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Showing 1 - 10 of 77 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is Women's History
Abortion: Add to Cart
With increasing burdens on clinics, activists are combining the power of abortion pills and the internet to provide self-managed abortions in a revolutionary way
GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 35 minutes
Ama
The untold story of the involuntary sterilization of Native American women by the Indian Health Service well into the 1970s.
Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 74 minutes
Annah La Javanaise
An animated reimagining of the life of Annah, a 13-year-old Javanese girl brought to France in 1893 to serve as a maid and model to the famous painter Paul Gauguin.
Women Make Movies | 2020 | 6 minutes
The Archivettes
For more than 40 years, the Lesbian Herstory Archives has combated lesbian invisibility by literally rescuing history from the trash.
Women Make Movies | 2018 | 61 minutes
Belly of the Beast
Filmed over seven years with extraordinary access and intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated people, this Emmy-winning documentary exposes a pattern of illegal sterilizations, modern-day eugenics and reproductive injustice in California prisons.
Women Make Movies | 2020 | 81 minutes
Blessed Is the Match
The story of Hannah Senesh, a Hungarian poet who was captured by the Nazis while trying to rescue Jews in Hungary, including her mother
GOOD DOCS | 2008 | 78 minutes
Blurring the Color Line (77 min)
Stories of Chinese families in the Black South during Jim Crow disrupt the black and white narrative of America's racial history
GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 77 minutes
Catching Sight of Thelma and Louise
Explores the same women's and men's reactions to the groundbreaking film, THELMA and LOUISE, 25 years ago and today.
Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 86 minutes
The Chicago Maternity Center Story
The struggle to keep the Chicago Maternity Center open after 75 years.
Kartemquin Films | 1976 | 60 minutes
Chicana
Over a collage of artworks, photographs, and documentary footage, Carmen Zapata and an array of Chicana activists narrate the history of struggles faced by Mexican and Mexican-American women from the pre-Columbian era to the present day.
Women Make Movies | 1979 | 23 minutes
