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Cinema Falls Screens The Great War

Chris Laughery
Julie Anderson-Friesen

In The Moment ... November 7, 2019 Show 696 Hour 1

As Americans prepare for Veterans Day, Cinema Falls offers the South Dakota premiere of the feature film The Great War by South Dakota State University graduate Steven Luke.

During the final days of the first World War, Lt. William Rivers leads a squad of white U.S. soldiers behind enemy lines to locate a missing platoon of African American soldiers. Lt. Rivers must overcome the horrors of trench warfare as well as the racial and political chasm that divides Americans.

Luke joins In The Moment along with Julie Anderson Friesen of Cinema Falls.

Arts and Entertainment reporting on SDPB is supported by the South Dakota Education Association

Lori Walsh is the host and senior producer of In the Moment.