The Tuskegee Airmen

Plane crashes (mostly stock footage); many characters die, leaving their friends to grieve. Characters argue, use racist slurs, threaten one another. Blood appears -- sometimes spatters -- when pilots are shot, though open wounds are never shown.

Language includes "s--t," "ass," "damn," "son of a bitch," "bastard," "hell," "d--k," "balls," "goddamn," and one exclamatory use of "God." White characters repeatedly call Black characters the "N" word and "boy." "Colored" is used as a neutral term by Black and White characters.

Many characters smoke cigarettes, cigars, and a pipe. Two pilots drink alcohol in one scene.

One instance of innuendo: A character wonders whether he has lipstick on his collar.

Written by Black and White men and directed by White director Robert Markowitz. Sheds light on a piece of American history that highlights systemic racism. Acknowledges the complexity of being a patriot as a Black man in the United States. Main characters are mostly Black men in complex roles who are given the space to be both flawed and heroic. Though the film is an inclusive story about barrier-breaking Black men, there's little other kinds of diversity (age, sexuality, disability, etc.), and women are barely present. Though it ends on an uplifting note, it does have a bit more nuance than many other Hollywood movies that show its characters "overcoming racism."