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Women's Studies
264 film(s) found
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Rebiya Kadeer is a human rights activist twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She is the impassioned though graying exiled leader who continues to lobby for the Uyghurs, a Muslim people whose ancestral home was annexed by the Chinese in 1949. more »
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The women of a small, remote village in the Indian Himalayas have their world transformed with the arrival of a silk weaving cooperative. One woman, Hema, begins a cooperative in her new village to teach local women—and her husband—to weave. more »
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The film travels to Kenya, Brazil and Thailand to tell the personal stories of women with AIDS. Set against a background of disease, poverty and social subjugation this is a story of vitality and will power, and of women who have the courage to fight against reigning cultural and religious traditions. more »
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This is a deeply personal exploration of the bedroom politics that make black women especially vulnerable to AIDS infection. The film follows a young female doctor, working in the South Bronx, as she gives medical and emotional support to her afflicted patients. more »
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The Amazing Normal Story is the true personal story of the filmmaker who became sexually involved with a man old enough to be her father when she was twelve years old. This documentary is a sensitive portrayal of the courageous journey she takes to rediscover and understand her past. more »
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The incidence of grandparents raising their grandchildren as primary caregivers has increased 30 percent since 2000. This film depicts such a situation as we see the daily life of a frail 77- year-old grandmother who is raising four grandsons aged 5-8. more »
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A Somalian woman uses all methods at her disposal to change the mindset of her people about circumcision. more »
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A Westerner explores the institution of arranged marriages with her married Indian friends. She finds that there are many variations in the way these marriages are arranged, but in all cases, the marriage is a family matter, often used to reinforce the social standing of the family, and to preserve values from generation to generation. more »
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The Artist Was a Woman uncovers the works of several gifted female artists while exploring why their talent was so often overlooked. more »
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This film focuses on the assertive market women of Ghana who are subordinate in domestic matters but are powerful in the marketplace. more »
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In a backlash against feminism, European men marry Asian wives through advertisements. This footnote to social history will set any women's studies class gnashing their teeth. more »
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This powerful documentary chronicles a Ghanaian young woman’s desperate attempt to escape the ritual of female circumcision in her native land. more »
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This is an intimate portrait of a single mother in Burkina Faso who supports her six children through her street-side rice business. The film takes us through Awa's arduous 16 hour workday, interspliced with interviews of her children who are grateful for her hard work in their behalf. Here is a glimpse of some of the economic realities faced by women today in urban Africa. more »
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This revealing portrait of an overeater will strike a chord worth Americans who are concerned with weight and body image. 28 min. more »
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Today, many ambitious young women in China feel they have to westernize their appearance through plastic surgery in order to get ahead. more »
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This visually stunning film documents an extraordinary coming of age ritual in a village in the Niger Delta in which the young women undergo the Iria rite to prepare themselves for womanhood. more »
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Seventeen year-old Adina Scheim from Toronto is becoming a boy named Ayden. Her father, a conservative rabbi, has a hard time dealing with this transformation. more »
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This film examines domestic violence from a personal perspective, focusing on an abuser and a victim, who each discuss their backgrounds and their determination to break the patterns of violence that have governed their lives more »
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This documentary examines the painful legacy of Korean sex slaves under World War II Japanese colonial rule. It honors a few brave survivors who came forward to break the silence. more »
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Thailand's booming economy rests on the exploitation of rural women. Through portraits of three women, we see the human cost of the country's rapid industrialization. more »
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Benazir Bhutto was Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1988, the first woman to head a Muslim country. This film traces her political life and how she and her family are linked with Pakistan¹s stormy history. more »
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A film that shows that mid-life may be an opportunity for growth. Women aged forty to sixty share the thoughts and experience that enrich this new stage of their lives. more »
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This lively film captures the story of a spirited group of women who taught themselves how to deliver babies on a 1970s commune and changed the way a generation thought about childbirth. more »
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Vera Bila, a Gypsy singer, is a cabaret star in Europe but in her native land she is viewed with indifference and suspicion. more »
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Young girls in India face a dismal future, despite a decade of feminism. Widespread poverty means families need to send their children to the workplace, especially girls. more »
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The men in this film feel that rape is not just a woman's problem, but a human problem of our violent culture. They are committed to training men and women in rape prevention techniques. more »
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Encourages women to be more assertive in dealing with the disease. more »
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Carmen Lomas Garza is a Chicana artist who creates images about the lives of Mexican Americans based on her memories and experiences growing up in South Texas. In this charming film, Carmen returns to Texas to revisit the people and places that inspired her work. more »
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Through internet interviews a young Algerian college student explores with other women the condition of women in the developed and less developed world. In the process she challenges some prevalent cliches about Muslim women. more »
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In Japan, the old system of arranged marriages is giving way to the "love match," with dramatic social consequences. more »
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Through patience and perseverance, a local woman persuades village elders to reconsider the tradition of female circumcision. more »
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Cheating the Stillness: The World of Julia Peterkin chronicles the life of a remarkable woman and author who rebelled against expectations of Southern women in the early twentieth century. more »
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Twenty-four indigenous women weavers gather for a festival, each gripped by painful memories of the civil war in Chiapas. Music, prayer, and weavings intertwine in a homage to those who have suffered and died resisting oppression. more »
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This film gives audiences unprecedented access to a commonplace story that remains tightly hidden. Despite being illegal, child marriage remains part of the culture across Africa. more »
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A pair of small feet -- three-inch golden lilies -- were once the male-designated yardstick for feminine beauty in China. A young girl's feet were broken and bound inwards along the instep, a process that caused excruciating pain. Systematically bound, day after day, the stunted feet began to take on the coveted look of that profoundly sensuous image, the lotus bulb. more »
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For fifteen years, the life of a young Masai woman has been chronicled as she emerges from adolescence to wife and mother. more »
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Since 1993 over two hundred of young women who worked in the "maquiladoras" in Juarez, Mexico, have been murdered, and the crimes barely investigated. Many of the victims were assembly-line workers in the over four hundred mostly US-owned factories. more »
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In this disarmingly intimate and revealing film three generations of women in an Iranian family describe their struggles for survival within marriages founded on Iranian traditions. more »
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Quilting is interwoven with the history of black women in America. We meet ebullient women and see their colorful creations, which link them to their past. more »
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This classic film that shows the love/hate relationship women have with doing the laundry and pays homage to the commonality of women's experience. more »
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This lively film follows a group of Latina musicians as they break the gender barrier to perform mariachi music in America. more »
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Covered Girls provides a window into the lives of an animated group of Muslim American teenage girls in New York and challenges the stereotypes many Americans may have about this culture. more »
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Shot in Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Egypt, and Ethiopia, this film highlights the complex social, religious, cultural, and economic issues which underpin the ongoing practice of female genital mutilation. more »
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Documents just how much fathers can matter to their daughters emotional development.It looks at the special bond between fathers and daughters, especially as it relates to a woman’s career choice and her choice of men. more »
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An Indian woman photographer, who photographed notables such as Gandhi, Ho Chi Minh, Queen Elizabeth, and Jackie Kennedy, yet had to publish under her husband's name. more »
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After being raped, Hind was cast out of her home in Morocco and stripped of her official identity. Left with no choice but to work as a prostitute and traditional wedding dancer, she refuses, despite all odds, to give up her dignity and her love for her child. more »
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This documentary on gang rape and acquaintance rape is a compelling view of what is happening on college campuses. more »
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Modern Palestinian women face dramatic choices concerning their role in a free Palestinian homeland. Many female activists, for ideological and symbolic reasons choose to wear the veil and don't regard it as a symbol of oppression. more »
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Seen through the eyes of the women she influenced, including Kate Millet and Marge Piercy, this is an in depth look at one of the leaders in the international women's movement more »
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This vibrant film focuses on the struggles and successes of two local women's groups fighting to preserve their land, forests and way of life in Brazil's Amazon region. The women combine scientific study, political advocacy and grassroots activism to save their communities' fields and forests from ranchers and loggers and to improve their standard of living. more »
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This beautifully photographed, revealing film about Egypt's women captures their separate and subordinate life under the Islamic code. Men and women speak about their traditions, expectations, and patterns of life. more »
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Portraits of women from around the world who have broken ground in new fields. more »
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This documentary takes us inside the workings of Sharia law in a Western society, especially as it affects women seeking divorce. more »
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With domestic violence a growing problem in our society, one community, Bellevue, Washington, developed a successful counselling program which has become a national model more »
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The Double Dutch Divas are women who have mastered the art of jumping and dancing double Dutch during their twenty years together. They are a sisterhood of diverse ages and talents; they inspire audiences here and abroad with their spirit of "can-do". more »
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The extraordinary life of Pearl Buck (1892-1973), the child of missionaries who was raised in China and developed a deep affection for the Chinese people. She became one of the most popular American writers of the 20th Century, especially for her best-selling novel, The Good Earth. Archival footage and interviews provide unique insight into China in the first half of the 20th century more »
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This landmark documentary is the first to depict contemporary U.S. nuns in "action", living out a mission of social justice, even when it brings them into conflict with the established church. more »
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Explores the "hunger for a perfect body" which sometimes leads women to starve themselves. more »
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Portraits of three Asian women fighting for social justice. Each is from a different culture (Bangladesh, India, Vietnam) but are united by their refusal to remain silent and accepting. more »
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Fathima Burnad is fighting to change the caste system that has existed for 3,000 years. more »
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Hien Tran, a former Vietnamese refugee turned union representative in Austalia, is speaking up for her fellow workers, trapped by their circumstances and financial need. more »
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In 1994 a young poet from rural Bangladesh plunged the country into a wave of mass protest. Her crime: to write her thoughts about how religious fundamentalism has consigned women to a secondary role in modern society. more »
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A Somali woman filmmaker who was subject to circumcision explores the issue of female genital mutilation in her culture. more »
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This film explores the importance of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a liberating symbol for Mexican women today more »
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A Brazilian paraplegic wanted to marry the love of his life. The Roman Catholic Church of Brazil would not give him permission on the grounds that he could not copulate. People all over Brazil rallied in support of the couple. more »
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This is the story of African American women who migrated from the rural South during the first three decades of the 20th century and worked as domestic workers to support their families. We meet women of spirit and humor who tell how they survived difficult times more »
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This film focuses on three survivors of sexual assaults, two women and a man, who poignantly and openly share their experience and its aftermath. more »
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A powerful and moving film exploring the complexity of female infanticide in southern India and showing steps that are being taken to eradicate the practice more »
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Girls in White Dresses is the delightful chronicle of young middle-class African American women in Oxnard, California, who eagerly participate in the coming-of-age ritual of the debutante ball. more »
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An intimate portrayal of the lives of three runaway girls. All are the victims of heartbreaking family life, yet each shows the capacity of life-affirming resilience. more »
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This award-winning film is a journey across three continents telling the story of the up-and-coming baby production industry in the age of globalization. more »
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This Scandinavian-made film shows women of all ages and shapes enjoying themselves unselfconsciously during a summer's day at the lake. more »
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This film describes the remarkable partnership between black South African grandmothers who are raising their grandchildren, orphaned by AIDS, and a group of grandmothers from North America who are being supportive of them. more »
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Women of varying ages and social background recall the vivid and often disturbing memories surrounding their first menstrual period. more »
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"The film captures the spirit and resilience of a group of Korean women who had been forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese during World War II. Now in their sixties and seventies, they live together in a shared community where they heal from the shame of having been "comfort women." more »
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The Chinese Communist revolution promised women equality after thousands of years of subservience to men. This film takes us to remote villages and urban factories to show how women are still oppressed. more »
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From the renowned Under the Sun series of BBC, this trilogy focuses on the Hamar, an isolated people of southwestern Ethiopia whose traditional lifestyle has been barely touched by the war and the famine in the north. more »
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Duka, a young unmarried Hamar girl learns what awaits her in life from the older women of her tribe. more »
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Duka and her young friend Gardi excitedly prepare to marry men they have never met. more »
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Duka is now a mother with a two-year-old daughter and infant son. Her life is dominated by caring for them and her husband more »
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Hansel Mieth is the compelling tale of a pioneering woman photojournalist who created some of the most indelible images of mid-20th century America. more »
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Three women and one man recall the childhood sexual traumas that destroyed their youth. They speak candidly about the recovery process which released them from symptoms that had plagued their lives. more »
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This important documentary investigates the effect of incest on three women as it illuminates their journey from pain and despair to recovery to finally working to end the cycle of incest. more »
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An intrepid woman who reported on events in China during the turbulent 30's and gained the friendship of Mao's inner circle. more »
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Her Brilliant Career examines discrimination in the workplace and politics, and highlights a controversial program for women executives in the US. more »
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This colorful film portrays three Sami women of different generations as they follow the reindeer herds of Lapland. more »
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This fascinating film portrays the life and work of five outstanding women photographers, who perfected their craft in an era when photography was a man's domain. Included are Gisele Freund and Lisette Model, the teacher of Diane Arbus. more »
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The film chronicles Hillary Rodham Clinton's early years as a good-natured and idealistic college student, and her evolution into politics. more »
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This film documents the lives of three women in New York, who for very different reasons have decided to have home deliveries with midwives. more »
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A tribute to both the pioneering and Native American women in the West at the turn of the century. more »
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The film follows a 12 -year-old Turkish girl, who undertakes the spiritual and physical training to learn ritual whirling, as done by the Whirling Dervishes. more »
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The original, award winning feature length version of the Double Dutch Divas. We meet the energetic women who jump to entertain and promote sisterhood. more »
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This delightful film tells the story of Mura Dehn, a Russian-born dancer who came to America in the 1930's, and dedicated herself to preserving jazz dance on film. more »
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By getting a bit of start up money, these women in Ghana have been able to start small businesses. more »
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Kiran Bedi is small woman with a huge mission. A police woman and a social reformer, she has been compared to Mother Theresa and Mahatma Gandhi. more »
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As a young surgeon, Dr. Lucille Teasdale founded a hospital in Uganda where she dedicated her life to providing quality health care and staff training. more »
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Takes us to a hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where circumcised women are given medical care. more »
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In this shockingly frank program we hear adult women tell of the childhood experiences that so traumatized their later years. Included is the testimony of a formerly abusive father who underwent psychiatric treatment. ( more »
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Mira Nair's award-winning film shows the life of female strippers in a Bombay nightclub. The women reveal their hopes and fears, while showing strength and resilience. more »
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China's students are marching in formation and chanting miliary slogans. But behind the closed dormitory doors at Nanjing University, they act surprisingly similar to Western students. A frank look at the generation torn between communism and capitalism. more »
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These spontaneous, close-up portraits of individuals coping with affairs of daily life in China - finding a mate, running a business, negotiating local politics - put a human face on a nation of over a billion people that is in rapid transition. Please note the varying lengths. more »
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This documentary looks at women who work in the field of ironworking, a construction trade that is overwhelmingly male, and the attendant physical and emotional problems the women face. more »
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This delightful film shows ten young women who aspire to to be dancers in musical theater as they take a master class with choreographer Ann Reinking and Gwen Verdon. They share with us their insecurities about their bodies. more »
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The world-famous Chilean author reveals her passionate engagement with life and politics. The author of nearly twenty novels, her books have been translated in over thirty languages. In this film, she reveals how events in her life impacted on her writing. more »
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The stories of six educated, articulate women who are among the "hidden homeless"; those who have lost a job, lost a home, and refuse to go to a shelter. more »
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More and more young Japanese women are rebelling against the societal norm. Instead, these women pursue careers and live with their parents, a trend that's having a dramatic impact on the economy and population. more »
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Documents the remarkable career of the African American opera singer who is world renowned. Born in Augusta, Georgia, she grew up during a time of racial strife. Nevertheless, she broke new ground for African Americans in the classical arts. more »
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Minniejean Brown Trickey was 16 years old when she become one of the Little Rock Nine. Since then, she led a life of passionate social activism and been an inspiration to many. more »
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A realistic portrait of the financial and emotional challenges faced by single mothers heading households. more »
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A portrait of a twenty-one year old Indian film star, who despite the glamour of her career, still has the traditional values of her parents. She will have a suitable arranged marriage. more »
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In Samburu culture the women do all the work. In 1990 a small group of women decided to band together and create their own village. They prospered without men! more »
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This stunning film takes us to a rare matriarchal community in southwest China. The ancient Mosuo culture has survived both the time of the concubines and the Cultural Revolution. more »
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This groundbreaking program shatters the Victorian notion of childhood innocence, revealing the sexual abuse of children committed by other children. more »
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This BBC film exposes how fundamentalist interpretation of the Koran in Pakistan leaves women vulnerable to be murdered for seeking divorce. more »
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Dr. Curtis Boyd is a courageous doctor who risked imprisonment, loss of license, and his future in order to provide safe abortions in an era when women could not get them legally. more »
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The film follows one strong, open, lively girl as she navigates the passage from preadolescence to adolescence. We follow Lila from a tree-climbing eight-year-old who likes to compete with boys, through the complexities of a changing body and a new set of rules for behavior. more »
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The meddahatts are women musicians who perform for other women in Algeria. Many are widowed or divorced and have fallen on hard times. Only a woman filmmaker could have penetrated this closed environment and captured on film such a spontaneous portrait. more »
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First-hand accounts of the pioneering women who settled the Israeli kibbutz. more »
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Portraits of women of different ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, who are living full lives although HIV/AIDS positive. more »
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The myth has captured the imagination of generations. Today's women cast Lizzie in the role of heroine, overpowering patriarchy more »
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Since 1980 when China decreed that couples should have just one child, there has been an alarming disproportion of young men over young women. Here are the personal stories behind a modern demographic crisis in China. more »
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As China changes at an awesome rate, becoming more industrialized, urban, and westernized, this film explores how this has impacted traditional relationships between men and women. more »
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This warm, intimate documentary follows a young Tuareg girl in Niger who is about is about to marry a man she has never met and documents a quickly vanishing tradition. more »
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Reminiscent of Amy Tan's "Joy Luck Club," this real life film focuses on the widening chasm between a Chinese mother, a first generation immigrant, and her daughter, eager to assimilate more »
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Documents the dependencies and abuses that existed during apartheid between the white mistress of the house and her black servant. more »
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In the dangerous, male-oriented world of Kandahar, home to drug smugglers and terrorists, a policewoman, Malalai Kakar is blazing the way for women. Unhindered by her heavy burka, this mother of six chases wife-beaters, murderers and thieves across Afghanistan. more »
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This film focuses on an African woman who presides over the cloth market in Lome, Togo. She is a powerful woman treated with deference who owns a prized possesion, a chauffeured Mercedes Benz. more »
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Mandy's husband, Josh, was in a motorcycle accident which left him in a seven day coma with death imminent. Mandy, desperate to preserve her tie to her beloved husband, asked that his sperm be harvested so that she could have his child. more »
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This irrepressible film follows the fortunes of two attractive thirty-year old Beijing fashion designers who are out to make their mark on the international fashion industry. more »
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A documentary portrait of one of the most influential women of our time. Using never-before-seen archival footage and interviews, it weaves together the story of the scientist, adventurer, and international celebrity. more »
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This disturbing documentary looks at findings that point to pollutants as the cause of endocrinal changes in the male reproductive system. more »
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This film explores the lives of four child molesters. Three are in treatment at the nation's largest community-based facility in Seattle; we witness dramatic group therapy sessions and learn how devastating this crime is to the child and the family. more »
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Jewish feminists are creating new rituals to celebrate Jewish holidays like Passover, demonstrating how traditions can be updated to make women full participants. more »
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How does a young African American woman cope with the ideals of feminine beauty imposed by white society? Fifteen year-old Jantre finally comes to accept her "unruly" hair and feels liberated. more »
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Each day, thousands of women leave underdeveloped countries to seek work as domestics in more prosperous places. This film shows the human and sometimes tragic side of their stories. more »
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When aging mothers move in with their grown daughters, the role reversals trigger social conflict, emotional adjustments, and unexpected difficulties. more »
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Takes a fresh look at one of the most formative relationships of a woman's life by profiling four mother/daughter relationships. more »
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This provocative film raises complex bioethical issues arising from fertility advances such as "in vitro" fertilization and the implantation of fertilized eggs. more »
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What drives a woman like Susan Smith to drown her two young sons? The Southern conservatives think it's a breakdown in "family values." more »
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Astonishingly intimate, this festival film is a record of four years in the life of a charming and precocious teenager growing into womanhood in a township outside Cape Town. She faces not only life in a “colored” community beset by gangsterism and drug abuse, but also the toughness and anger within her own family. more »
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This documentary explores how several Japanese women struggled to reconcile their traditional upbringing with their desire to create unique lives. more »
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In today's Arab-Muslim culture, the most taboo subject for women is sex. In this film, eight enlightened Muslim women living in France speak out frankly about their sexual education and experiences in relation to Islamic tradition. more »
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My American Girls is a vivid portrayal of a year in the life of the Ortiz family—hard working Dominican immigrants who live frugally in Brooklyn and dream of retiring one day in their native country. But their American-born daughters have a different idea. more »
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An engaging film on a memorable rite of passage, as shared by mothers and daughters. more »
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A spirited group of people of varied ages and backgrounds recall the first time they made love. Some are funny, some sad – all are interesting! more »
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This unique documentary interweaves the story of the filmmaker—who grew up in Persia, today known as Iran—with the history of the country from the 1930s onward to the Islamic Revolution. more »
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The sexual abuse of children committed by women, most often mothers, is a rarely documented subject. In this film, six victims of maternal incest powerfully convey their nightmarish child hoods. more »
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This is a funny, sometimes irreverent statement about growing up Asian-American in a white society. Suzanne's mother unwittingly fostered a "Chinese self-hatred" which her daughter had to overcome. more »
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This unique film explores Ndebele rituals and their art forms as well as their political empowerment. more »
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This film shares the story of the life and works of Doris Humphrey, a seminal figure in modern dance who forever changed the way dancers move, the conception of choreography, and audiences’ experience of dance. more »
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This film on the women of Oman shows us educated, independent women who dress in the traditional way, yet are moving into new areas for women. more »
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A midwife in Zimbabwe tries to reconcile traditional birth practices with modern methods. more »
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This startling documentary reveals how the internet contributes to alienation, especially in the area of human sexuality. In North America alone, more than 8 million people pursue sex online at least 11 hours a week. The internet has actually removed touch and human contact from sex more »
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A humorous and inspiring look at women who have been abandoned by their husbands for younger women. more »
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Many women over age forty soon realize that their own eggs have expired. These women decide to use eggs donated from a younger woman. This film follows three older women, as they struggle to achieve a pregnancy and later, as they cope with the unique problems of being an older mom. more »
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The filmmaker comes from a troubled Viennese Jewish family dislocated by the Nazis. Memories of her American childhood recur, when her emotionally ill brother bullied her mercilessly and terrible secrets were kept from her. more »
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A portrait of a Christian fundamentalist woman who was a militant anti-Choice leader but came to question the movement. more »
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This film documents the tribal custom of honor killings which permits a family member to kill a woman who has sullied the family's moral standard. This film focuses on Palestinian villages where such killings are sanctioned and go unpunished. ( more »
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This fascinating biography relates the life and times of Irène Joliot-Curie, the eldest daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie. Although less well known than her parents, Irene and her husband, Frédéric, made a contribution to nuclear physics that was of equally ground-breaking significance. more »
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This remarkably honest and revealing documentary shatters the stereotypes held by many people unfamiliar with the gay community, showing that many lesbians have mainstream values and lead conventional lives. more »
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This amazingly up-close documentary brings us into the lives of an Ethiopian couple, Yezina and Mesagnow. Yezina suffers from a fistula which causes her urine to constantly leak.Two million African women share her fate because tradition forces young girls into early marriages when their bodies are too immature to bear children safely. more »
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Two important women writers from the West Bank speak out for full participation of women in the Arab world. more »
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This masterful documentary examines pornography in its social and historical context. It explores whether freedom of expression and the preservation of values which define a civilized society are irreconcilable.Well-known law professors, civil rights advocates and feminists give their views. more »
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Meitner was a brilliant Jewish physicist from Vienna who had to flee Berlin in 1938 after working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Together with her close friend and colleague, Otto Hahn, they developed the theory of nuclear fission. Yet after the war she was overlooked by the Nobel Prize Committee who awarded the prize to Hahn alone. more »
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This documentary explores the effects of hard core pornography in our society. Does it indeed contribute to violence and de-sensitization? more »
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This award-winning program is a wise and witty portrait of the outspoken Jessica Mitford. From her acid pen came such books as The American Way of Death, The Trial of Dr. Spock, and Kind and Unusual Punishment. more »
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Daily life in a village in Northern Senegal. more »
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The tragic story of Pela Atroshi, a daughter of Kurdish immigrants living in Sweden, who was murdered by her family after she went out on a date. more »
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This film explores the lives of two Iranian prostitutes in an uncompromising but sympathetic manner. This cutting-edge film illustrates how prostitution functions in a country where it is banned and where adultery sometimes results in capital punishment. more »
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This film provides an intimate view of one man¹s therapeutic journey to control his abusive behavior toward his wife. We witness his therapy sessions and the support he finds there during painful process of change. more »
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Though a culture of fear, secrecy, and hopelessness prohibits many women in the military from speaking out about their frequent sexual abuses, Rape in the Ranks shares the story four young women and their families brave enough to talk openly about their ordeals. more »
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This highly-charged documentary examines the causes and consequences of rape, one of the fastest growing crimes in the America. It includes an emotional confrontation between rapists and victims of rape. more »
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This powerful video focuses on participants in a program at Oregon State Hospital aimed at rehabilitating sex offenders. more »
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A sixty-one year old Lakota from the Standing Rock Reservation, who has recently graduated N.Y.U. film school, returns to the reservation to produce honest, realistic portrayals of her people more »
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Filmed in four areas of the world where young women coming of age are particularly vulnerable. more »
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Without resorting to sensationalism, the film explores the long-practiced custom of female circumcision and its ongoing practice in many cultures, particularly across Africa more »
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This film chronicles the inspiring journey of breast cancer survivors who compete in a challenging canoe race and prove once again their love of life and survival skills. more »
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A biography of the dynamic but quiet African American woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus led to dramatic changes in the sixties. more »
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Many men of Indian origin residing in the West travel to India to meet an Indian woman, marry her and bring her to the West. Increasingly a large percentage of these brides are abandoned over dowry disputes. more »
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This starkly beautiful film exemplifies the burden borne by African women to survive and support their families. The Ghanaian women who live on a lagoon in Ada, mine for salt with their bare hands during the three month-long dry season. more »
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Say I Do chronicles the stories of three "mail-order brides" from the Philippines who uprooted themselves to marry men they did not know in order to escape poverty. Life was not what they expected. more »
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When the Pinochet dictatorship came to an end, it left a legacy of bereaved mothers, sisters and wives, who were determined to find out the fate of their loved ones who had "disappeared." more »
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A portrait of Millie Jeffrey, an indomitable activist for social change, who was awarded the Medal of Freedom by former President Clinton more »
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A grassroots movement, spearheaded by newly educated women, has successfully halted female circumcision in Senegal. more »
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Explores the "gender verification test" as it is applied in the sphere of international sports competition. more »
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This comprehensive film is a cultural guide through the maze of menopause for both sexes. more »
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Some medical experts claim that a shocking 98% of hysterectomies are unnecessary. Yet, half the women in North America will have had their ovaries removed by the time they are 65. A "don't miss" film for women's studies. more »
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Explores the conditions that have led to escalating rates of teen pregnancy and examines the role that public schools can play in stemming the tide of early and unwanted pregnancy. more »
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This is an inspirational documentary about a young Muslim woman, trained as an anthropologist, who suffered hardship and professional censure to save a desert tribe from becoming extinct in the harsh Sahara. more »
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The effects of the one-child policy combined with a rapid revolution in China's values and lifestyles, have created increasingly selective middle-class Shanghai women. For working class men, finding a wife is a quest that requires money, time, and the strength to withstand countless disappointments. more »
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This unique film provides insight into the sad world of compulsive overeating and the turmoil of addictive behavior. The filmmakers follows his mother over five months as she struggles to change her eating habits. more »
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Originally from a small village in the Buryat region of Siberia, Irina Pantaeva emigrated to the U.S. in the 1980's. Every summer, Irina, a world-famous model, and her son travel back to help her troubled family, trapped in the new free market society. Siberian Dream shows the effects of perestroika and glasnost on this Buryat community. more »
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Narrated by Rita Moreno, this film documents startling testimonies of women who were mistreated and sexually abused while seeking care in Peruvian public health facilities. more »
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This unusually sensitive film is a powerful reminder that adults must take children seriously if they hint that something is amiss at home. The sisters in this film found the strength as grown women to come forward and prosecute their father in a court of law for his sexual molestation of them. more »
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A striking number of deaths of military women in Iraq were ruled suicide by the US Army and remain shrouded in suspicious circumstances. The parents of Private LaVena Johnson have grave suspicions that their daughter’s death involved foul play and fight to have her case reopened. more »
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Sister Helen, a tough, 69-year-old Benedictine nun, runs the Travis Center, a clean and sober halfway house for recovering addicts and ex-convicts in the South Bronx, New York more »
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Four young women of considerable weight proudly proclaim that they can feel attractive and find love despite the disapproval of society (and their mothers!) more »
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This multi-festival film documents the filmmaker's ten-year struggle with anorexia nervosa. Antidepressants and therapy helped her return to normalcy, and now she wants others to know about this disorder. more »
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Mira Nair's portrait of a family split between two worlds. The husband has come to America to seek his fortune, while his despairing wife is left ashamed and dependent on her in-laws for support. more »
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Shows the effect of the women's movement on the lives of several women of diverse backgrounds who, although they were not activists, felt the effect of changing gender roles. more »
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This lively film challenges the stereotypes of the Southern woman - neither Scarlett O'Hara or Daisy Mae. more »
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In a rural village of southwestern China a bevy of young girls yearn for an education. Their parents are poor and mostly illiterate; going to school costs money the families can ill afford. more »
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Quilting is interwoven with the history of black women in America. We meet ebullient women and see their colorful creations, which link them to their past. more »
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This historical documentary chronicles the risky but successful effort of a few women working at Delta Pride Catfish to organize a union at their plant. The mostly black female workforce had worked in noisy and wet factories for minimum wage and without benefits. more »
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Renowned writer Stieg Larsson’s Millennium books—including The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo—are renowned bestsellers worldwide, spawning films in Sweden and in Hollywood. Though they are considered mysteries, Larsson’s partner Eva Gabrielsson explains their true intention as fierce social criticisms. more »
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This documentary visits Gatesville Penitentiary in Texas, where three female inmates convicted of murder and serving sentences ranging from 25 to 40 years describe the domestic violence that eventually brought them to prison. more »
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This highly visual documentary shows an ancient, sacred Apache coming of age ceremony that marks the passage to womanhood of Apache young women. more »
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Suzanne Bonnar was the mixed-race child of a black American serviceman and a Scotswoman from a small seaside town. She grew up without her father -- a black child in white Scotland. In this very moving film, she re-unites with her father and journeys with him to meet her close-knit black family in South Carolina. more »
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Recounts the stories of Czech women who endured years of imprisonment during the Communist era because of their beliefs. more »
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The stories of several women show that welfare reform has made the system less responsive to individual needs and circumstances. more »
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For one whole year, five very different 16-year-old girls were interviewed and filmed at home, in school, at work and with their friends. The girls openly shared their thoughts and feelings. more »
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The five girls interviewed in the film Talk 16 are filmed again three years later. What emerges is an insightful portrait of growing up female. more »
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Twelve women with breast cancer, in different stages, come together for a retreat. They share their experiences and are helped by the understanding and compassion of the group. more »
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A sparkling young Baghdadi woman, Kawkab, leads us around her city with a mischievous glint. Defying the stereotype of the Muslim woman, she is not afraid to speak her mind about anything, from sex, love and virginity to her pro-Saddam patriotism. more »
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Terror at Home provides an unflinching look at some of the personal stories that lie behind the staggering statistics about domestic violence, a crime that cuts across all lines—racial, educational, and financial. more »
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Only 20% of girls ever enter a schoolhouse in Africa as cultural attitudes, more than economics undermine their future‹and the future of Africa. more »
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This beautifully filmed video reveals how hard life is for the women of Mauritania, who do all the farming and housework while the men take their ease. Tradition and Islamic religion are intertwined to reinforce strict gender roles. more »
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Sabrina Mathews met Martha Aguilar on a journey to show support for the Sandinistas. Their ten year correspondence reflects affairs of the heart as well as global turmoil. more »
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This film highlights the struggle that people with disabilities face in their quest to be recognized as sexual beings, free to express their sexuality and lead sexually active lives, whether heterosexual or homosexual. One of the women profiled is a lesbian who is severly hearing disabled. more »
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Prostitution and sex trafficking of women and children is a global problem. The United Nations estimates that more than one million children are forced into sexual slavery each year. This powerful documentary follows Chris Payne, a former police officer turned private investigator, as he investigates this traumatizing crime. more »
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The disturbing issue of "acquaintance rape" (also known as "date rape") is brought to life in this powerful short film. Two female high school students and the two boys who raped them describe their behavior and feelings before, during and after the attacks. more »
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This film shares the story of Madame C.J. Walker, the daughter of slaves who became America's first self-made millionairess. more »
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In Ethiopia, a center of prostitution in Africa, girls as young as 9 years old are forced into the life by economic circumstances. Many become HIV infected, for condoms are seldom used. more »
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Using old photographs and interviews, this film tells the remarkable tale of the courageous Asian women who left their families and all that was familiar to settle in the New World and marry men they had never met. The men had come to build the transcontinental railroad. The film is a testimony to the strength, resourcefulness and dignity of these women. more »
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Told through moving accounts by family members, teachers, and doctors, this powerful documentary documents the brutal child abuse case of Eli Creekmore, a boy who was beaten to death by his father after a startling failing of the state's child protective laws. more »
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This is the amazing true story of a nineteenth century Canadian girl who ran away from home disguised as a travelling Bible salesman. Still disguised as a man, she served in the American Civil War in the Union Army as a dispatch carrier, nurse and spy. more »
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This innovative work is based on an actual letter by a teenager reaching out to understand a childhood of sexual abuse. more »
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Olga Samaroff, born Lucy Hickenlooper, had to battle anti-American sentiments and Old World prejudices against women to forge her remarkable career as a concert pianist in the early years of twentieth century. more »
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Some women in Senegal emerged from their domestic roles into breadwinner roles after the economic crisis in the 1980's. They formed collectives, called Roscas, which are cooperatives very much in keeping with the African sense of community. more »
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This video documents the inspiring example of Four Women, Inc., an independent abortion and gynecology clinic in a small, post-industrial Massachusetts town. It presents a rare and intimate look at the daily work of providing excellent abortion care. more »
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This film focuses on the myths and realities of prostitution as related by seven women formerly in "the life." more »
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The filmmaker, an educated African-American journalist, celebrates her 35th birthday and acknowledges to her dismay that she is STILL unmarried. The fact is, there is a shortage of available professional men for women like her. more »
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Portrait of the daringly inventive woman science fiction writer whose visionary writing gained her a loyal following. more »
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A sensitive study of the effect on children when their mothers are incarcerated. more »
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In this documentary we hear from four women who have provided continuous care for a loved one, who speak candidly of the physical and emotional stress of this responsibility. They are in need of support systems as much as those they nurture more »
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The experiences of a generation of African-American women during the Great Migration north are described in this engaging portrait of a 77-year old washroom attendant. more »
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This award-winner addresses the concerns of working parents, the needs of both children and day-care providers, and the social risks of day-care shortage. more »
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This heartwarming film explores why people of a variety of ages, cultures, and gender orientation, still want to marry in an era when it is socially acceptable for couples to live together, forgoing wedding vows. more »
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This multi-award winning program about childhood sexual abuse dramatizes the life story of victims who grew up never feeling safe in their own home. It is delicately told, with no graphic, sexual or violent scenes. more »
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The turbulent life of Anna Larina, wife of Nikolai Bukharin, is entwined with 20th century Russian history. more »
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Chinese author Jung Chang's grandmother was born into a still feudal society, and became a warlord's concubine. Her mother, became a high ranking Communist Party official. This film brings to life the memories Chang recorded in her best-selling autobiography, Wild Swans. more »
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Willa Beatrice Brown was the first African American woman in the U.S. to be a licensed pilot. Her
efforts were responsible for Congress' forming the renowned Tuskegee Airmen squadron, leading to the integration of the U.S. military service in 1948. more »
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Challenges the misconception that women do not get heart disease. In fact, they are often misdiagnosed. more »
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Soul searching interviews with women around fifty, amusing animated sequences and enchanting re-enactments of early memories are intertwined to create this one-of-a-kind exploration of the transforming emotional experience of menopause. more »
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What does the veil mean to Muslim women? Is it a symbol of repression or faith? Journalist Samira Ahmed travels from her home in Britain to the Middle East, Asia, Malaysia and Africa interviewing a wide variety of men and women -- spiritual leaders, educators, and activists to understand the roots of the Islamic view of women. more »
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The focus is on three vulnerable women refugees who must cope with being uprooted. One is a 13 year-old Vietnamese girl living in a camp in Malaysia, another a widow from Mozambique and the third is a Salvadorian mother living precariously with three children in Costa Rica. more »
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Introduces us to women of diverse ages and backgrounds who have developed large, successful businesses. more »
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Taslima Nasreen, Bangladesh writer, gained international attention when Islamic leaders issued a fatwa calling for her death. more »
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A two-part documentary on the conditions of women in today's economically oriented Chinese society. It visits four diverse parts of China more »
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A series of three videos that gives insight into the complex position of the educated Muslim woman. more »
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This video focuses on Soraya Altorki, originally from Saudi Arabia, who is now a professor of anthropology at the American University in Cairo. more »
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Toucan Faisal of Jordan is the first and only woman in the Jordanian parliament. A former television personality, she decided to go into government to rectify the abuses her investigative reports uncovered. more »
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Focuses on Aicha Belarbi, professor of sociology at the University of Rabat, who has written books about gender roles, child welfare, women and power, and the modern Muslim woman.. more »
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Focusing on war-torn areas of the world, this inspiring program profiles women living with the day-to-day tragedy of war. Part I begins in Israel and moves to Northern Ireland where we meet Nobel Peace Prize winner Meiread Corrigan who formed Peace People. Part II is dedicated to the women of El Salvador, working for the popular front movements for a more just society, and moves to the U.S. where women are fighting to reclaim their neighborhoods from crime. more »
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Part I begins in Israel, where the Palestinian uprising has escalated the conflict between Jews and Arabs. It shows women on both sides willing to bear arms but also involved in the peace-making process.
In Northern Ireland we meet Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Corrigan. She, along with Betty Williams, have formed Peace People, a ground-breaking movement for ending violence in that country. more »
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Part II is dedicated to the women of the Americas. It begins in El Salvador, a country where torture and terrorism are part of every family's history. Salvadorean women are assuming leadership positions in the popular front movements for a more just society. In Boston, New York, Washington and Los Angeles, we meet women who are leading the fight to reclaim their neighborhoods from crime. more »
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Profiles of women who have championed human rights both in their own country and internationally. They mobilize to improve conditions for workers in foreign -owned factories in Mexico. more »
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A group of septuagenarians in the South Bronx, after a life of hard work and struggle, now have time for themselves. They have immersed themselves in a drama group at the local senior citizen center where they create theater pieces from their own life experiences. more »
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]The Women of Summer is the emotionally riveting and previously untold story of the seventeen hundred blue collar women who participated in a controversial and inspired educational experiment known as The Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers from 1921 to 1938. more »
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This BBC film takes us to the heart of rural China, where one woman about to have her third child is in trouble with the family planning officials, and another excitedly plans for her traditional wedding. more »
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Educates women about safe sex and other issues that relate to women regarding this epidemic. more »
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¡Ya No Mas! chronicles the epidemic of domestic violence in Nicaragua, as several women recount their attacks and their frustrating attempts to obtain justice from the Nicaraguan police, district attorneys, and judges. more »
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In the Muslim country of Zanzibar, where women’s activities are severely curtailed, a feisty group of women has defied the cultural constraints by playing a man’s game—soccer—and giving reign to their competitive spirit. more »
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This is an intimate and spontaneous depiction of the lives of Zulu women left behind while their husbands, migrant laborers, work in the mines far away. By turns sad, touching or amusing, this film bears eloquent testimony to the ravages of an economic system which tears families apart to feed South Africa¹s insatiable mines. more »
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