History Film / TheTuskegeeAirmen

* LeeroyJenkins: After spotting some [=Bf-109=]s, Cappy, bored of ground-attack missions, breaks formation and rushes in to fight them. He manages to shoot one down, [[spoiler:but is in turn shot down and killed.]]

* AFatherToHisMen: Colonel Benjamin Davis. He greatly cares about the men about his command, defending them in an inquiry on whether the Tuskegee Airmen program should be shut down, and making sure the pilots know their mission is to survive and complete their mission, not seek glory.

* StandardHollywoodStrafingProcedure: The Airmen are initially tasked with ground-attack missions, and we see plenty of StockFootage of strafing attacks.

* JustPlaneWrong: The P-51s seen early in the movie are D-variants, with a bubble canopy. This variant did not exist until late 1943, well after the scenes with them training. In addition, the Airmen did not start off operating the P-51 in North Africa as depicted in the film; in real life, they started off operating the P-40 and P-39 Airacobra and then the P-47, with the P-51s not being received until mid-1944.

''The Tuskegee Airmen'' is a 1995 war film made by Creator/{{HBO}}, and starring Creator/LaurenceFishburne, Creator/CubaGoodingJr., Creator/CourtneyBVance, and Creator/JohnLithgow, amongst others. It tells the story of the 33nd Fighter Group, better known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to serve in the United States Army Air Corps during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.

* LeeroyJenkins: After spotting some [=Bf-109=]s, Cappy, bored of ground-attack missions, breaks formation and rushes in to fight them. He manages to shoot one down, [=spoiler:but is in turn shot down and killed.=]

''The Tuskegee Airmen'' is a 1995 war film made by Creator/{{HBO}}, and starring Creator/LaurenceFishburne, Creator/CubaGoodingJr., Creator/CourtneyBVance, and Creator/JohnLithgow, amongst others . It tells the story of the first African-American pilots to serve in the United States Army Air Corps during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, the Tuskegee Airmen.

* CompositeCharacter: The characters in the film are fictional composites of fellow airmen writer Robert Wayland Williams (an actual Tuskegee Airman) served with. The only exception is Benjamin O. Davis Jr., who would eventually become the first black brigadier general of the U.S. Air Force.

* CompositeCharacter: The characters in the film are fictional composites of fellow airmen writer Robert Wayland Williams (an actual Tuskegee Airmen) served with. The only exception is Benjamin O. Davis Jr., who would eventually become the first black brigadier general of the U.S. Air Force.

* {{Determinator}}: Despite two of his fellow cadets dying, Cadet Lee states that no one, including "the God damned Commander-In-Chief himself", will stop him from flying. The other cadets also arguably qualify, given that Major Joy is trying his hardest to make them fail.

* JustPlaneWrong: The P-51s seen early in the movie are D-variants, with a bubble canopy. This variant did not exist until late 1943, well after the scenes with them training. In addition, the Airmen did not start off operating the P-51 in North Africa as depicted in the film; in real life, they started off operating the P-39 Airacobra.
* LeeroyJenkins: After spotting some [=Bf-109=]s, Cappy, bored of ground-attack missions, breaks formation and rushes in to fight them. He manages to shoot one down, but is in turn shot down and killed.

''The Tuskegee Airmen'' is a 1995 war film made by Creator/{{HBO}}, and starring Creator/LaurenceFishburne, Creator/CubaGoodingJr., Creator/CourtneyBVance, and Creator/JohnLIthgow, amongst others . It tells the story of the first African-American pilots to serve in the United States Army Air Corps during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, the Tuskegee Airmen.

* JustPlaneWrong: The P-51s seen early in the movie are D-variants, with a bubble canopy. This variant did not exist until late 1943, well after the scenes with them training. In addition, the Airmen did not start off operating the P-51 in North Africa as depicted in the film; rather, they started operating the P-39 Airacobra.

* {{Determinator}}: Cadet Lee is aware that Joy is trying hard to make him and the other cadets fail, and states that no one, including "the God damned Commander-In-Chief himself", will stop him from flying.

* EagleSquadron: It turns out Lieutenant Glenn, the cadets' liaison officer, had joined the Royal Canadian Air Force (before the United States had officially entered World War II) and managed to score three kills in their service.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: A few of the cadets quit after [[spoiler:John gets killed in a crash]].

''The Tuskegee Airmen'' is a 1995 war film made by Creator/{{HBO}}, and starring Creator/LaurenceFishbourne, Creator/CubaGoodingJr., Creator/CourtneyBVance, and Creator/JohnLIthgow, amongst others . It tells the story of the first African-American pilots to serve in the United States Army Air Corps during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, the Tuskegee Airmen.