The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries · SEASON 2
Flying High for France - The Lafayette Escadrille
Episode 17 · 2007-12-18
- Documentary
Episode overview
In a war that claimed millions of lives, most who served in the military fought because they had no choice. But the high flying men of the Lafayette Escadrille were different: they didn't have to be there. They were American adventurers who volunteered for World War One long before their country joined. They were lawyers, authors, heirs to banking and railroad fortunes, Ivy League graduates, friends of royalty, sons of privilege. All they wanted was a chance to fly. The young pilots came to the war with romantic ideas of adventure and heroism. They had no idea what they were in for.
26 minutes
Season 2 episodes
1. The Somme - A Storm of Steel2007-12-18
2. Siegfried Sassoon - A War Poet's Journey2007-12-18
3. Robert Graves and the White Goddess2007-12-18
4. I Am France - The Myth of Charles de Gaulle2007-12-18
5. Into the Furnace - The Battle of Verdun2007-12-18
6. Marshal Pétain's Fall from Grace2007-12-18
7. Flirting with Danger - The Fantasy of Mata Hari2007-12-18
8. Reading the Enemy's Mind - Espionage in World War I2007-12-18
9. Chasing the Phantom - Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck2007-12-18
10. Dreaming of Africa - The Life of Frederick Selous2007-12-18
11. At Home and Abroad - The Two Faces of Jan Smuts2007-12-18
12. Albert Schweitzer - Reverence for Life2007-12-18
13. Congo - A Curse of Riches2007-12-18
14. Waging Peace - The Rise of Pacifism2007-12-18
15. War in the Third Dimension - Aerial Warfare in World War I2007-12-18
16. Blood Red - The Life and Death of Manfred von Richthofen2007-12-18
17. Flying High for France - The Lafayette Escadrille2007-12-18
18. Anthony Fokker - The Flying Dutchman2007-12-18
19. Karl - The Last Habsburg Emperor2007-12-18
20. The Russian Revolution - All Power to the Soviets!2007-12-18
21. V. I. Lenin - History Will Not Forgive Us2007-12-18
22. Impresario - Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes2007-12-18
23. Ballet - The Art of Dance2007-12-18
24. Franz Kafka's Dark Truth2007-12-18
25. Lines in the Sand - The Middle East and the Great War2007-12-18
26. Colonel Lawrence's War - T.E. Lawrence and Arabia2007-12-18
27. Historical Lecture: War and Revolution2007-12-18
