Masters of the Air. Season 1. Episode 9. We were the true masters of the air.
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- čas přidán 14. 03. 2024
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A series from Apple. During WWII, five miles above the ground and behind enemy lines, ten men inside a bomber known as a "Flying Fortress" battle unrelenting flocks of German fighters.
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"It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed."
- U.S. Air Force Marshal
lol
Que aria en una guerra sin entenderse el idioma
In real life, Rosie was actually shot down TWICE (Sep 1944 + Feb 1945) and he made it back each time. He completed 52 combat missions and earned 16 decorations.
He passed away peacefully in 2007. RIP.
I was wondering why the first time being shot down wasnt shown
@@miliba Prob pissed off these armchair nerds thinking its chuck norris stuff
@@miliba Probably didnt have enough time to show it
@@Daniel-de2jh yeah the whole series / pacing felt rushed. loved it otherwise
@@camiloteram Agree. Pacing does seem to be an issue with TV series these days. Surprised with the low number of eps when first known. Usually feels like 12 eps minimum. I would have loved to have completely seen how evading the nazis when shot down worked out. You can only do so much I guess.
"We're NOT bailing over Berlin"
Can't really argue that, right?
this is youtube we can argue anything.
@@tedcrilly46 oh yeah, and in the fourth turn the flaming will start massively 😃
“We were the true Masters of the Air, Season 1, Episode 9 (2024).”
tee vee
lol
JRR Martin did it again!
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Thanks for giving us this clip :)
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Thank you and may the force be with you
@@redeyejedi3700hello there... and thanks for your comment!
Sorry Sir...What name Movies..?
My uncle Elvin was a tail gunner, horrible PTSD, loud noises set him off! ( screaming, yelling and throwing stuff!)
He was a friend of Snuffy Smith, (Maynard Harrison "Snuffy" Smith was a United States Army Air Forces staff sergeant! "Medal of Honor" receiver"
"Couldn't do a Damm thing right, except when it counted!" Elvin said.
(Snuffy too, suffered terrible PTSD!) When Secretary of Defence, came to give Smith his medal, they couldn't find him? He was on KP. peeling potatoes, punishment detail!😅 (Wikipedia covers this, kind of!)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_Harrison_Smith
Was he with the 306 at Thurleigh? If so would love to hear more about him as I volunteer at the museum there.
Henry Stimson was Secretary of War when he presented Smith the MoH.
2:34 wish there we're more perspectives like this in the show and the CGI bombers here actually look decent as well
Looks to be a hit or miss show.
Sad knowing both the Pacific and BoB were great shows in everything.
@@molanohouseyea man so much wasted potential for this show i do like it but wouldn't recommend anyone else to watch it
@@Phantom-uk2ndpacific is bland as hell. the worse of the three
Bland?!
The first casualties we see are two tortured marines, one with his genitals cut off and put in the others mouth (whose head has been cut off).
If you think that is bland then I'm not sure what will please you!@@tygrenvoltaris4782
WE'RE OKAY LUKE, LOOKS LIKE WE-- *BANG*
Crosbys narration in the beginning. stunning "We were the true masters of the air"
Yeah the delivery is just perfect.
The only problem is that it isn't true!
This raid is in February 1945. The Luftwaffe shot down many Allied aircraft in the coming weeks.
Claiming to be masters of the air is an insult to those airmen who died in the last weeks of the war.
@@CzechImp i think its just a reference to how they had ABSOLUTE air superiority during the ending months of the war. even their allies are dwarfed by the armadas that the USAAF put out during that time.
@@CzechImp By February 1945, the Luftwaffe was going through its death throes, though they still threw up surges of resistance here and there. They simply didn't have enough experienced pilots left, on top of suffering from serious fuel shortages and Allied fighter pilots making a point of attacking German airfields. The majority of USAAF losses by this point in the war were due to anti-air artillery.
@@Raguleader True. But they were still flying and shooting down Allied planes - hence "masters of the air" is simply not true.
Quite decent VFX in this one, especially during the Dutch humanitarian food drop
Very interesting to read and also important background information. Thank you for that.
They were mixed, B17-C,G,E ECT throughout the war! My Neighbor John Mass, was a recovery mechanic with 8th! He went out to crashed bombers, cleaning out blood and body parts, repairing them in farmer's fields, put JATO rockets on them popping them up, back to flying again! 😢 Haunted him, till the day he died! Asked to work in aircraft maintenance, he worked on boats, after the war!
My uncle Elvin was a tail gunner, horrible PTSD, loud noises set him off! He was a friend of Snuffy Smith, (Maynard Harrison "Snuffy" Smith was a United States Army Air Forces staff sergeant! "Medal of Honor" receiver"
"Couldn't do a Damm thing right, except when it counted!" Elvin said.
(Snuffy too, suffered terrible PTSD!) When Secretary of Defence, came to give Smith his medal, they couldn't find him? He was on KP. peeling potatoes, punishment detail!😅 (Wikipedia covers this, kind of!)
1:14 I know this may look weird, but the Germans did employ surface to air "Taifun" rockets. Originally they were trying to work on surface to air *missiles*, "Wasserfall," but it was a bit of a mess. One of the guys that worked on that program instead proposed designs for a simpler rocket in the latter half of 1944. Wikipedia says production began January and 600 were made but never used.
Though the Germans never used their Taifun rockets in anger, the US did get a hold of the technology and based off the Taifun, made the Loki rockets.
P-51D Mustang's in that "Big Beautiful Doll" checkerboard nose paint scheme. My personal favorite next to the Red Tails and the Blue Nosed Bastards of the 352nd.
The Checkerboard pattern denotes the 78th FG, flying from Duxford in Cambridgeshire
In 1945 most of the USAF bombers were B-17Gs, I only see E and F versions in the scenes, which were mostly in olive green and most of the G versions were in natural polished silver. Somehow it's not really depicted perfectly.
This is correct, but time and budget constraints meant they had to roll with what they had. The full sized, real, B-17 they had for ground shots was an F. So they had to stick to the F.
Still, it doesn't take away from the over all spectacle.
Couldn't that have been changed in this day and age using computer animation?!
@@stefanjost259Imagine having a $250M budget and still not much work has been done on the CGI. I dunno where they poured the money onto most if not the CGI. So much potential, very little effort. I won't say that the CGI in the entire show is 100% bad, because there are very nice scenes.
I don't really agree with the current possibilities of computer animation that could have been used. We must not forget that this is not twenty or thirty years ago when these options would have really cost a fortune. Even if the production had a fixed budget, the visuals would still have had to be closer to the reality of the time because the relationship between the crews could not really be represented correctly. I don't have the slightest doubt about the work for this excellent acting and performance, but for me it falsifies the reality of that time.
@@stefanjost259 With the delays due to COVID and the rushed production, it is very clear that something has fallen between the chairs and things were either overlooked or weren't given enough thought process. That is why MotA, as a show that depicts a set of WWII events dedicated to American air crews, has not been fulfilled accordingly, which really saddens me.
I really loved the final episode. Nate Mann was especially incredible.
can you belive its like his 4th movie he's in?
@@Turbulencje Wow. Incredible.
he was made for this role
4:33
I’m willing to bet that popped up in his nightmares. Jesus
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Yeeeesssss....you were the MASTERS! Up there in the skies....
This show really belongs a big screen. Big as the sky.
The Tuskegee Airmen were just tokens in this series. Before it aired, I thought they would show them escorting bombers, but all they did was get shot down and be prisoners.
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I agree with you. Pretty sure they’re setting up a future Tuskegee series.
The Series was about the Bombers not their escorts.
Anyone else notice the pirate mug on a shelf in the final episode? Nod to 12 o'clock high??
That is a really good observation there. Thank you for your comment. Have a wonderful day!
I missed that! Will have to watch it again. Loved that movie!
@@whaaat3632It's a series mate. only 1 season. Thank you for commenting. Have a wonderful day!
I just recently learned that Jimmy Stewart had PTSD from flying missions😢
Such a good show! Love the return to air in the finale 💙
Sorry to burst your bubble but the "return to the air" was made up corny BS that didn't happen. That finale, the ignoring crucial events and the made up crap was kind of insulting to what these men endured.
Relax and enjoy the series
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Awesome 🤩👌
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@@Perfectblue33 😅ok thanks
Wow!
Shouldn’t these 17’s be G models?
If I remember correctly, the 100th still were stuck with older models
@@stopmotionwarehouse8986Yes
Yes but they built their expensive B17 set on an f model and clearly didn't want to change it all mid series
@@stopmotionwarehouse8986Where did you see this?
Also at the beginning you can see the USAAF roundel is still that of summer 1942-summer 1943
ディズニープラスでこういう海外ドラマやってくれー
1:15 Did the Germans have surface to air rockets in WW2? What are those supposed to be? A quick search brought me to the Taifun rocket though it states that that was never deployed operationally.
Maybe 21cm air to air rocket
www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DZVXCR56F4Pc&ved=2ahUKEwiXmKTIpISFAxVEmq8BHSauCo8QwqsBegQIDRAF&usg=AOvVaw36dd6Ai4-_YZqC9cZrXSsF
No, as far as I know. German fighters, especially twin-engine ones, sometimes fired off a salvo of air-to-air rockets at bombers in formation. Not very accurate but sometimes they hit bombers and also disrupted formations.
the germans had unguided anti air rockets in 1945 as a last ditch effort, at this time in the wat the german air force was gone@@stevekaczynski3793
German fighters could launch (or better, lob) missiles into US bomber formations, preferably from behind.
As these rockets did not have any proximity fuses, they would detonate after a given time.
Meaning that only expert Luftwaffe pilots like Galland were able to use these rockets effectively.
If you launched them from the front, the rockets would probably go through the whole formation before exploding.
These rockets did not fly well, which is why they were lobbed into the formations, falling through and losing altitude rapidly.
I once read an account of an ace Luftwaffe pilot actually downing a P-51 with such a rocket, which seems unbelievable to me.
*WWII US Bombers: Masters of the Air-Rocket Usage, shooting down bombers with questionable weapons and tactics*
Looks like a video game from 10 years ago. No wonder HBO passed.
Книга "Бомбардировщик" Лен Дейтон. Если интересно.
I guess the b-17g did not exist
como se llama la pelicula
I'd like to see a ME 262 Rotte in action
Shame this series was one season only. I don't think we will see anything like it for some time to come. Thanks for your comment. Have a wonderful day!
"“We were the true Masters of the Air.."
Proceeds to get shot down while on a bombing run.
They were despite being shot down. The Luftwaffe's ability to deal with Western Allied air power took a massive dump in 1944 and got worse and worse. The same Allied mastery of the air where the Luftwaffe couldn't even deal with Operation Overlord in 1944. The Luftwaffe fighter force was wrecked. Allied ground forces had to worry about German air attacks even less.
That's true mastery of the air.
Being Masters of the Air doesn’t account for ground based defenses. Where’s the Luftwaffe?
We as in the whole unit, not the individual
@@augusttorres2943 Yeah. Post-Bodenplatte, the Luftwaffe essentially ceased to exist as a viable threat to Allied air power.
"It had appeared i had spoke too soon"
Смотрим продолжение в фильме Большая прогулка 1966 года
Слава советским воинам!!!
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Oh yeah. My grandmother, my mother and her younger brothers we're under these glorious bomb carpets. They survived, but 650.000 children, wives, grandmothers and grandfathers did not. Meanwhile, all the soldiers were far away at the fronts.
Don’t start wars you can’t win
@@augusttorres2943 Don't be an ignorant arse if you don't have to. Might doesn't make right.
It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.
@@DevSolar the deutschers overwhelmingly supported the war machine until the war came to them. Nice try clown.
@@augusttorres2943Were you there or can you provide valid figures with a corresponding source? Thanks.
If they’re going on the Berlin, those are probably those big giant concrete flat towers are fighting. Those things had 80 eights and 128 mm flack guns
"flat" towers?????? Try again.
Здравствуйте. Как называется фильм? Сериал?
хозяева воздуха. Однако я не уверен, что вы сможете посмотреть его в странах Евразии.
It was a good series but I felt this ep was slapped together
Episodes 7 was bad, 8 completely sucked and 9 barely kept the show from a crash and burn. The first 6 episodes were really good though.
1:15 - didn’t know surface to air missiles were thing in WW2, Germans must of been that advance.
Henschel Hs 297
If the plane is losing speed and altitude then why did the jumpers zoom the opposite direction so quickly? They would maintain the same momentum wouldnt they?
Humans aren't as streamlined as planes.
I don't get all the hate, It depebds on what you expect I guess
They should have consulted the company that made the airplane models used in the film "Aviator" in my humble opinion. Use the models together with CGI and real aircraft when possible.
Were are the Bendix chin turrets lol
which type of rocket were used by the germans from the ground?
Wasserfall, Rheintocher etc. were bigger, right?
There are two types. V-1 flying bomb and V-2 ballistic missile. Hope this info helps you. Thanks for commenting. Have a wonderful day!
@@Perfectblue33That wasn't helpful at all
This is the rocket you're looking for
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taifun_(rocket)#:~:text=Taifun%20(German%20for%20%22typhoon%22,masse%20into%20Allied%20bomber%20formations.
@@user-do5zk6jh1kthanks for helping out.
@@user-do5zk6jh1k many thanks :)
A little bit sad, that they used these prototype stuff for the movie. This is really the exact opposide of accurate.
There is no seasons. Just 9 episods.
After while they ran out of things to bomb.
Not Season one. It's the only season. Show's over.
True. But it's still a season so i pointed that out. Thanks for your comment. Have a wonderful day!
Soviet lines, not russian
It's period accurate though. The Americans often referred to the USSR as Russia and the Soviets as Russians.
Wait they had guided anti aircraft missiles back then?I thought it was not invented until the cold war?
Instead of doing band of brothers 2...with could include some dogfights like this scene
Yup, uncontested.
you ony 've been masters of death
what is the scientific name of this bomb?
Is this a movie?
No. It's a 1 season show. Hope this helps. Have a wonderful day!
This looks like an il2 sturmovik trailer
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where to watch for free
Ask google.
Judging by your words and your profile picture, I would assume you are Jewish?
Bare metal B-17Fs in 1945…and in the next scene, unicorns…
Looks like the Berlin Tempelhof Airport
You're right, I work there in the old airport complex.
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I mean consider Soviet was allied that time. Not surprised that vilable option for this bomber is to reach the eastern allied line. Not sure how many does Soviet forces encounter and rescue downed US airman during ww2
At least one British airman had a Union Jack necklace made to wear on a late war mission, in case he had to bail out over Soviet-held territory. He did not want Red Army soldiers mistaking him for a bailed-out Luftwaffe airman.
@@stevekaczynski3793 the probability of mistake that can cause accidental friendly fire quite high if you ask me, giving how most Soviet troops were conscript and not regular professional trained troop, they will randomly open fire anything that was up front of them.
@@user-lo4bk2hf9z Uh... guess what, they were *all* conscripts by that time. British, German, Russian. Even most USA personnel by that time was drafted.
Nope. The bombs were released automatically by the bombsight. "Rocket incoming".....really? Is the writer 12?
thats area bombing
besides episode 7 there were some fantastic VFX given the subject matter. VASTLY better than Red Tails
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Red tails was so bad that it isn't really a high bar to pass.
There's been more moments than in episode 7 where the cgi was painful to look at imo, but the shots don't generally linger too long at least.
Considering Tuskeegee airmen barely showed up in the series this is a suspect comment at best. Not saying you have to lime the film red tails bit it was an action film not a historical retrospective
Бедни лиоечик🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Saltar todos o morireis.el motor 1 y el 4 no funcionan y el 2 esta ardiendo!!!.
What name of the aircraft pls 😢
B-17.
Why is elvis narrating?
On top of the chin-less G models, the no Red take off/Red insignia landing blooper in Ep. 5, I just confirmed with a friend, throughout the series it's .30 cal shell casings and links all over the floor... not 50bmg. Sad.
Not becaused u had the best plane thats for sure
Goering "But in the beginning, we had not fully assessed the possibility of daylight bombers. Our fighters could not cope with them. When we were able to do so, there was a pause and then you sent them out with fighter escort. The Flying Fortress, for example, had more than we had anticipated. Our estimate was incorrect."
LOST PRISON INTERVIEW WITH HERMANN GOERING: THE NAZI REICHSMARSCHALL’S REVELATIONS page
Podrían Netflix o Disney poner este tipo de series, y no la mierda que ponen.....
What are the fighters doing in the flak with the bombers?
And now show me a series telling the story of my Grandfathers - "Flakhelfer Children" watching this Bombers comming in ;)
Thats quite a hilarious statement, comming from a country that allways gets involved in WorldWars by the time they are basically won.
Only three and one half years to go to victory in Europe.
How many superbowls do you guys have?…. That’s what I thought.
@@AKracecars `Lol, USA is the only country in the world to call a national competition a "World Cup"
Вот хэппи энды
B17
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USA the Worldpolice,after England declared war on Germany and could not win on its own.
The Russians don't get enough credit.
"Rockets .. ohh shit the SAMS opened fire" ...WHAT A CRAP! .. wasserfall never got fully operational
A way to show that you are not the same as others is that you believe in Daddy God And it's just movie but that someday will be real blessings usa😢😢
я не хочу дивитись про смерть.,наглу
Flew uncontested? Not true! There was the occasional group of He162s flown by rookies with 6 weeks of experience every now and then...
Actually im kind of bummed that they didnt do at least 1 scene featuring a jet interception
Why show older B-17E/F's (1943 era) instead of the very different looking B-17G with the very distinctable chin turret under the nose which was used by the 100th in february 1945? Might sound like nitpicking but when you have all this historical research, money and CGI available why do such a sloppy inaccurate job?
It downgrades the historical accuracy of the series.
Budget. Everyone thinks CGI is super cheap -it isn't. Good CGI is very expensive. Still, I can forgive it. People nitpick this series something fierce. Nobody gives Band of Brothers shit for using a dressed up T-34 as a Tiger.
@@kalnarenBut it “looked” like a Tiger 1, these B 17 Fs are supposed to look like “G” which they should be…at this time in the war…it’s just completely wrong…
@@alexwilliamson1486 It didn't look like a Tiger if you know what a Tiger looks like. Road wheels were wrong, turret location was wrong, all the proportions were wrong.
Masters of the air certainly isn't historical documentary levels of detail, but it seems to get ragged on a heck of a lot more than it deserves (Band of Brothers had a lot of inaccuracies in it as well, even a few things the book got wrong, too, but no one seems to care). As WW2 aviation themed shows/movies go it's nowhere near the worst offender. The CGI isn't even that bad. Short of Hollywood blockbusters like Top Gun 2 there isn't much better out there (and some -like Midway and Pearl Harbour -a hell of a lot worse). I can forgive them using B-17F where Gs should have been used... at least they got the planes right. That's more than a lot of TV shows or movies do (Dunkirk used Spitfire Mk.Vs when they should have been Mk.Is.. nobody cares).
@@kalnaren the tank in BoB was not important to the story. The B-17’s are actually part of the main story for MotA. And this is the most expensive production of a tv series ever. Money was not an issue.
The last bombing scene of the show and even that didn't get much love to make it dramatic enough... As much as I think EP9 is a nice ending, still far from being memorable.
They made up so much BS for episode 9 it really makes it hard to watch. The problem with the bombing scene is that the Germans never had ground to air rockets. They at least could have gotten that right.
@@TheSocratesian The Germans actually did create mid-war and used anti-air rockets from fixed positions, I think it was called something with 297 in the name, iirc. So it's not completely inaccurate, although I'm not sure if they were used specifically in said bombing mission. But generally speaking, yeah, up to the point of EP9 there was nothing to expect anymore. End of the show, meaning the end of the war, so it was obvious.
@@JADEK111 Actually there was a post war review of all German surface to air projects. One of which was the Wasserfall surface to air missile. The review concluded that the Germans were working on but never deployed them. If you have any documented instances of this type of weapon's use I would be very interested to see it.
@@JADEK111 You are mistaken. They were close to developing one but it was never deployed according to the review of all German rocket programs after the war.
@@TheSocratesianI'm not really knowledgeable on that part, but I guess the scene was made with no regards to historical accuracy, but rather for dramatic purposes only which is expected in a Hollywood production. Then again, they could have made the same dramatic effect with a flak gun directly hitting the B-17.
Это вам не беззащитный сербов бомбить , немцы вам зубы то пообломали .
Julius Meimberg, Battle of Britain Luftwaffe veteran said, ‘It’s all exaggerated, Churchill succeeded in creating this myth that so few did so much for so many. When you look at how we fought against the Americans later, the Battle of Britain was very little in comparison.’
Вот вот, хотели Киев за три дня, а уже скоро как три года червей кормите.
No time for mourning the dead
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Dumb movie at that altitude they dont require oxyen mask
wie viele dieser Typen sind eigentlich drauf gegangen......
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*Life And Death In Bomber Command*
(just Bomber Command, not including USAF figures)
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The most dangerous were the first and last five trips. During the whole war, 51% of aircrew were killed on operations, 12% were killed or wounded in non-operational accidents and 13% became prisoners of war or evaders. Only 24% survived the war unscathed.
USAF numbers were lower because the USA entered the war later, first US bombing mission over Europe was January 1943.
Although the percentages mentioned above were probably similar.
@@AudieHolland BC annual Losses for 43 and 44 were about double 42.
RAF Berlin (most heavily defended airspace in the world) Air Offensive From November 43 to March 44.
Freeman Dyson - Problems in bombing policy and aircraft design
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What happens tho them is they lands in Russian territory ?
They are taking them to a prison camp.
where they helped with escaping.
Why would the American airmen be taken as prisoners?
@@georgeofhamilton Russia wasn't a good ally. Look at all the mini skirmishes and other issues that arose when the Allies and USSR met
More like communication issue between the top.
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The real murderers of ww2. The 8th air force. Never forget Dresden
RAF was primary on Dresden.
For most of the war in Europe the British selected USAAF targets.
^
" Silver, as in SILVER (N.M.F) Boeing B.17-'F's in 1945 " ?????
About as NON REALISTIC as "Pink 1973 Mach.1 Mustangs" in the F'kn Steve McQueen film "Bullitt"
Crazy how much this show relied on CGI and it still looked like shit
what overbearing CGI. How'd they manage to do a better job in the 1980s with Memphis Belle...
This CGI is totally overbearing, but the "Memphis Belle" was worse and that movie really sucks. Such cheesy acting in it!
But wouldn't one expect worse CGI in a movie from the 1980's? At least they had the excuse for it to look cheesy@@notfromthisworld7672 And quite frankly both have cheesy acting! lol
However Masters of the Air will never be "a classic"
"In the sky, the 8th Air Force flew uncontested."
Yeah, except for all those black puffs of smoke popping off everywhere that were about to knock you out of the sky.
Und die Jagdflieger auch?
This series bounced around from terrific, to pretty bad. The terrific parts show what this could have been. The bad parts, like the Tuskeegee airman scenes, brought it down a few notches. Just my opinion, of course.
They are literally killing civilians and the series depitc them as hero.
Disappointed in how many inaccuracies in this movie even with CGI help - natural metal finish on B-17F's ? Not even close to reality! 😞
Well.....Is Masters of the Air true or not? You did not answer your own question
They cheaped out on the cgi too, it's like dollarama cgi
This was so expensive to make HBO bailed. They couldn't even make the series until recently because the technology wasn't available. They had to build three planes because there's none available anymore in flying condition. They filmed these things by doing a 360 surround of the cockpit so it was all the actors could see outside around them.