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This film not only provides a visual account of the outstanding efforts of The Tuskegee Airmen but also promotes their story in a way that all Americans should enjoy and share.

I found this movie to be heroic and daring and well acted and directed with wonderful visual effects.

Lucas admits, openly that the story of these airmen is an amalgamation of many stories of the actual airmen that fought for American lives during World War II.

Sadly, the day I went to see the movie in Chicago, off Harlem St. there were very few others in the theater to see it. What a waste. I know that it is hard to have an African-American cast as stars in this country because racism is so deeply seeded.

But films like Glory and this one show the true character of men that give their lives in spite of the horrible treatment they received by those that they were fighting for. Sadly, after the war, men of these men faced open discrimination and hostile welcomes.

These story was touching and emotional and made me cry.

I am not sure how this film was kept under the radar, so to speak, and I just happen to select it based upon the cast and crew. I was more than rewarded for an amazing story about life and time and mortality. Itis a film that has the ability to touch everyone of all ages yet it isn't childish or banal. It is a film that looks into the eyes of human existence and tries to give an answer that ties us all together with a sense of our lives beyond our lives.

Not as a exercise of a form of spirituality but as casual events of how our lives move forward based upon those we have known and those we will know.

This film should have a much greater profile as I would even put it ahead of the first Matrix movie for originality and depth.

I remember this show during the Summer of 1976, the year of our Bicentennial. As I recall it was a mostly concert and documentary style movie much in the style of how "This is Spinal Tap" would be come to be know as. Except, of course, for the fact that this is a real band and I was surprised to learn that is was written by Belushi and Akroyd. I do recall thinking this was the first time that I actually enjoyed hearing The Beach Boys music.

After this special there was the Jan and Dean special and several music related movies and specials including the "Elvis" movie with Kirk Russell.

Are there any other details that anyone else knows about this special?