The Millionaire's Unit (2015)

Original title

The Millionaires' Unit

Directed by

Darroch Greer

Genre

war, documentary, history

Country

New Zealand, United Kingdom, France, Belgium

Runtime

2h

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary tells the story of a group of Yale students who learned to fly before America entered World War I. It shows how they became the first American fighter pilots and helped start the country's air force.

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What happens

The Millionaires' Unit is a 2015 American documentary film by Darroch Greer and Ron King about the First Yale Unit, a group of Yale college students who took the initiative to learn to fly in preparation for America's entry into the Great War. Based on a book by author Marc Wortman, the film is narrated by Academy Award-nominated actor Bruce Dern. It was filmed in the U.S., England, France, Belgium and New Zealand over the course of seven years. The documentary charts the romantic, little-known story of the origins of American airpower and features sequences filmed air-to-air with original WW1 planes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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