The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)

Directors

Robert Markowitz

Cast

Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Courtney B. Vance, Andre Braugher

The story

During World War II, Hannibal "Iowa" Lee Jr. travels by train to Tuskegee, Alabama for military flight training, along with fellow African-American flight cadets Billy "A-Train" Roberts, Leroy Cappy, Walter Peoples III, and Lewis Johns. Colonel Noel Rogers, the base commander, welcomes the cadets, but his director of training, Major Sherman Joy, maintains that African-Americans aren't suitable to serve as military pilots.

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