Fri: 4PM
Lioness
(Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers, 2008)
Lioness tells the story of a group of female Army support soldiers who were part of the first program in American history to send women into direct ground combat. Without the same training as their male counterparts but with a commitment to serve as needed, these young women fought in some of the bloodiest counterinsurgency battles of the Iraq war and returned home as part of this country’s first generation of female combat veterans. Lioness makes public, for the first time, their hidden history. (81 min.)Learn more about the film and its story at the Lioness website.
Lioness tells stories that would otherwise have been lost to history.
—Jesse Ellison, Newsweek.
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