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It's Your War Too is a 1944 short documentary film about the American Women's Army Corps and commissioned by the United States Government during World War II. It contains 1 minute of animation by the Walt Disney Studios. [1] This film, and others, were produced to combat some public backlash against women in the military. [2]
Top Secret Rosies: The Female "Computers" of WWII is a 2010 [1] documentary film directed by LeAnn Erickson.The film is focused on recognizing the contributions of American women serving as human computers during WWII, six of whom went on to program one of the earliest computers, the ENIAC. [2]
It provides an inside look at women's roles in the strike. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. [1] [2] The film was one of the first to put together archival footage with contemporary interviews of participants and helped spur a series of films on left and labor history in the US utilizing this technique.
The table below shows a breakdown by sector of jobs held by women in 1940 and 1950. Women overwhelmingly worked in jobs segmented by sex. Women were still highly employed as textile workers and domestic servants, but the clerical and service field greatly expanded. This tertiary sector was more socially acceptable, and many more educated women ...
Pages in category "1940s documentary films" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. The Augustas; D.
Siege (1940 film) The Silent Village; Since Pearl Harbor; Snow Capers; So Much for So Little; Soldiers All; Soldiers of the Sky; South of the Border with Disney; Squadron 992; Suggestion Box; Supervising Women Workers; Swedes in America; Symphony of a City
American women achieved several firsts in the professions in the second half of the 1800s. In 1866, Lucy Hobbs Taylor became the first American woman to receive a dentistry degree. [159] In 1878, Mary L. Page became the first woman in America to earn a degree in architecture when she graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...
1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; Pages in category "1940s American documentary television series" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.