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No
Job For A Woman: The Women Who Fought To Report WWII
A
film by By Michele
Midori Fillion - 2011
When
World War II broke out, reporter Martha Gellhorn was so determined to get to
the frontline that she abandoned her husband Ernest Hemingway, never to be
reunited. Ruth Cowan’s reporting was hampered by a bureau chief who refused to
talk to her. Meanwhile photojournalist Dicky Chapelle wanted to get so close to
the action she could feel bullets whizzing by. This award-winning documentary
tells the colorful story of how these three tenacious war correspondents forged
their now legendary reputations in World War Two – when battlefields were
considered no place for a woman.
Narrated
by Emmy Award® winner Julianna Margulies, this film features an abundance of
rich period archive, interviews with modern female war correspondents, as well
as actresses bringing to life the written words of these remarkable women.
Their repeated delegation to the sidelines to cover the ‘woman’s angle’
succeeded in expanding the focus of war coverage to include the human cost of
war, demonstrating how the destruction of one war leads to the next. By war’s
end, women reporters brought home a new kind of war story – more personal and
all-encompassing, reaching beyond the battlefield and deep into human lives.