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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 ...
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 known for The Millionaires' Unit (2015), The Lafayette Escadrille (2020) and Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010).
- Producer, Actor, Director
- Darroch Greer
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
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 · Known as the First Yale Unit, and dubbed ‘the millionaires’ unit’ by the New York press, they became the founding squadron of the U.S. Naval Air Reserve and were the first to fly for the United States in the Great War. Using the words of these pioneer aviators from their letters and diaries, the documentary tells the story of ...
Mar 2, 2018 · darroch greer Inspired by the book The Millionaires’ Unit by Marc Wortman, the stunning documentary of the same name tells the unsung story of a group of twenty-eight college students, nearly all of them from Yale University, who took the initiative to learn to fly in preparation for America’s entry into World War I and become ...
