A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps (2019)
107 min
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.
- Release date
- September 27, 2019
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Lance Bendiksen
Trailer
Cast
- Harry Belafonte as Self
- Annette Bening as Narrator
- Jimmy Carter as Self
- Chris Dodd as Self
- Taylor Hackford as Self
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as Self
- Joe Kennedy as Self
- Donna Shalala as Self
- Maria Shriver as Self
Crew
- Alana DeJoseph · Director
- Shana Kelly · Writer
- Alana DeJoseph · Producer
- Lance Bendiksen · Composer
- Brook Aitken · Cinematographer
- Vanessa Carr · Cinematographer
- Luisa Conlon · Cinematographer
- Maya Craig · Cinematographer
- Alana DeJoseph · Editor