We also did a film last year on women involved in World War II. Gray: No, it was just we’ve been so busy with films in Europe and the Pacific, it took us sitting down and focusing on this … This is a film that we feel is important. What prompted the focus on Ramitelli? Was it difficult trying to coordinate getting over there? We wanted the film to be something totally different than had already been done, so going to Italy and going to Ramitelli, and doing all this filming in the area where they flew from really made the film something unique that hadn’t been done before.
So we decided, why not go back to the base in Italy where they flew from to give people a perspective of what it looks like today and what it looked like then? And also how the Italian people who lived in the area felt about the Tuskegee Airmen and how they interacted with them. We’ve seen a lot of great films on the Tuskegee Airmen that involve more archival footage and interviews with the men. It kind of all came together where we had the opportunity to go over to Italy and shoot a couple of films – one on the Tuskegee Airmen and one on Bob Dole.Īny time we sit down and do a documentary film, we try to think of ways that it hasn’t been done before. Usually, we’re working on two or three or four films at a time, and it came down to logistics of trying to put together a trip over to Italy to visit their old base and other elements of the story. Tim Gray: We’ve been wanting to do something on that story for a while. When did you first decide to make a documentary about the Tuskegee Airmen?
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