Notable Appearances in Popular Culture
- Wings for This Man (1945), a propaganda short about the Tuskegee Airmen, was produced by the First Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Forces. The film was narrated by Ronald Reagan.
- The Tuskegee Airmen (1995), a film starring Laurence Fishburne, was produced and aired by HBO.
- "The Tuskegee Airmen", an episode of the documentary TV series Dogfights, was originally aired on the History Channel on 6 December 2007.
- The Tuskegee Airmen (1997) are represented in the G.I. Joe action figure series.
- The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys who Flew the B-24s over Germany (2001), a book by Stephen Ambrose, describes the Tuskegee Airmen in a tribute to their achievements.
- Hart's War is a 2002 film about a Tuskegee Airman accused of murdering another American serviceman in a German POW Camp
- In Aaron McGruder's television series, The Boondocks, a main character and his friend being former Tuskegee Airmen is central to the plot of the episode Wingmen.
- Silver Wings & Civil Rights: The Fight to Fly (2004) is a documentary that was the first film to feature information regarding the "Freeman Field Mutiny", the struggle of 101 African-American officers arrested for entering a white officer's club.
- Red Tail Reborn is a documentary film about the restoration of an airplane that was flown by the Tuskegee Airmen and its use as a flying memorial to them.
- Red Tails is a film about the Tuskegee Airmen by George Lucas released in January 2012. The film was written by John Ridley and Aaron McGruder and directed by Anthony Hemingway.
- Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) prominently features the Tuskegee Airmen. One of the Airmen, played by Keith Powell, narrates the group's activities in a stentorian voice ("The Tuskegee Airmen are on the runway once again!"). Another one of the Airmen (Craig Robinson) says to Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams), "A lot of people didn't think we could fly, either ... thanks for clearing the runway for us."
- In the episode "The Brown Bombshell" of the sitcom Family Matters Estelle Winslow tries to tell of her late husband, a Tuskegee Airman, to her family who are uninterested. However this changes when she gives a presentation to Eddie Winslow's American History class.
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