The Tuskegee Airmen Film Analysis

The movie “The Tuskegee Airmen”, made in 1995, follows a African-American man, Hannibal Lee, as he gets accepted to be part of the Tuskegee Airmen. On his way to the base, he meets many black and white soldiers, training to become pilots for air battles. Lee made many friends and also enemies while staying at the base. The white soldiers are always putting down Lee and his comrades, saying how blacks can’t do anything to help the war. However, as World War II progresses, the African men prove to everyone that they can do the same thing as the white men, giving them a reputation as the Tuskegee Airmen. In the movie, these black men assisted their country while going through many discriminations and deaths of many friends.
This film portrays

the experience of the Tuskegee Airmen as inspirational and very accurate. Back in the days, there was a lot of racism between black and white people. Even though with all the bad-talking and discrimination, Lee and his comrades continue on with their training and learning how to fly planes to help with the war. This is an accurate experience of what happened during the real war because the movie was based on a true story of the Tuskegee men. For example, when Lee and the others first arrived at Tuskegee, Major Joy was being racist towards the men, mocking them when Walter Peoples said “To serve for my country, Sir.” Joy was mocking the blacks because there was no place where the black people can call a country “theirs” when others are bullying them. My reaction to the experience was shocking because I found it very intriguing when Lee and his friends never gave up on their dreams after suffering many losses of friends and discriminations.
After watching the film, I only learned about the rise of the Tuskegee Airmen and not really much about the war itself. The movie taught me about Eleanor Roosevelt actually wanting to fly with Lee, a black soldier, rather than the general or majors. This taught me how there are some people that are not racist. The movie also showed the Berlin mission, where the soldiers went to Germany and fought in a dog fight. At the end, they destroyed three planes. Throughout the whole movie, I found it very interesting and exciting to see what would happen next. It is a movie where I would recommend to watch because it teaches me about how Americans fought in the war and how terrible it is when a comrade dies. The best part of the film is when Lee got a medal after fighting in World War II. On the other hand, the worst part, in my opinion, was when Billy Roberts died. This is because he was my favorite person and before he died, he sang a song, which makes it even sadder. Overall, this is one of the best history films that I have watched.