Exclusive Featurette from Apple TV+ series Masters of the Air on the Tuskegee Airmen
Blackfilmandtv.com has been provided with an exclusive featurette from Apple TV+ series "Masters of the Air," which is Apple TV+’s most-watched series launch ever.
Hailing from executive producers Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, the series features a stellar cast led by Academy Award nominee Austin Butler, Callum Turner, Anthony Boyle, Nate Mann, Rafferty Law, Academy Award nominee Barry Keoghan, Josiah Cross, Branden Cook and Ncuti Gatwa.
Based on Donald L. Miller’s book of the same name, and scripted by John Orloff, “Masters of the Air” follows the men of the 100th Bomb Group (the “Bloody Hundredth”) as they conduct perilous bombing raids over Nazi Germany and grapple with the frigid conditions, lack of oxygen and sheer terror of combat conducted at 25,000 feet in the air. Portraying the psychological and emotional price paid by these young men as they helped destroy the horror of Hitler’s Third Reich, is at the heart of “Masters of the Air.” Some were shot down and captured; some were wounded or killed. And some were lucky enough to make it home. Regardless of individual fate, a toll was exacted on them all.
Directed by Dee Rees (Pariah, Mudbound), the final two episodes will delve into the key storyline of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first Black military pilots and airmen to fight in World War II.
