No Job for a Woman: The Women Who Fought to Report WWII Trailer (2011)

Trailer for the documentary No Job for a Woman: The Women Who Fought to Report WWII.

Before World War II, war reporting was considered to be absolutely "no job for a woman." But when the United States entered the war, American women reporters did not want to miss covering the biggest story of the century so they fought for and won access. But there was a catch: women reporters would be banned from the frontlines, prevented from covering front page stories about generals and battlefield maneuvers, and assigned "woman's angle" stories about nurses and female military personnel. Several women reporters refused to abide by these journalistic conventions and military restrictions and, instead, brought home a new kind of war story: one that was more intimate yet more revealing. They reached beyond the battlefield and deep into human lives to tell a new story of war.

Narrated by Emmy Award winner Julianna Margulies, this historical documentary focuses on the lives and work of wire service reporter Ruth Cowan, magazine reporter Martha Gellhorn, and war photographer Dickey Chapelle. Their stories are brought to life with rarely seen archival footage and stills with actors reading the written words of the three main characters and with interviews of contemporary female war reporters.