Flyboys (2006)

6.2	Listal rating
6.5	IMDB rating

Action (9), War (9), 2006 (6), Airplanes (5), Drama (4), World War 1 (4), Romance (3), Military (2), 2000s (1), 6.5 (1), Conflict (1), Disco12 (1), UK (1), Advanture (1), World War I (1), Usa (1), Historic (1), English (1), Risk (1), France (1)

Description

The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.

Directed by

Tony Bill

Starring (View all) :

Blaine Rawlings

Cinema Usher

Sheriff Detweiller

William Jensen

Mr. Jensen

Mrs. Jensen

Laura

Eugene Skinner

Jean-Philippe Écoffey

Skinner's trainer

Tim Pigott-Smith

Mr. Lowry

Written by (View all) :

Phil Sears

(screenplay)

Blake T. Evans

(screenplay) and

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	'Flyboys' movie trailer

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Ratings of Flyboys

6.2/10
74 global ratings

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Prelude

actually quite descent

Posted : 2 years, 2 months ago at Apr 11 23:53

This fictional WW1 dogfighting movie is 'loosely' based on the the Lafayette Escadrille squadraon, a French squadron that consisted of of American fighter pilots. And its true that casualities were heavy, but also true that did a lot of kills themselves, with 11 of them becoming aces. The 'loose' part is that the characters portrayed in the film are not based on any specific individuals. For example, the black pilot never was in Lafayette, although he was american and joined another french squadron, and after US entered WW1, he was barred from flying because he was black. So although he was never in this US squadron, I can see why writers of this film decided to lump him in, to tell a few historic stories all in one film withouth going into too much detail. And even though the aerial...Read more

Rating : 7/10

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