Girls State

[Available Apr. 5 on Apple TV+.] Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine's powerful, intriguing, poignant, coming-of-age, informative, inspirational, thought-provoking, 98-minute, 2022 documentary that focuses on seven teenage girls, including Maddie Rowan, Emily Worthmore, Nisha Murali, Tochi Ihekona, Cecilia Bartin, Faith Glasgow, and Brooke Taylor, who spend one week with more than 500 female high school students at the annual American Legion sponsored leadership program in Missouri to form a mock democratic government, to run and vote for various offices, and to discuss important, vital, complicated, and controversial issues such as racism, gender equality, abortion rights, immigration laws, and gun control.
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