More Than A Medal Screenings

The Park University George S Robb Centre for the Study of the Great War staff gives deepest appreciation to the following venues that have screened “More Than A Medal”: National U S Army Museum, U.S. Navy Museum and Memorial, McCormick Foundation/First Division Museum, St. Louis International Film Festival, Sequoyah National Research Center at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Brooklyn Central Library, Schomburg Center, and all local Kansas City venues. A special recognition is acknowledged to those descendants of the 214 servicemembers being researched as part of the Valor Medals Review Project that attended these screenings.

The first screening was held at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Mo., on March 24, 2022, in conjunction with National Medal of Honor Day. Robb Centre and Park University staff, along with Alex Goldstein and Clark Slater of Lame Deer Films, recently completed a 15-month screening tour and are excited to announce that “More Than a Medal” is now available to the public (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKlSrbMa uM)

The documentary was produced by Lame Deer Films in cooperation with the Valor Medals Review team at the Robb Centre. The film, produced over the course of several years, interweaves the efforts of researchers working against time, untold heroic stories of courage on the battlefields of France and the experience of modern day descendants as they maintain cautious hope that their family members will be recognized This compelling tapestry asks hard questions about what it means to be an American and debates how we as citizens can heal the wrongs of the past