Movies: Trevor Getz

  • 2017
    Nisei Soldiers: Japanese American G.I. Joes

    Nisei Soldiers: Japanese American G.I. Joes (2017)

    Nisei Soldiers: Japanese American G.I. Joes

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    Leaving internment camps to defend their country in Europe, Japanese-American Nisei soldiers of WWII became the most decorated unit in American history....

    Nisei Soldiers: Japanese American G.I. Joes
  • 2017
    Fighting Fred Funston

    Fighting Fred Funston (2017)

    Fighting Fred Funston

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    On April 18th, 1906, San Francisco witnessed its most devastating natural disaster – an earthquake that initiated a city-wide fire. The commanding officer of the U.S. Army base at the Presidio, Fred Funston, gathered citizens to fight the fire, patro...

    Fighting Fred Funston
  • 2017
    PFC Benjamin Tollefson: A Mom's Loss

    PFC Benjamin Tollefson: A Mom's Loss (2017)

    PFC Benjamin Tollefson: A Mom's Loss

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    PFC Benjamin Tollefson was killed in action during Operation: Iraqi Freedom. His mother tells the story he never got a chance to share....

    PFC Benjamin Tollefson: A Mom's Loss
  • 2023
    The Chaplain: MAJ Brenda Threatt

    The Chaplain: MAJ Brenda Threatt (2023)

    The Chaplain: MAJ Brenda Threatt

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    In a profound exploration of faith, service, and identity, this documentary film follows Brenda Elizabeth Threat, an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and a military chaplain in the California State Guard. Born in Los Angele...

    The Chaplain: MAJ Brenda Threatt
  • 2017
    Pride of the Buffalo Soldier

    Pride of the Buffalo Soldier (2017)

    Pride of the Buffalo Soldier

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    African American soldiers throughout the 19th and 20th Centuries faced discrimination and segregation, yet many still chose to fight for their country....

    Pride of the Buffalo Soldier
  • 2023
    Carson Bigbee: The Pirate of America's Pastime

    Carson Bigbee: The Pirate of America's Pastime (2023)

    Carson Bigbee: The Pirate of America's Pastime

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    In a time when America was on the brink of modernization, Carson "Skeeter" Bigbee emerged from rural Oregon to become an embodiment of national transformation. Born to working parents in 1895, Bigbee’s life as a multi-sport athlete, a baseball star w...

    Carson Bigbee: The Pirate of America's Pastime
  • 2023
    The Jock: A Montford Point Marine

    The Jock: A Montford Point Marine (2023)

    The Jock: A Montford Point Marine

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    "The Jock: a Montford Point Marine" unveils the harrowing yet inspiring journey of an American Marine from the segregated boot camp of Montford Point, North Carolina. Raised on the tough streets of Philadelphia, Dave Culmer is drawn to the Marines, e...

    The Jock: A Montford Point Marine
  • 2017
    Remembering Port Chicago

    Remembering Port Chicago (2017)

    Remembering Port Chicago

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    In California's Bay Area, a painful memory lingers of the Port Chicago disaster of WWII, when hundreds of the Navy's first Black Sailors perished, and the White officers in charge were protected by the chain of command....

    Remembering Port Chicago
  • 2018
    Noble Sissle's Syncopated Ragtime

    Noble Sissle's Syncopated Ragtime (2018)

    Noble Sissle's Syncopated Ragtime

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    Combining footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era, this film tells the story of Noble Sissle's incredible journey that spans "The Harlem Hellfighters" of World War I, Broadway Theatre, the Civil Rights movement, and decades of Blac...

    Noble Sissle's Syncopated Ragtime
  • 2023
    The Gunnery: A Montford Point Marine

    The Gunnery: A Montford Point Marine (2023)

    The Gunnery: A Montford Point Marine

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    In this heartfelt short film by Jesse Collier Sutterley, Roosevelt Farrow, born in 1929 at the start of the Great Depression, shares his lifelong dream of becoming a U.S. Marine, despite the racial barriers of his time. Raised by his grandmother in h...

    The Gunnery: A Montford Point Marine
  • 1969
    You Don't Know Jack: A Montford Point Marine

    You Don't Know Jack: A Montford Point Marine (1969)

    You Don't Know Jack: A Montford Point Marine

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    In this compelling short film, we follow the life of a Montford Point Marine as he reflects on his experiences and the challenges he faced as an African American in the Marine Corps. Set against the backdrop of racial segregation and the horrors of w...

    You Don't Know Jack: A Montford Point Marine
  • 2023
    The Architect: A Montford Point Marine

    The Architect: A Montford Point Marine (2023)

    The Architect: A Montford Point Marine

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    In this dynamic and dramatic short film, an African American veteran takes us on an extraordinary journey through his life. From a chance visit to the Pentagon, to growing up in a vibrant integrated neighborhood, his story is one of resilience and in...

    The Architect: A Montford Point Marine
  • 2019
    Leo Patrick McArdle: Veterans Helping Veterans

    Leo Patrick McArdle: Veterans Helping Veterans (2019)

    Leo Patrick McArdle: Veterans Helping Veterans

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    A veteran creates support systems that help other veterans and their families....

    Leo Patrick McArdle: Veterans Helping Veterans
  • 2017
    Buffalo Soldiers, Victorio and Manifest Destiny

    Buffalo Soldiers, Victorio and Manifest Destiny (2017)

    Buffalo Soldiers, Victorio and Manifest Destiny

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    A look into the 19th century American-Indian Wars, Manifest Destiny, and the conflicts between Apache tribes and the African-American Buffalo soldier regiments....

    Buffalo Soldiers, Victorio and Manifest Destiny