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10/02/2019 Film Screening at National Archives honors Peace Corps’ “Towering Task” 09/22/2019 After Premiere Discussion with journalist Maureen Orth and filmmaker Alana DeJoseph. 08/12/2019 My Peace Corps Story Podcast: A Towering Task - Alana DeJoseph. 11/14/2016 A Production for Peace - Washington & Lee University’s The Columns
9 feb 2024 · At the documentary film showing of A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps, Feb. 5, 2024 at UH Hilo, are from left, Charlene Iboshi of the East Hawai‘i Rotary Action Group for Peace, Jon and Julie Countess who are both returned Peace Corp volunteers, Chancellor Bonnie Irwin, film director Alana DeJoseph, film production assistant Isabella DeJoseph, and Joseph and Diane Theroux who are ...
2020. 1 hr 47 mins. Documentary, Travel. NR. Watchlist. This documentary tells the story of the Peace Corps, a volunteer program that sends Americans to various parts of the world. The aim is to ...
Not only does A Towering Task showcase the powerful function of the Peace Corps and its history, it also reveals the agency's many struggles, including its high leadership turnover. Vanessa Carr's cinematography is a great asset to the film. Beautiful aerial shots capture unique locations around the world.
Shriver was a passionate leader and served as the director into 1966. We see archival footage and photographs of Shriver's time with the Peace Corps, and learn that a memo from his task force was responsible for the phrase "A Towering Task", a recurring reference over the years, and the title of this film.
Narrated by Annette Bening, A Towering Task tells the remarkable story of the Peace Corps, taking viewers on a journey of what it means to be a global citizen. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy gave Americans the opportunity to serve their country in a new way by forming the Peace Corps.
a towering task: the story of the peace corps United States | 2019 | Alana DeJoseph Annette Bening narrates this history of the U.S. government agency, begun by President Kennedy in 1961, that has sent 200,000 Americans to 60+ countries around the world to promote international cooperation.
