A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps

Name: A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps
Director: Alana DeJoseph
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2019-09-27
Cast: Annette Beninng, Elizabeth Cobbs, Harris Wofford, John Coyne, Karen Schwartz

2019 · 107 min · Documentary

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy gave young Americans the opportunity to serve their country in a new way by forming the Peace Corps. Since then, more than 200,000 of them have traveled to more than 60 countries to carry out the organization's mission of international cooperation. Nearly 60 years later, Americans-young and old alike-still want to serve their country and understand their place in the world; current volunteers work at the forefront of some of the most pressing issues facing the global community – yet the agency has struggled to remain relevant amid sociopolitical change.

Directed by Alana DeJoseph · Written by Shana Kelly

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