Soldier Girls
Soldier Girls is a 1981 documentary film by Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill (who were a married couple at the time of the filming), shot in fourteen weeks in Fort Gordon, Georgia,[1][2] about several women training in the US army.[3][4]
Summary
Under the aggressive Sergeant Abing are several young women, some dedicated to defending their country, others who seem to have been forced into joining by circumstance. Several of these recruits become harder and colder through the course of their basic training at Fort Gordon.[5][6][7]
Accolades
- BAFTA Award for Best Documentary[8]
- Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Sundance Film Festival[9]
In popular culture
Excerpts from the film are used in U2's song "Seconds" on their third album, War.[10]
References
- ^ Screen Slate
- ^ Documentary Superstar - Google Books (ch. "Transforming The Image of Truth")
- ^ Dell'Oso, Anna-Maria (July 7, 1983). "Soldier Girls dwells on ugly side of US Army". The Sydney Morning Herald.
- ^ Chicago Reader
- ^ Film at Lincoln Center
- ^ FILM: 'SOILDER [sic] GIRL' IN TODAY'S ARMY - The New York Times
- ^ Stunning 'Soldier Girls' - The Washington Post
- ^ AllMovie
- ^ Sundance Film Festival (1982) - IMDb
- ^ Seconds posted on U2's official YouTube channel
External links
- Official website
- Soldier Girls at IMDb
- BFI
- Official trailer
- Entire film officially post by Joan Churchill on Vimeo
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Films directed by Nick Broomfield
- Who Cares? (1971)
- Proud to Be British (1973)
- Behind the Rent Strike (1974)
- Juvenile Liaison (1975)
- Whittingham (1975)
- Fort Augustus (1976)
- Soldier Girls (1981)
- Tattooed Tears (1982)
- Chicken Ranch (1983)
- Lily Tomlin (1986)
- Driving Me Crazy (1988)
- Diamond Skulls (1989)
- Juvenile Liaison 2 (1990)
- The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife (1991)
- Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1992)
- Monster in a Box (1992)
- Tracking Down Maggie (1994)
- Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam (1995)
- Fetishes (1996)
- Kurt & Courtney (1998)
- Biggie & Tupac (2002)
- Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003)
- His Big White Self (2006)
- Ghosts (2006)
- Battle for Haditha (2007)
- Sarah Palin: You Betcha! (2011)
- Tales of the Grim Sleeper (2014)
- Whitney: Can I Be Me (2017)
- Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love (2019)
