Red Tails (2012)

Directed by

Anthony Hemingway

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 05m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 719 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

During World War II, a group of African American fighter pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen fight racism at home while flying dangerous missions in Italy. The film follows their struggles to be respected as equals and their battles against enemy forces.

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What happens

Red Tails is a 2012 American war film directed by Anthony Hemingway in his feature directorial debut, and starring Terrence Howard and Cuba Gooding Jr. The film is about the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African-American United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) servicemen based at Ramitelli Airfield in southern Italy during World War II. The characters in the film are fictional, although based on real individuals. The film was produced by Lucasfilm Ltd. and released by 20th Century Fox, and would be the last film Lucasfilm released before being purchased by The Walt Disney Company nine months later. This was Gooding's first theatrically released film in five years since his starring role in 2007's Daddy Day Camp. John Ridley wrote the screenplay. Additional material was shot the following year with executive producer George Lucas as director and Aaron McGruder as writer of the reshoots. It was filmed in March and July 2009. Red Tails was a personal project for Lucas, one that he had originally conceived in 1988. It is the first Lucasfilm production since the 1994 film Radioland Murders that is not associated with the Indiana Jones or Star Wars franchises. Terrence Howard had previously portrayed a Tuskegee pilot in Hart's War (2002), and Cuba Gooding Jr. had previously starred in The Tuskegee Airmen (1995), an HBO made-for-television film about the same group of pilots. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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