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GI Film Festival San Diego 2018

Film Block: Honoring WWI

Women in Service, World War I

Film Block: Honoring WWI

Museum of Photographic Arts
September 27, 2018 4:30 pm

Description

This film pairing honors the legacy of WWI heroes. This film block includes “The Hello Girls: : The Story of America’s First Female Soldiers” and “Black Jack Pershing: Love and War”. A brief intermission is scheduled between films.

Filmmaker Barney McCoy (“Black Jack Pershing”) and Producer Elizabeth Cobbs (“The Hello Girls”) are scheduled to attend.

 

In This Program


  1. The Hello Girls: The Story of America’s First Female Soldiers

    James Theres / Women in Service, World War I / USA / 2018 / documentary / 56 mins
    Told through 100-year old letters, photos, archival footage, and interviews with family and historians, the "Hello Girls" reveals the relatively unknown story of 223 American women who served overseas during WWI as telephone operators.

    Precedes: Black Jack Pershing: Love and War


  2. Black Jack Pershing: Love and War

    Bernard McCoy / World War I / USA / 2017 / documentary / 57 mins
    Drawn from personal papers, archival photographs, and film, the award-winning documentary "Black Jack Pershing: Love and War" tells the story of General John J. Pershing’s military career and his personal life, including tragedies seldom examined. When America entered WWI in April of 1917, its military was hardly prepared for war.

    Preceded by: The Hello Girls: The Story of America’s First Female Soldiers



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Dates & Times

Film Block: Honoring WWI

Museum of Photographic Arts
September 27, 2018 4:30 pm