Red Tails [Blu-ray]Academy Award Winner Cuba Gooding Jr. and Academy Award. Nominee Terrence Howard lead a powerful ensemble cast in this high flying epic inspired by the real life adventures of the first African American combat unit to serve in World War II. Italy, 1944. As the war takes it's toll on Allied forces in Europe, a squadron of black pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen are finally given the chance to prove themselves in the sky even as they battle