Women S Rights Movies

In an America where more and more women and trans people are losing legal bodily autonomy, the history of Bill Baird’s long fight for...

Two Syrian refugee girls document each others' attempts at making their first films.

Confronted with trauma, women contain, compartmentalize, distract, and ultimately carry on— lessons learned from a society of partially blind...

An exploration of the early public debate surrounding birth control, the media's involvement, and the unstoppable Margaret Sanger, in a style...

Short film against the oppression of women. At first, differences in education are presented and then how the relationship between women and men...

Kismateen, a 24-year-old brass band player in Old Delhi, tries to find his smile back with dental implants after being forcefully separated from the...

A female ultra runner struggles to finish a 100-mile ultramarathon race when her troubled past puts her extraordinary willpower to the test. Ultra...

The daughters of Title IX discover that pervasive gender-based stereotypes and discrimination persist within the high stakes professional world of...

The women of Ghana have a reputation for independence. They, rather than the men, sit enthroned at the market stalls and run a large proportion of...

A salute to women in history who have used their bodies in protest when they haven’t been permitted to use their voices, this film reflects...

In this documentary by Coline Serreau, known for her feature film Why Not?, a selection of Frenchwomen in characteristically no-win situations...

Two women rebel against the traditions of a village society.

A young girl is admitted to a hospital where she is informed of her eligibility for state service. A protracted war has resulted in a demographic...

WOMaN is a visual exploration of the becoming and realizing of what it means to be a woman in this day and age. An experimental film told from the...

Half a million wives work with their husbands in family-run businesses, but most have no legal title to any part of the operation. This documentary...

Women talk about the circumstances that drove them to seek illegal abortions and the often traumatic result. Interwoven with historical photographs...

María and Isabel are two women in their fifties who, like many others, recycle in Quito, where there is no recycling system. María...