What would American democracy look like in the hands of teenage girls? In this documentary, young female leaders from wildly different backgrounds in Missouri navigate an immersive experiment to build a government from the ground up.
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00:00 [CHANTING]
00:02 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:04 [CHANTING]
00:06 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:08 [CHANTING]
00:10 There's something in the air, and it's politics.
00:14 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:16 Girl State is like high school teenage girls
00:18 who care about government.
00:20 Are you friends?
00:21 No.
00:22 We'll become friends.
00:23 Yeah, obviously.
00:24 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:26 In 2040, I intend to run for president.
00:28 So I think Girl State, I'm going to run for governor.
00:30 Attorney general.
00:31 Supreme Court justice.
00:33 Who's this?
00:34 OK.
00:35 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:36 We're never going to get the opportunity
00:38 to talk to people from different parts of Missouri
00:40 the way that we are right now.
00:42 I am a very social person.
00:44 I will talk to a wall.
00:46 Often when women start talking politics, we get shut down.
00:51 But I'm not one to be left on the desk.
00:56 We all have, in our own different ways,
01:00 grown up in a world where we've never seen a female president.
01:04 But how do we change that?
01:07 We step up.
01:09 This is where it all begins.
01:12 We all work very hard on the image of ourselves
01:16 that we want to show to the world.
01:18 It's exhausting.
01:21 I know it's a lot of pressure.
01:22 I can see it.
01:23 I'm that same person.
01:24 So breathe.
01:25 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:28 Good luck.
01:29 I'll ask you too.
01:31 We are all Americans, and we all want the best for this country.
01:35 Standing in front of this crowd of future leaders,
01:37 I can say that God can save the world.
01:39 Women will save America.
01:42 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:45 (upbeat music)
01:47 (electronic music)