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Language
  
English

7.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Documentary

Country
  
United States

Semper Fi: Always Faithful movie poster

Director
  
Tony Hardmon and Rachel Libert

Release date
  
April 21, 2011 (2011-04-21) (Tribeca Film Festival)

Directors
  
Rachel Libert, Tony Hardmon

Cast
  
Tom Townsend, Michael Partain, Jerry Ensminger, Denita McCall

Music director
  
Ivor Guest, 4th Viscount Wimborne, Robert Logan

Producers
  
Rachel Libert, Tony Hardmon, Todd Wider, Jedd Wider

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Semper Fi: Always Faithful, is a documentary film about the Camp Lejeune water contamination. The film made the 15 film short list for consideration for a 2012 Academy Award for best documentary feature. The film, which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2011, has a 100% "fresh" rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, indicating highly positive critical reviews. The film won a documentary editing award at Tribeca and the The Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize 2012. The Society of Professional Journalists presented it with its Sigma Delta Chi Award for Best Television Documentary (Network).

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Plot

German American Jerry Ensminger was a devoted Marine Corps Master Sgt. for nearly twenty-five years. As a drill instructor he lived and breathed the "Corps" and was responsible for indoctrinating thousands of new recruits with its motto Semper Fidelis or "Always Faithful." When Jerry's nine-year-old daughter Janey died of a rare type of leukemia, his world collapsed. As a grief-stricken father, he struggled for years to make sense of what happened. His search for answers led to the shocking discovery of a Marine Corps cover-up of one of the largest water contamination incidents in U.S. history. Semper Fi: Always Faithful follows Jerry's mission to expose the Marine Corps and force them to live up to their motto to the thousands of Marines and their families exposed to toxic chemicals. His fight reveals a grave injustice at North Carolina's Camp Lejeune and a looming environmental crisis at military sites across the country.

Accolades

Semper Fi: Always Faithful has won/nominated the following awards:

  • Nomination for News & Documentary Emmy Awards (2013)
  • Won Best Editing for the Tribeca Film Festival (2011)
  • Won Best Documentary for United Nations Association Film Festival (2012)
  • Woodstock Film Festival (2011)
  • Won Audience Award
  • Won Jury Prize
  • Runners Up for Best Editing
  • References

    Semper Fi: Always Faithful Wikipedia
    Semper Fi: Always Faithful IMDb Semper Fi: Always Faithful themoviedb.org