B-17 Flying Legend

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Call Number: DVD 358.4 B
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Originally released in 2002.
Special features: commentary track by filmmakers; the original 1944 "Memphis Belle" documentary; photo galleries with over 200 historical photographs; additional interviews; footage of the last flying B-17s; B-17 virtual tour; pilots notes.
Michael Faley, Jonathan Terry, Tony Terrazas, Bette Watson, Robert K. Morgan, Jack J. Amiel, Carl M. Clark, Otto Gabler, Michael Pappas, Wilbur Richardson, Manuel Biera, Richard E. Bowman, Al Olivari, Tony Rae.
Unmatched in the history of military aviation, the B-17 was the airplane which beat the odds against German air power, fighting some of the most fearsome battles over the European skies during World War II. Americans built almost 13,000 of these legendary machines; more than 4,700 were lost in combat, and only a handful still fly today.
DVD, region 1, full screen presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0 surround.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Suffers a bit due to production values, but content raises it to 4 stars submitted by hathaway1066 on August 5, 2013, 7:56pm The music and tone of the narrator's voice overs is a bit hokey, but the respect for the machines and those who flew them is underlined by that reverential, homage-paying tone, and when the guys who flew tell their stories a) the reason for being so respectful is justified, and b) there's a break from that heavy tone of narration, and the video works pretty well at that point.

So--overall--I'd recommend this.

Lots of footage of the planes, both from WW 2 era and now, and lots of interviews with the vets who flew.