Toward Independence

{{short description|1948 film}}

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| name = Toward Independence

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| director = George L. George{{Cite news| issn = 0362-4331| title = George L. George, 85, Organizer of Directors| work = The New York Times| access-date = 2021-04-08| date = 1993-01-05| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/05/obituaries/george-l-george-85-organizer-of-directors.html}}

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| studio = United States Army Signal Corps{{Cite news| issn = 0362-5745| volume = 35| issue = 2| pages = 75| last = Anzuoni| first = Robert| title = Signal Corps Produces Academy Award Winners| work = Army Communicator| date = 2010|url=https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA534192/page/n77/mode/2up}}

| distributor = U.S Army

| released = {{film date|1948}}

| runtime = 30 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

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Toward Independence is a 1948 American short documentary film about the rehabilitation of veterans with spinal cord injuries.{{Cite news| volume = 9| issue = 8–9| pages = 6| title = Toward Independence| work = Film News| date = May 1949|issn=8750-068X}} Army Surgeon General Raymond W. Bliss received the award.{{sfn|Med_Corps|1968|page=284}} In 1949, it won an Oscar for Documentary Short Subject at 21st Academy Awards.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1949 |title=The 21st Academy Awards (1949) Nominees and Winners |date=March 24, 2015 |access-date=May 29, 2019 |publisher=Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)}} The Academy Film Archive preserved Toward Independence in 2005.{{cite web|title=Preserved Projects|url=http://www.oscars.org/academy-film-archive/preserved-projects?title=Toward+Independence&filmmaker=&category=All&collection=All|website=Academy Film Archive}}