In the fall of 1972, nine years after JFK was assassinated in Dealey Plaza, the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders debuted at Texas Stadium, offering football fans "a little sex with their violence." Meanwhile, across town, a woman known only as "Jane Roe" was about to ignite a culture war with a stunning Supreme Court decision. And this was all happening in the Baptist buckle of the Bible Belt at the height of the Sexual Revolution-just as the Cowboys were becoming known as "America's Team."
With unprecedented access to the late Suzanne Mitchell, the fiercely-loyal mastermind - and matriarch - of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, DAUGHTERS is the never-before-told story of this once beloved, always controversial institution. Were the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders symbols of female empowerment-or were they embodying everything the Women's Movement was fighting against?
Spanning twenty-five years-from JFK to "Debbie Does Dallas" to Jerry Jones-the documentary features exclusive interviews and archival from the original Sisterhood of small-town "girls-next-door" who became an unprecedented pop culture phenomenon that would change the game of football-and America-forever.
In the fall of 1972, nine years after JFK was assassinated in Dealey Plaza, the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders debuted at Texas Stadium, offering football fans "a little sex with their violence." Meanwhile, across town, a woman known only as "Jane Roe" was about to ignite a culture war with a stunning Supreme Court decision. And this was all happening in the Baptist buckle of the Bible Belt at the height of the Sexual Revolution-just as the Cowboys were becoming known as "America's Team."
With unprecedented access to the late Suzanne Mitchell, the fiercely-loyal mastermind - and matriarch - of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, DAUGHTERS is the never-before-told story of this once beloved, always controversial institution. Were the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders symbols of female empowerment-or were they embodying everything the Women's Movement was fighting against?
Spanning twenty-five years-from JFK to "Debbie Does Dallas" to Jerry Jones-the documentary features exclusive interviews and archival from the original Sisterhood of small-town "girls-next-door" who became an unprecedented pop culture phenomenon that would change the game of football-and America-forever.
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