Iowa: An American Portrait (1996)
Iowa: An American Portrait(Directed by Tom Hedges.1996.Writer: Hugh Sidey. Narrator: Tom Brokaw. Readers: Simon Estes, Cloris Leachman, Sada Thompson. Funded by corporations and foundations for Iowa's Sesquicentennial in 1996, this film is bucolic, with fewer than a half dozen images taken in the larger cities. Commentary within the documentary suggests that small town Iowa life is a model for democracy.
Marty Knepper Morningside College knepper@morningside.edu & John Shelton Lawrence Morningside College j.shelton.1@gmail.com
