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The Millionaires' Unit is a 2015 American documentary film by Darroch Greer and Ron King about the First Yale Unit, a group of Yale college students who took the initiative to learn to fly in preparation for America's entry into the Great War.
Darroch Greer is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with over thirty years’ experience researching, writing and directing historical documentaries in the fields of American and European history, Native American and Western history, the American Revolution, Lincoln and the Civil War, American movies, and popular music for PBS, Turner ...
Jan 14, 2018 · By Darroch Greer Writer and co-director, The Millionaires’ Unit – The First U.S. Naval Aviators in World War I As the writer and co-director of The Millionaires’ Unit documentary, I wanted historical elements to tell the story as much as possible.
May 31, 2021 · The Millionaires’ Unit is the story of a privileged group of college students from Yale who formed a private air militia in preparation for America’s entry into World War One.
Documentary Action History. Seven years in the making and filmed on three continents, The Millionaires' Unit documentary tells the dramatic story of a group of Yale students who were the first to fly for America in WW1, some of them making the ultimate sacrifice. Directors. Darroch Greer.
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- Documentary, Action, History
- Darroch Greer, Ron King, Darroch Greer
- 2015
Darroch Greer is a documentary filmmaker and writer living in Los Angeles. With filmmaking partner Ron King, they started the non-profit Humanus Documentary Films Foundation. They spent eight years developing, fundraising and making The Millionaires' Unit — U.S. Naval Aviators in the First World War in time for the commemoration of the World ...
Sep 9, 2017 · Documentary filmmakers Darroch Greer and Ron King (grandson of First Yale Unit member John M. Vorys) aimed to create a personal, character-driven story that sheds light on a formative, if neglected, part of American history and on the American character.
