Love Stories from the African Diaspora
Here are some of our picks for inclusive Black love stories in film and media. We hope you enjoy these tender love stories and beautiful depictions.
A Romance of the Air (1918)
Lieutenant Bert Hall, an ace American flyer serving in World War I as a member of the French Lafayette Escadrille, is wounded in an aerial battle and forced to land behind enemy lines. Finding his German opponent dead, Hall exchanges uniforms with him and is taken to a German hospital to recover. There he meets his old Kentucky sweetheart, who was unable to escape Berlin when the war broke out. Accompanied by the Countess of Moravia, who claims sympathy with the Allied cause but is actually a German spy, they escape to France in a German plane. Through the countess' duplicity, Hall is accused of betraying the French government and sentenced to be shot, but his American lover uncovers evidence that saves him at the last moment.
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Lieutenant Bert Hall, an ace American flyer serving in World War I as a member of the French Lafayette Escadrille, is wounded in an aerial battle and forced to land behind enemy lines. Finding his German opponent dead, Hall exchanges uniforms with him and is taken to a German hospital to recover. There he meets his old Kentucky sweetheart, who was unable to escape Berlin when the war broke out. Accompanied by the Countess of Moravia, who claims sympathy with the Allied cause but is actually a German spy, they escape to France in a German plane. Through the countess' duplicity, Hall is accused of betraying the French government and sentenced to be shot, but his American lover uncovers evidence that saves him at the last moment.
Rating:NR
Genre:Adventure, Romance
Written By:Franklin B. Coates
In Theaters:11/10/1918
Box Office:
Runtime:70 minutes
Studio:En l'Air Cinema Ltd., Wharton
Cast
Franklin B. Coates, Harry Revier
Director
Bert Hall
Lieutenant Bert Hall
Edith Day
American girl
Florence Billings
Countess of Moravia
Stuart Holmes
Archduke of Moravia
Herbert Standing
Maj. William Thaw
Brian Darley
Gen. Montaigne
Tom Burrough
Col. DuBois
Joseph Lertora
Lt. Le Roy
Franklin B. Coates
Herbert Stair
Emma Campbell
Madame Dumont
Emil Hoch
Gen. von Hoch
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