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Soldier Girls (1981)

Soldier Girls poster
Directed by
Nick Broomfield
Genre
documentary film
Country
United Kingdom, United States
Runtime
1h 27m
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows several women as they go through basic training at a US Army base in Georgia. It shows the physical and emotional challenges of military drills and the different ways the recruits cope with the pressure.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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