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24 de jun. de 2013 · This film -- supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities -- profiles three women journalists who covered World War II at a time when women...
- 5 min
- 1943
- NEHgov
10 de abr. de 2011 · Follows reporters Ruth Cowan, Martha Gellhorn, and Dickey Chapelle as they circumvent restrictions and prohibitions placed on female reporters by U.S. government during WWII and push their r...
- (13)
- Documentary
- Michele Midori Fillion
- 2011-04-10
Women reporters during WWII were told war reporting was No Job For a Woman. Buy the DVD, available for purchase from Women Make Movies, to find out how these women over came the restrictions and created a new way of telling the story of war.
war reporting was considered NO JOB FOR A WOMAN. But when American female reporters fought and won access to cover the war, there was another battle to fight: Women would be banned from the frontlines, prevented from covering Front Page stories, and assigned “woman’s angle” stories.
Follows reporters Ruth Cowan, Martha Gellhorn, and Dickey Chapelle as they circumvent restrictions and prohibitions placed on female reporters by U.S. government during WWII and push their reporting to focus on the human cost of war.
- Michele Midori Fillion
- 61 min
- 2
When World War II broke out, reporter Martha Gellhorn was so determined to get to the frontlines that she left husband Ernest Hemingway, never to be reunited...
- 4 min
- 1737
- Described and Captioned Media Program
MARTHA GELLHORN. The women who fought to report WWII. Martha Gellhorn was sitting in a bar. on the Mexican border with her husband ,novelist Ernest Hemingway, when a paper-boy ran in yelling “La Guerra, la Guerra.” Pearl Harbor had been bombed. The United States would quickly and finally enter the fray of WWII.
