A True Story of the Berlin Airlift and the Candy that Dropped from the Sky. Life was grim in 1948 West Berlin, Germany. Josef Stalin blockaded all ground routes coming in and out of Berlin to cut off West Berliners from all food and essential supplies. Without outside help, over 2.2 million people would die. Thus began the Berlin Airlift, a humanitarian rescue mission that utilized British and American airplanes and pilots to fly in needed supplies....

Documents the contributions of an unlikely band of second-string soldiers and haggard military leaders in enabling the success of the Berlin Airlift humanitarian relief operation.

The story of Gail Halvorsen, a young pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps, who was assigned as a cargo pilot to the Berlin Airlift, in which U.S. forces flew supplies into Soviet-blockaded Berlin during World War II.

Biographical films, featuring narration, re-enactments, and interviews, of Philo Taylor Farnsworth, the father of television; Joseph and Alta Tippets, survivors of a devastating plane crash in Alaska; and Gail S. Halvorsen, the pilot who dropped candy to the children of Berlin during the Berlin blockade.