airmen had paid for, in many cases, with their lives, a fact of every day life
I don't feel guilt that these things happened. I had nothing to do with it, but I do feel shame for my country, at the reality of it all, but barring a Time Machine, I cannot go back to WWII and help to right that wrong.
There is absolutely nothing I can do to erase what happened to The Tuskegee Airmen and other African American Troops during WWII and afterward for decades.
The only thing I can do is live as a decent honorable Southern Man and treat all men as my equal in every respect of every day life.
This was an excellent Film about Real American Heroes who served their country Honorably and well.
The one thing that strikes me as inaccurate is that every Racist these men encountered were all Southern Hillbilly Peckerheads, when, in fact many Whites from The North willfully and with pleasure treated our African American Troops just as indecently as some Southerners did. Maybe more Southerners behaved in such a reprehensible manner than those from the North, but the Northerners most certainly did their part to treat them like Pieces Of Inferior Sub Human Garbage, just like the Southerners.
Other that inaccuracy, this was a fine film showcasing real American Heroes, and the ensemble cast did a most excellent job in their portrayals of the Heroic Tuskegee Airmen. I have seen this Movie several times and will definitely see it again
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Lenny
5.0 out of 5 stars Got it for my Military History-Loving Grandma
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2023
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I bought this on a whim because my grandmother actually wanted another movie, as I know she hadn't heard of the backstory of the people the movie was based on, despite being a southerner herself. She wound up binning the other movie, and this one actually took her down a path of research she didn't expect.

Have not watched the movie myself, so I cannot say how close to the history it was based on is, but if it got her shooting off into another voracious information hunt at the library, I'd say it was a good purchase.
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José Antonio
5.0 out of 5 stars MOTIVADORA E INSPIRADORA
Reviewed in Mexico on November 29, 2022
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Me gustó mucho... Llegó a tiempo. Un gran contenido fotográfico...
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Reviewed in Mexico on November 29, 2022
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D J Jackson: Passionate about Film.
5.0 out of 5 stars OUTSTANDING WW2 STORY ~ BATTLING THE SYSTEM.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 25, 2023
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This is a review of the 2012 Blu-ray from HBO Home Video. This is a note-worthy product, so I will describe it in some detail.

Firstly, the film (which looks and sounds seriously good) plays in 16:9, in 1080p HD. The sound is DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1. And it comes in a book cover, containing a short explanatory essay and masses of original photos of the actual Tuskegee airmen. This is a very superior product, worth every penny.

We originally owned a (pretty good) Region 1 DVD, but our Blu-ray player was not multi-region so it had to be replaced. After some careful research, I bought this product, because it was advertised as suitable for UK and European Blu-ray players. Imagine my horror to discover, upon receipt, that the disc cover was labelled Region A. So I tried it out, and thankfully, the sales material was correct, and it played perfectly on our Region B2 equipment. So, ignore the Region A rating on the wrapping, this is apparently Multi Region.

This is also an unusual product, because it is not a standard cinema release, but a ‘made for TV’ movie, from 1995, from that doyen of TV production, HBO. And it exhibits all the hallmarks of an HBO production ~ quality of cinematography; quality of script; quality of cast; quality of overall production values. It is a 106 minute film, and personally, the sole downside that I can suggest, is that it was never shown on the ‘big screen’, because it would have looked fabulous, screened in the cinema.

So, this is a true story of aviators in the US Army Air Corps in WW2, but it is as different as possible from the usual rah-rah, gung-ho stories of ‘their brave boys’. These aviators are battling against the odds, but the odds are not (just) German pilots in Messerschmitts, and flak from German Anti-Aircraft guns. It is many of the officers and men in their own organisation, not to mention bigoted politicians. It is the system, the society, the racial bias in the US then, and of course, far later, despite the actions, the bravery, of men such as those portrayed.

These are Americans, all of them University graduates or students, who want to fly for the US, during a war against a despicable enemy. But these men are Black Americans, at a time when ‘scientists’ were actually suggesting there was ‘scientific evidence’ they were intellectually inferior (a ghastly idea, covered in the film). More than that, white servicemen, particularly from the South, resisted the idea of fighting alongside them, were even offended to discover their lives had been saved by them! How blinkered and narrow-minded, and just plain stupid and insulting, can people be? The film tackles these issues head-on, in a number of different ways, but never in a hectoring, pushy manner. It will, at times, leave you feeling desperately sad, and totally mystified and bemused. It will also, like any good War film, have you cheering.

A first-rate ensemble cast, headed by the desperately under-rated Laurence Fishburne, are excellent in this. The characters come alive in front of you. And the exciting action scenes are brilliantly filmed.

This is a first rate movie, as both a War film, and as a story of the battle for social justice. 5 resounding Stars.
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regaert patrick
5.0 out of 5 stars Bien
Reviewed in France on December 29, 2020
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Cheryle Dolman
5.0 out of 5 stars How History is so distorted
Reviewed in Australia on January 6, 2019
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These are men who wanted to fight for their country and were treated like second class citizens, unbelievable.
America you have a lot to answer for. There are many more incidents akin to this. Black sailors had to sail on ships that were all black only. What? they were going to make the white sailor dirty.

The army was no better with their black only units. It does not matter what color skin you have, you are still a person. These very brave men fought and die just the same as white men and they have to fight a corrupt system as well. That makes them doubly brave two wars at once.
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Melvyn
4.0 out of 5 stars A good film with great actors
Reviewed in Germany on May 13, 2015
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I have seen this film years ago and now I found it. It has good actors in a historical set. Especially where the leader of the bombersquadron
first deny that he got help from black fighter pilots and then ask for them in a big bomber raid.
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