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Showing 1 - 10 of 78 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is Women's History
Abortion and Women's Rights 1970
This is the first film ever made about the struggle for abortion rights in the U.S.
Women Make Movies | 2022 | 28 minutes
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
