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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The Tuskegee airmen / 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.

Publisher, Date:

[New York] : Home Box Office, [2010]

Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

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.

Target Audience Note:

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

Subjects:

United States. Air Force -- African Americans -- Drama.

United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Squadron, 99th -- Drama.

African American fighter pilots -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- African Americans -- Drama.

Genre:

War films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Feature films.

Other Author:

Carraro, William C.

Williams, Robert.

Cook, T. S. (Thomas S.), 1947-2013.

Qualles, Paris.

Ellis, Trey.

Hutchinson, Ron, 1947-

Markowitz, Robert.

Fishburne, Laurence, III, 1961-

Payne, Allen.

Warner, Malcolm-Jamal.

Vance, Courtney B.

Braugher, Andre.

McDonald, Christopher, 1955-

Lithgow, John, 1945-

Gooding, Cuba, Jr., 1968-

Holdridge, Lee, 1944-

HBO Films.

Price Entertainment (Firm)

Home Box Office (Firm)

Warner Home Video (Firm)

Notes:

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1995.

Special features: Cast & crew bios.

Director of photography, Ronald Orieux ; music, Lee Holdridge.

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

DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation, Dolby Digital surround, Dolby Digital stereo., Dolby Digital mono.

This DVD disc is copy protected.

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

ISBN:

1419896385

9781419896385

Publisher Number:

3000028911

Other Number:

625391774

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

739492

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Tuskegee