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Barnstorming

Barnstorming is the true story of an unexpected friendship that developed between a farm family and two pilots who literally dropped out of the sky. Their friendship has created a new tradition out of an old one long gone: barnstorming. As a story of ordinary people who share one extraordinary day a year, the film is a portrait of rural America, the life of antique airplane pilots, and friendship.

Barnstorming

49m 37s

Barnstorming is the true story of an unexpected friendship that developed between a farm family and two pilots who literally dropped out of the sky. Their friendship has created a new tradition out of an old one long gone: barnstorming. As a story of ordinary people who share one extraordinary day a year, the film is a portrait of rural America, the life of antique airplane pilots, and friendship.

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