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| ...ALL OUR LIVES Examines the lives of several women who actively participated in the social revolution during the Spanish Civil War, women who are as dynamic in their 80s as they were in their youth. |
| ABORTION: STORIES FROM NORTH AND SOUTH This cross-cultural survey shows how abortion transcends race, religion and social class, and how differences in the practice and perception of abortion are mainly in the degree of secrecy and danger accompanying it. |
| AFGHAN WOMEN: A History of Struggle The tumultuous history of Afghanistan from the perspective of the country's female population, Afghan Women: A History of Struggle chronicles the stories of women who have risked their lives to achieve political, economic, and social equality. |
| AFRICA BETWEEN MYTH AND REALITY Showcases the view of African life featured in the paintings, drawings and etchings of Betty LaDuke, one of America's most accomplished multicultural artists. |
| AFTER THE BLACK BOOK In April of 1999, Chilean journalist Alejandra Matus wrote The Black Book of Chilean Justice, an exposé of the Chilean judicial system. |
| THE AGGRESSIVES This dynamic film explores the lives of six New York City women who assume the category of "aggressive" through masculine roles, behavior, and dress. It offers a unique appreciation of a little known subculture within society's gender tapestry. |
| THE ANGELMAKERS In a sleepy Hungarian village, after the First World War, a series of arsenic murders took place. Over 140 bodies were discovered. The victims, all men, were apparently killed by their wives. This film considers the factors behind one of the most extreme examples of female uprising in history. |
| AS THE WIND ROCKS THE WAGON Actress Amy Warner vividly presents the experiences and feelings of these pioneers in her one-woman performance based on entries from diaries, letters and memoirs of pioneer women and a young girl who trekked the Oregon Trail. |
| BAD GIRL In a Los Angeles film studio, the cameras roll on an X-rated film, and in the director's chair sits a woman. In New York and San Francisco, companies created by women market hard-core videos to the female consumer. |
| BENEDITA DA SILVA A profile of the first black woman ever to be elected city councillor and member of the Brazilian Parliament from the favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro. |
| BETTY LaDUKE: AN ARTIST'S JOURNEY FROM THE BRONX TO TIMBUKTU This video takes us on a trip through six decades and over twenty countries in tracing the development of Betty LaDuke, one of America's leading multicultural artists. |
| BETWEEN US This video, conceived and produced by breast cancer survivors, will serve as an emotional first-aid kit for newly diagnosed breast cancer patients during the frightening time period immediately following diagnosis. |
| BEYOND CONVICTION An eye-opening look at a pioneering mediation program in which victims of violent crimes meet face-to-face with their perpetrators, this acclaimed documentary, featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, introduces us to a process that could have far-reaching repercussions for the ways we approach crime, criminal justice, and conflict resolution. |
| BIRTH STORIES This series of funny and frank interviews, in which women tell their personal stories of pregnancy and birth, is intercut with black and white footage of actual births. |
| BULLSHIT Her opponents gave her the "Bullshit Award" for sustaining global poverty. Time magazine hailed her as one of the great heroes of our time. She is Vandana Shiva and this is a film about globalization, genetic engineering, bio-piracy, food and water. |
| CHAMPIONS Members of the 1978 world champion Cuban women's volleyball team discuss their long hours of training and discipline, the thrill of their victory, and the painful nostalgia of retirement. |
| CHARLES DANA GIBSON: PORTRAIT OF AN ILLUSTRATOR This video, produced by Gibson's great-grandson, explores the origins of the Gibson Girl, with an in-depth look at her creator and his life's work. The documentary features numerous pen and ink drawings, interviews with family members and illustration experts, plus rare archival footage of Gibson. |
| CISSY HOUSTON: SWEET INSPIRATION This biographial profile of a woman whose career has successfully combined gospel and popular music moves from smoky clubs to a Sweet Inspirations reunion concert, from nostalgic gospel singing with The Drinkard Singers to a sold-out concert with Cissy's daughter Whitney. |
| CONTRACEPTION: THE STALLED REVOLUTION Journalist Linda Ellerbee examines the state of contraception in the U.S. today, including women's dissatisfaction with the methods currently available. |
| COUNTERCLOCKWISE This short drama describes the twenty-year friendship of four lively but vastly different women who gather for a three-day reunion after having drifted apart over the years. |
| COUNTERPOINT FOR HER Counterpoint For Her exposes the brutal reality of human trafficking. This eye-opening documentary follows several men and women intimately involved in the trade, including a local Bosnian girl who, while living in Italy in 1992, was sold into the trade by a good friend of her brother. |
| CZECH WOMEN: NOW WE ARE FREE The peaceful "Velvet Revolution" of November 1989, which put an end to decades of communist rule in Czechoslovakia, has led to a remarkable transforamtion of people's day-to-day lives. |
DANCING WITH MY FATHER What do daughters learn from their fathers about men? This video is an intimate family view of how adult love is often shaped by what a child learns at home. |
DAUGHTERS OF FREE MEN This video tells the story of Lucy Hall and other young Yankee farm women who enter a new world of factory labor and boarding house life in the textile mills of 1830s Lowell, Massachusetts. |
| DAUGHTERS OF THE TROUBLES: BELFAST STORIES This timely documentary offers first-person accounts of the lives of two working-class Belfast women told against the violent history of the last twenty-five years in Northern Ireland. |
DEAR GABE Dear Gabe tells the story of six college friends – five female and one male, queer and straight, black, white and in-between, Jewish and uncertain, biological and adoptive-moms – who had children in their thirties. |
DOING AS THEY CAN features a fugitive woman slave describing life, work, and day-to-day resistance to slavery on a North Carolina cotton plantation during the 1840s and 1850s. |
| DOLORES This short drama on domestic abuse, based on extensive research with battered Latinas, focuses on a Hispanic family, showing how the father's machismo has intimidated both wife and daughter into continual fear of physical abuse and alienated the son who resents his father's authoritarian attitudes. |
THE DOUBLE DAY A look at working women in Latin America and their efforts to achieve equality in the home and workplace. Most combine their participation in the labor market with their family functions as mothers and wives, thus working a 'double day.' |
DREAMS ENSNARED: DOMINICAN MIGRATION TO NEW YORK This documentary examines the situation of Dominican immigration into New York City, detailing the economic pressures of unemployment and poverty in the Dominican Republic which have led to a rapidly growing Dominican community in New York. |
EARTH & WOMEN This inspiring video shows how environmentally-sensitive women are designing and building their own homes, using straw bale walls coated with mud plasters. |
| FICTION AND OTHER TRUTHS: A FILM ABOUT JANE RULE Profiles the life and work of lesbian novelist, essayist, teacher and political activist Jane Rule. |
| THE FLAPPER STORY Offers a lively mixture of contemporary interviews and archival film footage in a thoughtful examination of the social phenomenon of the 'flapper,' the provocative 'New Woman' of America's Roaring '20s. |
| THE FORGOTTEN GRAVE This video tells the true story of Sarah Emma Edmonds, a 20-year-old woman who, disguised as a man, enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War. |
| FROM MY GRANDMOTHER'S GRANDMOTHER UNTO ME The video takes viewers on an intimate tour through the past, following the family's lineage from an 1890 homesteader to a modern-day actress who left the mountains to pursue her craft in the big city. |
| FRONTRUNNER: The Afghan Woman Who Surprised the World The heroic story of the first woman to run for President of Afghanistan. Frontrunner introduces us to Dr. Massouda Jalal, a mother of three children, whose campaign inspired thousands of women across the country to participate in the democratic process. |
| GILLES' WIFE Set in the 1930's, a haunting tale of a devoted wife who suspects her husband is having an affair with another woman, featuring an extraordinary performance from Emmanuelle Devos. |
| GIRL BEAT: POWER OF THE DRUM This video profiles members of Banda Dida, an all-girl drumming and vocal group in Salvador, Brazil. |
| GOLUB: LATE WORKS ARE THE CATASTROPHES An acclaimed documentary on American artist Leon Golub. This special edition DVD includes Woman as Protagonist: The Art of Nancy Spero, a 45-minute documentary on Golub's wife and studio partner of over 50 years, the prominent feminist artist Nancy Spero. |
| HANAN ASHRAWI: A WOMAN OF HER TIME Profiles Hanan Ashrawi, former spokesperson for the Palestine Liberation Organization during the Middle East peace talks with Israel, but who later turned down a position in the new government in favor of continuing her efforts on behalf of peace and human rights. |
HEAVEN WILL PROTECT THE WORKING GIRL This video tells the story of the 1909 shirtwaist strike is told through vignettes that explore immigrant women's lives in turn-of-the-century New York. |
HER CHINA TODAY This documentary is about five women in China from different age, social and economic groups whose lives reflect the lives of many women all over China today. |
HIDE YOUR WORDS As they walk toward the salt springs, two young girls talk about a fellow classmate, a 14-year-old girl who was forced to marry a 73-year-old man. An intimate look at the reality of arranged marriages in Iran. |
| HOLY TERROR Examines the political activism of the religious New Right, focusing on their anti-abortion efforts. |
HOPE OF AWAKENING Features interviews with former victims of domestic violence who discuss the various forms of violence, both physical and emotional, in abusive relationships, the psychological patterns that keep women from leaving abusive spouses or boyfriends, and related issues of fear and low self-esteem. |
| HOSTAGE OF TIME This documentary focuses on the experience of a young woman doctor who in August 1993 returns to her village in South Lebanon to find it badly damaged after a massive Israeli attack which destroyed fifty villages and displaced 450,000 people. |
| HULL HOUSE: THE HOUSE THAT JANE BUILT In 1889, amidst the slums of Chicago's Near West Side, pioneer social worker Jane Addams (1860-1935) opened Hull House to aid the poor, largely immigrant residents of the neighborhood. |
I AM JUANA BACALLAO A profile of the colorful singer who uses the street Spanish of Cuba to sing, swagger and slang her way into the hearts of her audience. |
IDA B. WELLS Chronicles the life and career of this legendary black woman journalist, who gained international attention for her campaign against the frequent lynchings of blacks during the period after the Civil War. |
I WITNESS Portrays religious terrorism in Pensacola, Florida, which has become the epicenter of the national debate over abortion, including a 1984 clinic bombing, the 1993 murder of a clinic physician, and the 1994 murder of another clinic physician and his escort. |
| IN AND OUT OF FOCUS This video is about women in the film business and how they balance children, love lives and career—or how they don’t. When a female filmmaker discovers she is unexpectedly pregnant, her life is turned upside down, as she struggles to balance family and career. |
| IN BAD FAITH This video exposes the deceptive activities of so-called "Crisis Pregnancy Centers," which advertise themselves as women's health clinics. |
| IN THE BAG Handbag, purse, pocketbook, pouch, clutch-call it what you will-but just about every woman carries one. The relationship between a woman and her bag is both intimate and universal. |
| IT'S OUR BABY Examines nurse-midwifery as a significant and increasingly popular alternative to traditional hospital childbirth methods. |
| JANE RULE...WRITING Novelist Jane Rule's discussions of the craft and her philosophy of writing are blended with readings from Rule's novels and stories and an interview with Smith College professor Marilyn Schuster, who discusses plot, characterization and other aspects of fiction, moral statements in literature, and issues of freedom of expression and censorship. |
| JENI LEGON: LIVING IN A GREAT BIG WAY Examines both sides of the controversy surrounding the death penalty, providing a cross- cultural survey, explaining which countries use the death penalty, how often, for what reasons, and the various methods used. |
| JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE This investigative documentary deals with the brutal murder of two young Puerto Rican men, Antonio Rosario and Hilton Vega, who were shot by NYPD detectives (one of them a former bodyguard for Mayor Rudy Giuliani) in the Bronx in early 1995. |
KABABAIHAN: FILIPINA PORTRAITS Profiles some of the key women involved in the grassroots organizing of the 'People's Power' revolution in the Philippines which brought down Ferdinand Marcos and swept Corazon Aquino to power in 1989. |
LA OPERACION Puerto Rico has the highest incidence of female sterilization in the world. Over one-third of all Puerto Rican women of childbearing age have been sterilized. |
| LADIES OF THE LAND As small farms continue to disappear at an alarming rate, a growing number of women are venturing into this tradition-bound, male-dominated industry - and revitalizing it from within. Ladies of the Land explores the recent emergence of the woman farmer and her connection to the boom in organic farming. |
LAURA CLAY: VOICE OF CHANGE A biographical profile of Laura Clay (1849-1941), a key figure in the Women's Rights Movement who devoted her life to the struggle for equal educational opportunities, child custody rights, equal pay for equal work, and the right to vote. |
THE LEGENDARY GIRL OF THE SKIES: SABIHA GOKCEN Sabiha Gokcen was the world's first female combat pilot, yet the story of this extraordinary Turkish woman is relatively unknown in the United States . The Legendary Girl of The Skies incorporates rare archival footage and interviews to recount her amazing life story and accomplishments in aviation history. |
| A LIFE OUTSIDE CONVENTION This video profiles three extraordinary women who chose to defy society’s conventional expectations and to build fulfilling lives without becoming mothers: Molly Peacock, a poet, memoirist and cofounder of New York City’s Poetry in Motion program; Jane Weizel, a world-ranked marathon runner, coach and counselor; and Carol Bronte, a nurse-midwife. |
THE LIFE AND POETRY OF JULIA DE BURGOS This docudrama portrays the life and work of the great Puerto Rican poet, from her impoverished childhood in Puerto Rico, to her political involvement as a young woman in the nationalist movement, to her subsequent exile in Cuba and New York where she died in 1953. |
LIVING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK Interweaves the stories of six women who were profoundly affected by the choices available to them prior to the legalization of abortion. |
LUISA CAPETILLO: A PASSION FOR JUSTICE Dramatizes the life and work of Luisa Capetillo (1879-1922), a Puerto Rican journalist, writer, suffragist, and labor organizer. |
| MAGIC WOOL Tells the story of the Bordadores of Isla Negra, a group of Chilean peasant women who embroider beautiful tapestries of wool on flour sacks depicting colorful images from their daily lives. |
A MAN'S WOMAN This docudrama offers an intriguing analysis of the ideological and social implications of the anti-feminist women's movement. |
MARYSE CONDE SPEAKS FROM THE HEART This video features an interview with the widely read and gifted writer from Guadeloupe, author of 14 novels, five plays, and numerous collections of essays. |
| MAXINE SULLIVAN: LOVE TO BE IN LOVE A portrait of Maxine Sullivan (1911-87), the legendary jazz singer who rose from humble origins in Pittsburgh to become one of the foremost black vocalists in America. |
MIDWIVES: A LIVING TRADITION This video presents the mission and practice of American midwives, explaining the benefits and advantages of natural childbirth through interviews with midwives and childbirth educators, the testimonies of new mothers, footage and photos of actual births, and many touching stories. |
MISGUIDANCE This video, focusing on the experience of a frightened teenager, exposes the deceptive practices of so-called "Crisis Pregnancy Centers," which advertise themselves as women's health clinics, but which are actually staffed by anti-abortion volunteers who use misinformation and scare tactics to dissuade women from having abortions. |
MISS NAVAJO For most of us, pageants conjure up smiling beauty-queen hopefuls parading around in bathing suits or glittery gowns. But most of us have never witnessed the Miss Navajo Nation competition - a unique pageant established in 1952 to celebrate women and tradition in Navajo culture. |
MISS...OR MYTH? Examines beauty pageants and the images of women they promote, allowing both pageant supporters annd protestors to express their viewpoints. |
| A MOTHER'S JOURNEY Chronicles the experience of 46-year-old Suzanne, an unmarried American woman who, desiring to create a single-parent family of her own, adopts a baby abandoned on the streets of China in the wake of that country's notorious population laws. |
MOTHER IRELAND Examines the imagery which for centuries has portrayed Ireland as a woman and discusses the social function of these romantic stereotypes of Irish womanhood and their relationship to the nationalist struggle and Irish women today. |
MOTHERLESS: A LEGACY OF LOSS FROM ILLEGAL ABORTION Through interviews with people whose mothers died due to complications from abortion before its legalization, this video examines the tragedy of deaths from illegal abortions and the trauma of losing a mother at a young age. |
MOTORCYCLE DIARIES Examines the increasing participation of women in motorcycle riding, whether as hobby or profession. |
MOVING FORWARD Micro credit may just be a theory to some, but to three low-income women in Cali, Colombia, it has become a source of hope as they work hard to take the stigma out of poverty. |
MY YIDDISHE MOMME McCOY Filmmaker Bob Giges focuses on his spirited 90-year-old grandmother, Belle Demner McCoy, for an intimate portrait of one woman's struggle with the conflicts between family, religion and love. |
| THE NAKED FEMINIST Provocative, enlightening and revealing, The Naked Feminist challenges the myths surrounding women in the porn industry while exploring preconceived notions of control, pleasure and exploitation. |
| NEVER PERFECT How are ideals of beauty influenced by race, history, and geopolitics? With a rich selection of film clips and archival footage, Never Perfect examines the dramatic rise in popularity in cosmetic surgery among Asian-American women. |
| THE NEW CINEMA OF LATIN AMERICA (Series) This two-part documentary examines the social and artistic roots of the national cinemas of Latin America, tracing the evolution of its theoretical and esthetic positions, the development of new forms of representation, repression against filmmakers, and the emergence of a new women's cinema. |
| THE NEW CINEMA OF LATIN AMERICA: CINEMA OF THE HUMBLE Explores the movement's origins, traces the evolution of its theoretical and esthetic positions, and focuses on the development of cinema in Cuba and Nicaragua. |
| THE NEW CINEMA OF LATIN AMERICA: THE LONG ROAD Examines the development of new forms of representation, repression against filmmakers, variations of strategy in response to different circumstances in different countries, and the emergence of a new women's cinema. |
| NO OFFENCE: IRELAND'S OTHER PROTESTANTS This video examines the status of Protestants in the Republic of Ireland and the perceptions of Northern Protestants about their co- religionists. |
| NO OFFENCE: HOLY GROUND? This video examines the changing face of Catholicism, including the recent sexual abuse scandals and controversies surrounding contraception, abortion, and the role of women in the Church. |
| NO OFFENCE: LOVE'S OLD SWEET SONG This video examines the changing status of women in Ireland and the struggle to gain women's rights from the government, the Church, and employers. |
ON A WING AND A PRAYER This video profiles legendary aviator Amelia Earhart, using interviews and archival footage and photos to portray Earhart’s colorful character, her mysterious disappearance, and her impact on other women flyers. |
OTHER PEOPLE'S PICTURES Why would anyone buy someone else's family photographs? In this surprising look at the world of vintage snapshot collecting, nine obsessive collectors hunt for images that feed their fantasies and quiet the voices in their heads. |
THE OTHER SIDE OF BURKA An award-winning documentary about one of the most extreme examples of face-veiling in the Middle East. |
OUR BODIES, OUR MINDS This provocative video examines the relationships between contemporary feminism, free speech, and the sex industry. |
THE OVERBECK SISTERS: A LEGACY OF SPIRIT This video tells the story of Margaret, Hannah, Elizabeth and Mary Frances Overbeck, four sisters who rejected traditional women’s roles and in 1911 established their own pottery studio in Cambridge City, Indiana. |
| PARENTS OF THE YEAR Beginning every midnight for the past twenty-one years, Yolanda Garcia has scoured the alleys of Venice Beach, California. |
| PERIOD: THE END OF MENSTRUATION? Seasonale. Depo-Provera. Lybrel. As pharmaceutical companies develop new drugs that allow women to stop their periods for months and years at a time, this film investigates the social, cultural and medical implications of this increasingly popular new trend. |
| PERSISTENT WOMEN ARTISTS In this video, artist and art educator Betty LaDuke presents the lives and work of three American women artists of diverse heritages—Lois Mailou Jones, Mine Okubo, and Pablita Velarde. |
PERSONAL DECISIONS Examines a woman's right to control her own reproductive life and the complex considerations she faces in deciding whether to have an abortion. |
A PYRAMID OF WOMEN A group of women in India are challenging the male domination over a dangerous religious custom, where a human pyramid is formed to break decorated pots that hang several stories in the air. |
| RAISING FACE: A MENSTRUAL JOURNEY Features intimate discussions among women, as well as a class of fourth and fifth grade girls, about their menstruation experiences and their difficulties in talking about their periods. |
| RAPE/CRISIS A compelling investigation of the trauma of rape, portraying the aftermath of a rape and the work of the Rape Crisis Center in Austin, Texas. |
| RAPE FOR WHO I AM A fascinating and moving insight into the lives of South Africa's black lesbians who, raped because of their sexuality, refuse to become victims. It shatters all preconceptions of homosexuality in Africa. |
| RED RAIN This documentary profiles Gina ‘Boom Boom’ Guidi and her rise to the top ranks of women’s professional boxing. |
| REEL IRISH This video examines the world of amateur Irish dancing, featuring interviews with Irish women in Great Britain who have passed on this cultural tradition within their own families and the wider Irish immigrant community. |
| ROAD OF NO RETURN: THE BANISHMENT OF MARIA DE LAS MERCEDES BARBUDO This short drama portrays the efforts of a young woman photographer to uncover the fragmentary and little-known history of an early nineteenth-century Puerto Rican feminist and political activist who was deported for her nationalist beliefs by the Spanish colonial government of the era. |
| THE ROAD OF WOMEN The voices of women prisoners take us on a journey to Northern Ireland, a journey into and out of prison, a journey of personal and political struggle and growth. |
SARI'S MOTHER From the director of Iraq in Fragments, winner of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, this short powerful documentary follows an Iraqi mother struggling under U.S. occupation to care for her 10-year-old son, who is dying of AIDS. |
| THE SEAGULL'S LAUGHTER A story of love and murder in a remote Icelandic fishing village, The Seagull’s Laughter is a delicious dark comedy about a woman’s place in the days before feminism. |
| SEE ME: FIVE YOUNG LATINAS Five teen-aged Latinas living in San Francisco's Mission District-most of them recent immigrants from Mexico or other Central American countries-talk frankly about their lives, from discrimination and school , to friends and family relationships, experiences with gang activity and violence, and plans for the future. |
| SEED OF SARAH This stylized collage of song and remembrance, based on the highly-acclaimed memoirs of Judith Magyar Isaacson, recounts the real-life story of a young Hungarian girl growing up during the tumultuous years of WWII and the Holocaust. |
| SEEN BUT NOT HEARD This video follows the lives of four Mexican women and their families whose undocumented husbands and partners, as workers at the World Trade Center, lost their lives in the tragic events of 9/11. |
LA SEÑORA EVA PERON This historical documentary, filmed in Argentina, chronicles the life of Eva Peron (1919-1952) through a wealth of archival footage, rare photos, and interviews with many of her colleagues, closest confidants, and contemporary political leaders. |
| SEX IN A COLD CLIMATE This historical documentary is a deeply disturbing portrait of Magdalene Asylums run by Catholic nuns in Ireland. For over a hundred years girls and young women were sent to live and work in the Magdalene Asylums’ Laundries after they’d had sexual or 'sinful' contact with men. |
SHEPHERD'S PIE AND SUSHI In 1993, Mieko Ouchi, a half-white, half-Japanese actress, began researching a documentary about her Japanese immigrant grandfather. |
| SIMPLEMENTE JENNY Examines women in Latin America and the cultural values that shape their lives. Scenes of urban slums, abandoned children, reform schools and broken homes are juxtaposed against romanticized media images. |
| SING! HEALING, COMMUNITY, CELEBRATION This documentary profiles three women who are reviving a musical legacy, a birthright, which so many of have lost the simple act of singing. |
| SISTERHOOD ALIVE AND WELL This video documents the Million Woman March in Philadelphia on October 25, 1997, when black women from all over America gathered to demonstrate their concerns for Black America and to express their sense of unity as a movement that can play an influential role in American society. |
| SONIA A magical portrait of Russia's revolutionary artistic avant-garde - Mayakovsky, Voloshin, Blok, Malevich, Tatlin - through the life of Sonia Dymshitz-Tolstaya, an impassioned artist whose life reflected the social upheavals of her time. She was one of the few Jewish women who became part of this inner circle. |
| STAND UP FOR CHOICE: ESCORTS This remarkable, three-part video series thrusts viewers into the front lines of the struggle over abortion rights between members of Operation Rescue, pro-choice demonstrators, clinic staff and patients. |
| STILETTO This video examines the high-heeled pump and why so many women continue, despite the physical discomfort and damage, to wear these outrageous shoes. |
STITCHING OUR FUTURE This poignant and inspiring documentary tells the story of Coopa-Roca, a cooperative of seamstresses in a shantytown in Rio de Janeiro who, in an effort to provide an income for their families, design and manufacture women’s clothing and accessories. |
| STRIPPED AND TEASED: TALES FROM LAS VEGAS WOMEN This video goes behind the Showgirls mythos to tell the true story of real women who live and work in Las Vegas, the mothers, maids, wives, casino executives and showgirls, who struggle against the sex-object stereotype. |
| SUDDEN CHANGES: POST HYSTERECTOMY SYNDROME Examines the reasons for the high number of hysterectomies performed on women every year, the alternatives available, the side effects and after-effects. Includes interviews with doctors, other professionals, and women who have undergone the operation. |
| SURVIVORS This inspirational video features testimony from a wide variety of rape survivors who explain how their lives were affected by the experience, how they have overcome their previous sense of isolation by discussing their feelings with other women, the emotional healing process they have gone through as well as the emotional burden they still carry. |
A TALE OF TWO TEENS The AIDS pandemic in Africa as seen through the eyes of two young girls, an American and South African teenager, featuring the music of the Dave Matthews Band and U2. |
TALKING TO WISE WOMEN Talking to Wise Women is an award-winning video that creates a remote dialogue between a group of teenage girls and a selected group of older "wise women.” |
TEA PARTY ETIQUETTE This video is based on the life of Boston shoemaker George Robert Twelves and reveals how working people helped make the American Revolution. |
| TEEN MOTHERS A stark and honest look at the explosion of teen pregnancy in Brazil, Teen Mothers is an award-winning documentary that follows four young girls, aged 13 to 15, through the course of their pregnancies and into the early days of motherhood. |
| TEENAGE MOTHERS: A GLOBAL CRISIS Examines the worldwide crisis in teenage pregnancies through four case studies of teenage mothers in Ghana, England, Cuba, and the U.S., thereby providing a cross-cultural survey of the underlying reasons for the increasing rate of adolescent pregnancies and also discussing the hazards to the health and well-being of such young mothers. |
| THESE SHOES WEREN'T MADE FOR WALKING Filmmaker Paul Lee explores the lives of four generations of Chinese women in his family, using their shoes-from the four-inch silk sandals made for his great- grandmother's bound feet during the Ching Dynasty to the Italian leather pumps of his career-minded sister-as a reference point for the cultural and social forces which have shaped their lives. |
| THIN ICE Forget the NHL! Real stories of triumph and determination are being played out on a makeshift ice rink in India. Thin Ice is the inspiring story of a group of young girls who broke gender and religious barriers to compete in the national ice hockey tournament. |
| THROUGH THE WIRE Reveals the shocking conditions at the Female High Security Unit at the federal prison in Lexington, Kentucky, where three women political prisoners, currently serving sentences ranging from thirty-five to fifty-eight years in solitary confinement, have been subjected to psychological experimentation and other forms of cruel and unusual punishment. |
TOO MUCH, TOO SOON Profiles Sue Ann McKean, one of the most charismatic personalities involved in women's bodybuilding, who sees herself not as an athlete but as an artist. |
TROKOSI: WIFE OF THE GODS Examines the West African religious institution of trokosi, where young women are chosen to serve an indefinite period of servitude for crimes committed long ago by their grandparents and even great-grandparents. |
TWO BELLS / TWO WORLDS As an outgrowth of the Spanish-American War, in 1899 the U.S. attempted to annex the Philippine Islands, which led to a decade-long war against the Filipino people, a conflict that has been called 'our first Vietnam.' |
| THE ULTIMATE TEST ANIMAL Examines the birth control injection Depo Provera and the international controversy over its use, raising disturbing questions about racism and sexism in health care, population control vs. birth control, and how drugs are tested and marketed. |
THE UNAPOLOGETIC LIFE OF MARGARET RANDALL This portrait of Margaret Randall—activist, poet, writer, teacher and photographer—comes at a particularly appropriate time, as patriotism is being equated in some quarters with keeping silent about important issues. |
| UNDER FIRE Under Fire captures powerful first-person accounts by five decorated Soviet women as they describe stepping into a man’s world and fighting amid blood and death. |
UP SOUTH This video tells the vivid tale of the African-American exodus from the rural South to northern industrial cities during World War One. |
| VI: PORTRAIT OF A SILENT STAR A documentary portrait of American silent screen star Viola Dana who began her career with the Edison Company in 1910 and starred in more than 100 productions before her retirement in 1929. |
| THROUGH YOUNG PEOPLE'S EYES An insightful documentary portrait of young black and Hispanic teenagers, primarily girls, growing up in a poor urban neighborhood. |
WE DIG COAL Examines the situation of women coal miners in the U.S., their struggle to be hired, their day-to-day lives in the mines, the economic necessity that first made them seek work as miners, and the opposition they face from their families, the community and their male coworkers. |
WHO BUILT AMERICA? (Series) This ten-part series on nineteenth and twentieth-century American history uses period graphics and innovative computer animation to make history accessible and exciting for high school, college and adult education students. |
WITHOUT FEAR OF BEING HAPPY Profiles the Workers Party (PT) in Brazil, the largest left-wing political party in the world today, and the most important political opposition to emerge in Brazil since the formal return to democratic rule in 1985. |
WOMEN IN BLACK (by Donna Baillie) This video documents the activities of Women in Black, a multinational organization that holds vigils for peace around the world, focusing on their efforts to promote a peaceful resolution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. |
| WOMEN IN BLACK (by Claudia Sherwood) Two prominent playwrights whose past works have reflected their Catholic school experiences, Chris Durang and Albert Innaurato, are featured, as well as a contemporary nun, a former nun and brother, and a psychologist/author whose primary study is school punishment in America. |
WOMEN OF COURAGE: UNTOLD STORIES OF WWII The Women of Courage is a five part series based on true, untold stories of remarkable and courageous women who served in the Second World War. |
WOMEN OF COURAGE: Nurses On The Battlefield The Women of Courage is a five part series based on true, untold stories of remarkable and courageous women who served in the Second World War. |
WOMEN OF COURAGE: Eyewitness To War The Women of Courage is a five part series based on true, untold stories of remarkable and courageous women who served in the Second World War. |
WOMEN OF COURAGE: Rescue From Sumatra The Women of Courage is a five part series based on true, untold stories of remarkable and courageous women who served in the Second World War. |
WOMEN OF COURAGE: Showtime At The Front The Women of Courage is a five part series based on true, untold stories of remarkable and courageous women who served in the Second World War. |
WOMEN OF COURAGE: A Time For Courage The Women of Courage is a five part series based on true, untold stories of remarkable and courageous women who served in the Second World War. |
WOMEN OF VIEQUES This video shows the involvement of Puerto Rican women in the continuing protest movement against U.S. Navy use of the island of Vieques as a military training site. |
| WOMEN OF VISION: 18 HISTORIES IN FEMINIST FILM AND VIDEO Profiles a variety of women active in independent-feminist film and video, including production, distribution and education, whose work expresses a variety of political and esthetic viewpoints. |
| WOMAN OF THE WOLF This fairy-tale-like drama, based on a 1904 short story by American poet and feminist author Rene Vivien, tells two opposing versions of the same narrative: one told verbally by Pierre Lenoir, a male narrator at a Victorian dinner party; the other told visually through the behavior of a woman who meets him on a fantasy cargo boat. |
WOMEN ON PATROL This gripping documentary follows the two women, from the capital of the Dili to remote villages, chronicling the aftermath of the atrocities that haunt East Timor . Combining intimate interviews, up-close footage and diary cams, Women on Patrol, is a riveting look at the rebuilding of a nation, and how the experience profoundly transforms these women –as police officers and as humans. |
ZANDILE: IN THE LIGHT OF UBUNTU Examines the social and political struggle of South Africa's black community today, when they must deal with the after-effects of decades of apartheid rule. |