Today we’re spending time with manly men. Take to the skies with us through the lens of William Wyler and his trio of war scarred vets in post-war America in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946); then keep in the air with the incredibly devoted and slightly mad Fly Boys of The Right Stuff (1983) as they learned to slip the silvery bonds of earth and head for the stars.
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