On Jul 5, 7:11*pm, jim wrote:
In 1954 or 1955 I saw a short movie at a local theater about gliding.
It was in black and white and involved young men building/repairing a
glider in secret from the military/police. *They winch launched the
glider which was flown by their leader. *The young pilot was wounded
by a military rifleman as the glider took off. *The pilot was dead
when the others ran to glider after it landed and carried the pilot on
their shoulders from the airfield.

What was this short feature that I saw?

I'm not familiar with this movie - but it sounds like it was based
loosely on the Colditz glider...?...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colditz_Story

I learned about Colditz via PBS...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/naziprison/glider.html