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Documentary films about Anne Frank (3 P) Pages in category "Documentary films about women in World War II" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter is a 1980 documentary film and the first movie made by Connie Field, about the American women who went to work during World War II to do "men's jobs." [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 1996, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally ...
Typical of the NFB's Second World War documentary short films in the Canada Carries On series, Women Are Warriors was created as a morale boosting propaganda film, originally with the working title of "Work for Women". [4] [5] The film was a compilation documentary that relied heavily on newsreel material to provide the background to the ...
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]
Nearly 19 million women held jobs during World War II. Many of these women were already working in lower-paying jobs or were returning to the work-force after being laid off during the depression. Only three million new female workers entered the workforce during the time of the war. [5]
Documentary films about women in World War II (1 C, 15 P) Pages in category "Documentary films about women in war" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
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Rosie the Riveter (Westinghouse poster, 1942). The image became iconic in the 1980s. American women in World War II became involved in many tasks they rarely had before; as the war involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale, the absolute urgency of mobilizing the entire population made the expansion of the role of women inevitable.