There For The Action || Missing From History
Lioness, a documentary film, tells the story of a group of female Army support soldiers who were part of the first program in American history to send women into direct ground combat. It takes an intimate look at war through the eyes of U.S. military women, following five female support soldiers who served together for a year in Iraq supporting Marine Corps units in direct ground combat.
Without the same training as their male counterparts but with a commitment to serve as needed, these young women fought in some of the bloodiest counterinsurgency battles of the Iraq war and returned home as part of this country’s first generation of female combat veterans. Lioness makes public, for the first time, their hidden history.
Lioness was aired on PBS on June 2, 2009.
