History Banter Podcast, Episode 11: The Tuskegee Airmen in Film
This week, Brad Folsom and I (Cameron Sinclair) are joined by historian J. Todd Moye, the head of the Tuskegee Airmen Oral History project for the National Parks Service. For this podcast, we change format a little and look at the ways in which the Tuskegee Airmen, the famous World War II African-American pilots, have been represented in film from the 1945 Wings for This Man, narrated by Ronald Reagan, to the 2012 Red Tails, directed by George Lucas, but with with our primary emphasis on HBO’s The Tuskegee Airmen (1995). These films, mainly the latest two, weave together stories of World War II air combat, racism, and political conflict, to tell stories of personal triumph and the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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On the next podcast – Django Unchained (2012)
Intro music from this episode:
“Stop Breakin’ Down” from The Power and the Glory by Bill Mallonee
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