Summary: <p><span style="font-size: 1em;">Enjoy a deep dive into the documentary filmmaking process with </span><span style="font-size: 1em;">Darroch Greer and Ron King as they </span><span style="font-size: 1em;">discuss their film The Millionaires' Unit. </span></p><p>The Film tells the unsung story of a group of Yale college students <span style="font-size: 1em;">who took the initiative to learn to fly in preparation for America’s entry into </span><span style="font-size: 1em;">World War I and became the founding squadron of the U.S. Naval Air </span><span style="font-size: 1em;">Reserve.</span></p><p>The award <span style="font-size: 1em;">winning film’s </span><span style="font-size: 1em;">VOD release date of February 15, 2018 was chosen </span><span style="font-size: 1em;">to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of First Yale Unit member </span><span style="font-size: 1em;">Albert D. Sturtevant, the first U.S. Naval Aviator killed in combat, when his </span><span style="font-size: 1em;">plane went down in the North Sea on February 15, 1918.</span></p><p>.<span style="font-size: 1em;">Narrated by Academy Award</span><span style="font-size: 1em;">® </span><span style="font-size: 1em;">nominated actor Bruce Dern, grandnephew of </span><span style="font-size: 1em;">one of the aviators, the feature </span><span style="font-size: 1em;">length documentary charts the romantic, little </span><span style="font-size: 1em;">known story of the origins of American airpower and features very rare </span><span style="font-size: 1em;">archival footage and thrilling d</span><span style="font-size: 1em;">ogfighting sequences filmed air </span><span style="font-size: 1em;">to </span><span style="font-size: 1em;">air with </span><span style="font-size: 1em;">replica WW1 planes, some with original engines.</span></p><p>Inspired by Marc Wortman’s book <span style="font-size: 1em;">The Millionaires’ Unit </span><span style="font-size: 1em;">the film has been </span><span style="font-size: 1em;">developed and produced by descendants of the First Yale Unit, including </span><span style="font-size: 1em;">filmmaker Ron Kin</span><span style="font-size: 1em;">g, producers Harry Davison and Mike Davison, and narrator </span><span style="font-size: 1em;">Bruce Dern who are all </span><span style="font-size: 1em;">grandnephews and grandsons of FYU members.</span></p><p>http://www.millionairesunit.org </p><p>www.podcastingonaplane.com</p><p>www.facebook.com/podcastingonaplane</p><p>www.Instagram.com/podcastingonaplane @podcastingonaplane</p><p>www.twitter.com/podcastonaplane @podcastonaplane</p><p>www.patreon.com/podcastingonaplane</p><p>Music by Reaktor Productions</p><p>Film score by Ryan Shore, used with permission</p>
