(Note: This post was originally written for the review site Battleship Pretension . See the full article HERE )

Wings is a 1927 American silent film about two World War I fighter pilot friends, both involved with the same beauty, produced by Lucien Hubbard, directed by William A. Wellman and released by Paramount Pictures.

William A. Wellman’s Wings,will forever be remembered as the first film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards of 1929. The award is itself a fine accolade, and places the film forever in the history books of important movies. However, the film is rarely discussed past the point of this interesting piece of trivia. When anyone happens to ask the question of which film won the first ever Best Picture Oscar, the answer turns out to be an unknown airplane film called “Wings”, of which, few people have been interested enough to…