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Reviewed on July 1, 2012 | Video/DVD
Gr 9 Up—This documentary, narrated by actress Julianna Marguiles, concentrates on the lives of three groundbreaking women reporters who were among the 141 female war correspondents during World War II: wire-service reporter Ruth Cowan; magazine reporter Martha Gelhorn (perhaps better known today as Ernest Hemingway's second wife); and photographer Dickey Chapelle. While it's common today to see women reporting from war zones, in the 1940s the few women journalists in the press corps were consigned to reporting for the "women's section" of...Log In or Sign Up to Read More