Producer Frank Price first became interested in the story of the Tuskegee airmen in 1984, when he was head of Universal Pictures. He spent ten years working to bring this story about a squadron of black fighter pilots to the screen. The film cost about $8.5 million to produce.
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Copyright 1995 Home Box Office.
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The father of writer Paris Qualles was one of the pilots in the "Fighting 99th."
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Shot on location in Fort Chaffee, Alabama; Fort Smith, Arkansas; Davis Air Field, Muskogee, Oklahoma; and Los Angeles, California.
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Originally broadcast on HBO, Saturday, Aug. 26, 8pm (ET).
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This telefilm had a budget of $8.5 million.
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