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Cathay Williams' disability discharge certificate. Because of the prohibition against women serving in the military, Cathay Williams enlisted in the United States Regular Army under the false name of William Cathay [2] on November 15, 1866 at St. Louis, Missouri for a three-year engagement, passing herself off as a man.
Antebellum is a 2020 American black horror thriller film [3] [4] written and directed by Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz in their feature directorial debuts. The film stars Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Jena Malone, Jack Huston, Kiersey Clemons and Gabourey Sidibe, and follows a 21st-century African-American woman who wakes to find herself mysteriously in a Southern slave plantation from which ...
Something the Lord Made is a 2004 American made-for-television biographical drama film about the black cardiac pioneer Vivien Thomas (1910–1985) and his complex and volatile partnership with white surgeon Alfred Blalock (1899–1964), the "Blue Baby doctor" who pioneered modern heart surgery.
In 1868, during the Battle of Aizu in the Boshin War, Nakano Takeko, a member of the Aizu clan, was recruited to become leader of a female corps Jōshitai (娘子隊, Girls' Army), [33] which fought against the onslaught of 20,000 soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army of the Ōgaki Domain. Highly skilled at the naginata, Takeko and her corps ...
Johnson in the New Zealand novel Man alone; the strictly moral comic book character Rorschach (Walter Kovacs) Sasuke Uchiha from the manga, Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto: Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Usually static young female characters who have eccentric personality quirks and are unabashedly girlish, dreamy, and attractive.
The film starred Strode as Sergeant Rutledge, a Black first sergeant in a colored regiment of the United States Cavalry, known as "Buffalo Soldiers". At a U.S. Army fort in the early 1880s, he is being tried by a court-martial for the rape and murder of a white girl as well as for the murder of the girl's father, who was the commanding officer ...
The Servant is a 1963 British drama film directed by Joseph Losey. It was written by Harold Pinter , who adapted Robin Maugham 's 1948 novella of the same name. [ 5 ] The film stars Dirk Bogarde , Sarah Miles , Wendy Craig and James Fox .
Filmmaker Lizze Borden's movie shows a day in life of a small Manhattan bordello, including a vivid domination scene. 1985 Germany: Seduction: The Cruel Woman: Inspired by Venus in Furs, this is a study of a dominatrix who takes on both male and female slaves. 1986 UK: Sid and Nancy: Nancy works with a dominatrix 1987 UK: Personal Services