Made in America

Ashley Miller’s inaugural venture into production, Made in America, transcends the typical episodic structure of its era, functioning instead as a rigorous, state-sanctioned ethnography of the nascent American doughboy. Through a rare dispensation from the Secretary of War, Miller’s lens penetrates the sequestered machinery of a massive domestic training cantonment. The series eschews mere melodrama to document the transmutation of raw civilian material into a disciplined martial force. It is a kinetic tapestry of drill, discipline, and the domestic echoes of a nation bracing for global upheaval, anchored by a cast that brings a human pulse to the rigid mechanics of military preparation. Rather than a fictionalized gloss, Miller provides an authoritative, almost tactile exploration of the soldier's evolution, capturing the grit and the grandeur of a country in the throes of mobilization.