Docurama Films: NNVG153270.

Videodisc release of the 2008 documentary film by Chicken & Egg Pictures, Impact Partners and Room 11 Productions.

Special features: exclusive, never-before-seen footage; update: Team Lioness on Capitol Hill; trailer; filmmaker biographies; The changing role of women in the military.

Cinematography, Kristen Johnson, Julia Dengel ; co-producer/editor, Stephen T. Maing ; composer, Brendon Anderegg ; archival research, Lisa Kalikow, Amy Raugust.

Participants: Shannon Morgan, Rebecca Nava, Kate Guttormsen, Anastasia Breslow, Ranie Ruthig.

U.S. policy forbids women from serving in military units whose primary objective is direct ground combat. This documentary makes public, for the first time, the hidden history of a group of female Army support soldiers who became the first women in American history to be sent into direct ground combat, fighting alongside their male comrades in some of the most violent counterinsurgency battles. Told through intimate accounts and interviews with military commanders, the film follows five 'lioness' women who served together for a year in Iraq. Together the women's narratives form a portrait of the emotional and psychological effects of war from a female point of view.

DVD, NTSC.

Tribeca Film Festival official selection, 2008

Human Rights Watch Film Festival official selection, 2008

Center for Documentary Studies Fimmaker Award, 2008.

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