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Red Tails - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Red Tails is a 2012 American war film produced by Lucasfilm and released by 20th Century Fox. The film is a fictionalized portrayal of the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American United States Army Air Force (USAAF) servicemen during World War II

Plot

In 1944, after enduring racism throughout their recruitment and training in the Tuskegee training program, the 332d Fighter Group of young African American USAAF fighter pilots are finally sent into combat in Italy, although flying worn-out Curtiss P-40 Warhawk aircraft. Chafing at their ground attack missions against trains and enemy ground transport, the Tuskegee Airmen recognize that they may never fight the Luftwaffe in fighter-to-fighter combat. The tight-knit group of Capt. Martin "Easy" Julian (Nate Parker), Lt. Joe "Lightning" Little (David Oyelowo), Ray "Ray Gun" or "Junior" Gannon (Tristan Wilds), and Samuel "Joker" George (Elijah Kelley) under the guidance of Major Emanuel Stance (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) and Col. A.J. Bullard (Terrence Howard), face a white military bureaucracy still resistant to accepting black flyers as equals.

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If I post a movie on my blog, it's not necessarily that I enjoyed the movie; just something in the movie clicked with me.  Red Tails I did enjoy.

Other movies I enjoyed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_Purple_(film)

 Filmed in Anson and Union counties in North Carolina, the film tells the story of a young African American girl named Celie and shows the problems African American women faced during the early 1900s, including poverty, racism, and sexism. Celie is transformed as she finds her self-worth through the help of two strong female companions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Soldier's_Story

 A black officer is sent to investigate the murder of a black sergeant in Louisiana near the end of World War II. It is a story about racism and segregation in a black U.S Army regiment with white officers deep in the Jim Crow South, in a time and place where a black officer is unprecedented and bitterly resented by nearly everyone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heart_Specialist

A modern comedy about the everyday perils of first year medical residents at a shabby south Florida hospital. Wood Harris is the Chief Resident, who teaches the trainees how to save lives and not take themselves too seriously, all the while hiding a chilling secret of his own.

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A Soldier's Story, me an my mother watched together a long time ago on one of my visits home.

My mother enjoyed it so much, she brought up the topic to her lady friends during a game of bridge.  I remember her being shocked, as she told me their story, of her friends having no interest in watching the movie only because it was from a Negro's perspective.

The Color Purple altogether a different story.  Mother didn't like that movie because of the lesbian insinuation between two characters.

Same reason she didn't like Fried Green Tomatoes...

 another movie I loved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_Green_Tomatoes_(film)

 It tells the story of a Depression-era friendship between two women, Ruth and Idgie, and a 1980s friendship between Evelyn, a middle-aged housewife, and Ninny, an elderly woman who knew Ruth and Idgie. The centerpiece and parallel story concerns the murder of Ruth's abusive husband and the accusations that follow.

The film received a generally positive reception from film critics and was nominated for two Academy Awards. The filmmakers drew criticism from some reviewers for removing the lesbian content of the book's plot, but the film won a GLAAD Media Award for "best lesbian content".