In the United States, military recruiters begin targeting students when they arrive in high school at age fourteen, enrolling them in a programme named JROTC (Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps). Many of the recruits are low-income, black and Latino, pressured into joining the military by the time they are eighteen.
Also in this combined programme
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The House
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Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2007
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 3'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL
