Soldier Girls

Film poster

Soldier Girls is a 1981 documentary film by Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill about several women training in the US army.[1][2]

## Contents

* 1 Summary
* 2 Accolades
* 3 In popular culture
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Summary[edit]

Under the aggressive Sergeant Abing are several young women, some dedicated to defending their country, others who seem to have been forced into joining by circumstance. Several of these recruits become harder and colder through the course of their basic training at Fort Gordon.[3][4][5]

## Accolades[edit]

* BAFTA Award for Best Documentary[6]

## In popular culture[edit]

Excerpts from the film are used in U2's song "Seconds" on their third album, War.[7]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Dell'Oso, Anna-Maria (July 7, 1983). "Soldier Girls dwells on ugly side of US Army". The Sydney Morning Herald.
2. ^ Chicago Reader
3. ^ Film at Lincoln Center
4. ^ FILM: 'SOILDER [sic] GIRL' IN TODAY'S ARMY - The New York Times
5. ^ Stunning 'Soldier Girls' - The Washington Post
6. ^ AllMovie
7. ^ Seconds posted on U2's official YouTube channel

## External links[edit]

* Official website
* Soldier Girls at IMDb
* BFI
* Official trailer
* Entire film officially post by Joan Churchill on Vimeo

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Films directed by Nick Broomfield

* Who Cares? (1971)
* Proud to Be British (1973)
* Behind the Rent Strike (1974)
* Juvenile Liaison (1975)
* Whittingham (1975)
* Fort Augustus (1976)
* Soldier Girls (1981)
* Tattooed Tears (1982)
* Chicken Ranch (1983)
* Lily Tomlin (1986)
* Driving Me Crazy (1988)
* Diamond Skulls (1989)
* Juvenile Liaison 2 (1990)
* The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife (1991)
* Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1992)
* Monster in a Box (1992)
* Tracking Down Maggie (1994)
* Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam (1995)
* Fetishes (1996)
* Kurt & Courtney (1998)
* Biggie & Tupac (2002)
* Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003)
* His Big White Self (2006)
* Ghosts (2006)
* Battle for Haditha (2007)
* Sarah Palin: You Betcha! (2011)
* Tales of the Grim Sleeper (2014)
* Whitney: Can I Be Me (2017)
* Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love (2019)

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BAFTA Award for Best Documentary

1948–1989|

* Louisiana Story (1948)
* Daybreak in Udi (1949)
* The Undefeated (1950)
* Beaver Valley (1951)
* Royal Journey (1952)
* The Conquest of Everest (1953)
* The Great Adventure (Det Stora äventyret) (1954)
* The Vanishing Prairie (1955)
* On the Bowery (1956)
* Journey into Spring (1957)
* Glass (Glas) (1958)
* The Savage Eye (1959)
* Dispute (1960)
* Volcano (Le Rendezvous du diable) (1961)
* Four Line Conics (1962)
* Individual Honour (1963)
* Nobody Waved Good-bye (1964)
* Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
* Goal! The World Cup (1966)
* To Die in Madrid (1967)
* In Need of Special Care (1968)
* Prologue (1969)
* Sad Song of Yellow Skin (1970)
* The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971)
* Cutting Oils and Fluids (1972)
* Grierson (1973)
* Cree Hunters of Mistassini (1974)
* The Early Americans (1975)
* The Canadians (Los Canadienses) (1976)
* No Award (1977)
* The Silent Witness (1978)
* The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1979)
* No Award (1980)
* Soldier Girls (1981)
* Burden of Dreams (1982)
* Schindler (1983)
* 28 Up (1984)
* Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story (1985)
* Shoah (1986)
* Baka – People of the Rainforest (1987)
* Death on the Rock (1988)
* Four Hours in My Lai (1989)

2005|

* The Orphans of Nkandla (2005)

2011–present|

* Senna (2011)
* Searching for Sugar Man (2012)
* The Act of Killing (2013)
* Citizenfour (2014)
* Amy (2015)
* 13th (2016)
* I Am Not Your Negro (2017)
* Free Solo (2018)
* For Sama (2019)
* My Octopus Teacher (2020)
* Summer of Soul (2021)

* Between 1990–2012, the documentaries continued to be honoured at the British Academy Television Awards.

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