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Showing 1 - 10 of 118 titles with a criteria of 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

Althea

Pioneering athlete Althea Gibson broke records on and off the tennis court.

Icarus Films | 2014 | 83 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

Bad Reputation

At the age of 45, sex worker and activist Karina begins to imagine working in another field and attempts to organize her colleagues for their labor rights.

EPF Media | 2024 | 78 minutes

Behind the Rage

Emmy-winning filmmaker Deeyah Khan explores male violence against the women they claim to love – and asks if, behind the rage, rehabilitation and change is possible.

Women Make Movies | 2022 | 70 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 (53 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 | 53 minutes