Flyboys

“When the world first went to war, they were the first to fly.”

Blaine Rawlings (James Franco) is a young American who volunteers for the French military in 1916, before his own country has entered the war. He joins the Lafayette Escadrille, the first American fighter pilots, under the command of Capt. Thenault (Jean Reno). Tony Bill, a pilot himself, follows Blaine and fellow recruit Eddie Beagle (David Ellison), who go from strangers in the barracks to men who depend on each other in the air.