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Soldier Girls

1981 film by Nick Broomfield

Summary

1981 film by Nick Broomfield

Field	Value
image	Soldier Girls (1981 film).jpg
caption	Film poster
released
distributor	First Run Features
country	United States
language	English

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, about several women training in the US army.

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.

Accolades

BAFTA Award for Best Documentary
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Sundance Film Festival

In popular culture

Excerpts from the film are used in U2's song "Seconds" on their third album, War.

References

[https://www.screenslate.com/articles/soldier-girls Screen Slate]
[https://books.google.com/books?id=XGmCDwAAQBAJ 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.
[https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/soldier-girls/Film?oid=1073404 Chicago Reader]
[https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2019/films/soldier-girls/ Film at Lincoln Center]
[https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/30/movies/film-soilder-girl-in-today-s-army.html FILM: '{{sic. SOI. LDER
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1982/04/16/stunning-soldier-girls/7e4590b4-7ed3-4635-b3e0-ba681e99a05a/ Stunning 'Soldier Girls' - The Washington Post]
[https://www.allmovie.com/movie/soldier-girls-v45508 AllMovie]
[https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000631/1982/1/?ref_=evov_eh Sundance Film Festival (1982) - IMDb]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpsAg5ypK4Y Seconds posted on U2's official YouTube channel]

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