Access Denied
A film by ReproVision, 1991, 28 min., Color
This empowering videotape addresses cutbacks in women's reproductive freedom and civil rights against the backdrop of Operation Rescue's religious ant...

Acting Our Age: A film About Women Growing Old
A film by Michal Aviad, 1987, 58 min., Color
An invigorating antidote for American culture's one-dimensional image of older women, this classic film offers empowering insights about women and agi...

¡Adelante Mujeres!
A film by the National Women's History Project, 1992, 30 min., Color
Spanning five centuries, this comprehensive video, produced by the National Women's History Project, focuses exclusively on the history of Mexican-Ame...

Adio Kerida (Goodbye Dear Love)
A film by Ruth Behar, 2002, 82 min., Color
Distinguished Anthropologist Ruth Behar (recipient of the McArthur Fellowship) returns to her native Cuba to profile the island’s remaining Sephardic ...

Adynata
A film by Leslie Thornton, 1983, 30 min., Color
A formal 1861 portrait of a Chinese Mandarin and his wife is the starting point for this allegorical investigation of the fantasies spawned in the Wes...

Afghanistan Unveiled
A film by Brigitte Brault & Aina Women Filming Group, 2003, 52 min., Color
Filmed by the first ever team of women video journalists trained in Afghanistan, this rare and uncompromising film explores the effects of the Taliban...

Afghanistan: The Lost Truth
A film by Yassamin Maleknasr, 2003, 64 min., Color
Iranian filmmaker Yassamin Maleknasr takes an unprecedented journey across Afghanistan from Herat to Balkh, becoming the only woman and filmmaker to h...

Africa Rising
A film by Paula Heredia, 2009, 62 min., Color
Every day, six thousand girls from the Horn of Africa to the sub-Saharan nations are subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM). With little more th...

Africa, Africas
A 3-part film series by Agnes Ndibi, Maji-da Abdi and Fanta Regina Nacro, 2001, 62 min., Color
A rare collection from the emerging voices of African documentary filmmaking, this unique series daringly explores the social and cultural realities e...

After Hours
A film by Jane Campion, 1984, 26 min., Color
A confronting and realistic short drama by Academy Award-winning director, Jane Campion, about sexual harassment in the office. A young office worker...

After the Earthquake
A film by Lourdes Portillo, 1979, 23 min., BW
This dramatic story follows a young Nicaraguan immigrant, Irene, as she faces the challenges of life in the U.S. and re-evaluates her relationships wi...

After the Montreal Massacre
A film by Gerry Rogers, 1990, 27 min., Color
On December 6, 1989, a gunman entered the engineering building at the University of Montreal and killed fourteen women. This forceful, moving document...

Age 12
A film by Jennifer Montgomery, 1990, 22 min., Color
Unforgettable in its vivid construction of lesbian identity, AGE 12 is a riveting amalgam of forbidden desire, transgression and piercing self-recogni...

Al’leessi...An African Actress
A film by Rahmatou Keita, 2004, 69 min., Color/BW
Zalika Souley is in her fifties. She lives with four children in a two-bedroom apartment with neither electricity nor water in Niamey, the capital of ...

Algeria: Women At War
A film produced by Parminder Vir, 1992, 52 min., Color
ALGERIA: WOMEN AT WAR offers a rare insight into the key role Algerian women played in their country’s liberation struggle from the French thirty year...

All Water Has a Perfect Memory
A film by Natalia Almada, 2001, 19 min., Color/BW
ALL WATER HAS A PERFECT MEMORY is a poignant experimental documentary that explores the effects of tragedy and remembrance on a bi-cultural family. A...

Amazon Sisters
A film by Anne-Marie Sweeney, 1992, 60 min., Color
AMAZON SISTERS portrays the vision and strength of women surviving in the hotly contested Amazon rainforests. While international attention has focus...

Amazonia
A film by Nandini Sikand, 2001, 8 min., Color/BW
In this highly personal and visually evocative testimonial, critically acclaimed South Asian filmmaker Nandini Sikand poignantly presents her sister’s...

Amy! and Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti
Two films by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, Color/BW
WMM is pleased to release two early works by renowned film scholar Laura Mulvey, co-written and co-directed with Peter Wollen. Mulvey came to prominen...

An Island Surrounded by Water
A film by Maria Novaro, 1985, 25 min., Color
A beautiful and poetic account of a young girl's search for her mother, who left mysteriously to join a guerilla movement. The narrative combines her...

Ana Mendieta
A film by Kate Horsfield, Nereyda Garcia-Ferraz, and Branda Miller, 1987, 52 min., Color/BW
This beautiful video is a portrait of the life and work of Cuban-born American artist Ana Mendieta. Mendieta used her own body, the raw materials of n...

And Still I Rise
A film by Ngozi Onwurah, 1993, 30 min., Color
Inspired by a poem by Maya Angelou, this powerful film explores images of Black women in the media, focusing on the myths surrounding Black women's se...

...And Woman Wove It in a Basket
A film by Bushra Azzouz, Marlene Farnum, and Nettie Kuneki, 1989, 70 min., Color
For the Klickitat Indians in Oregon, basketweaving is a way of reclaiming native forms and heritage. This evocative portrayal of basketweaver Nettie ...

Angola Is Our Country
A film by Jenny Morgan, 1988, 45 min., Color
Angolan women are rarely heard describing the impact of South Africa’s undeclared war against their country. This moving documentary, produced in conj...

Anna from Benin
A film by Monique Mbeka Phoba, 2000, 45 min., Color
ANNA FROM BENIN is an extraordinary portrait of an extraordinary 17th year old. Anna is one of 31 children that her father has had with his 5 wives. ...

Arresting Ana
A film by Lucie Schwartz, 2009, 25 min., Color
Sarah is a French college student who runs a “pro-Ana” blog, part of a global online community of young women sharing tips on living with anorexia. Va...

Artist
A film collaboration between Tracey Moffatt and Gary Hillberg, 1999, 10 min., Color
Internationally acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Tracey Moffatt takes the viewer on a fast-paced journey through Hollywood's depiction of the arti...

Artist on Fire
A film by Kay Armatage, 1987, 54 min., Color
A pioneer of feminist avant-garde cinema, Joyce Wieland has explored the crux of nationalism, feminine sexuality and ecology for more than thirty year...

ARUSI Persian Wedding
A film by Marjan Tehrani, 2008, 63 min., Color
For filmmaker Marjan Tehrani and her brother Alex, growing up Iranian-American has always meant being caught between two worlds. With unique perspecti...

As I Remember It
A film by Salem Mekuria, 1991, 56 min., Color
This intimate portrait of writer Dorothy West explores the forgotten role of women in the Harlem Renaissance. From the perspective of her 83 years, th...

As the Mirror Burns
A film by Di Bretherton and Cristina Pozzan, 1990, 58 min., Color
Most representations of the Vietnam War show women as innocent by-standers who sometimes became caught up in the conflict but who were otherwise uninv...

The Audition
A film by Anna Campion, 1990, 24 min., Color
The filmmaker's sister, Jane Campion, journeys home to New Zealand to audition her onetime actress mother for a small role as a schoolteacher in her f...

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B.D. Women
A film by Inge Blackman, 1994, 20 min., Color
B.D. WOMEN is a wonderful celebration of the history and culture of Black lesbians. Lively interviews feature Black women talking candidly about thei...

The Basement Girl
A film by Midi Onodera, 2000, 12 min., Color
Abandoned by her lover, a young woman finds comfort and safety in her basement apartment. Mundane routines, a diet of junk food and the warmth of the...

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
A film by LisaGay Hamilton, Produced by Neda Armian, Jonathan Demme, LisaGay Hamilton, and Joe Viola, 2003, 90 min., Color/BW
BEAH: A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS, the directorial debut of actress LisaGay Hamilton, celebrates the life of legendary African American actress, poet and pol...

Bedevil
A film by Tracey Moffatt, 1993, 90 min., Color
BEDEVIL is the stunning debut feature from Tracey Moffatt (NIGHT CRIES, NICE COLORED GIRLS) and the first feature directed by an Australian Aboriginal...

Beirut: The Last Home Movie
A film by Jennifer Fox, 1988, 120 min., Color
BEIRUT: THE LAST HOME MOVIE is an imaginative film which challenges documentary form and concepts of reality by exposing a personal response to a glob...

Belfast Girls
A film by Malin Andersson, 2006, 58 min., Color
BELFAST GIRLS is a quiet, powerful story of two young women growing up in a city where neighbors are cut off from each other by permanent concrete and...

Between the Lines:
A film by Yunah Hong, 2001, 60 min., Color
BETWEEN THE LINES offers rare interviews with over 15 major Asian-Pacific American women poets. Organized in interwoven sections such as Immigration, ...

Beyond Beijing
A film by Shirini Heerah and Enrique Berrios, 1996, 42 min., Color
The 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women and the parallel Forum (NGO) that took place in Beijing assembled the largest global gatherin...

Beyond Black and White
A film by Nisma Zaman, 1994, 28 min., Color
BEYOND BLACK AND WHITE is a personal exploration of the filmmaker’s bicultural heritage (Caucasian and Asian/Begali) in which she relates her experien...

Beyond Imagining
A film by Wendy Weinberg, 1991, 30 min., Color
Bold literary visionary Margaret Anderson founded the journal Little Review in 1914, an overlooked but profound influence on American literature. Ande...

Beyond Voluntary Control
A film by Cathy Cook, 2000, 30 min., Color
Acclaimed filmmaker Cathy Cook (THE MATCH THAT STARTED MY FIRE) breaks new cinematic territory by devising a new visual language that explores the psy...

Bhangra Jig
A film by Pratibha Parmar, 4 min.
A vibrant short video about how young Asian people in Scotland celebrate desire and self-pride through dance and music....

Black and White
A film by Kirsty MacDonald, 2006, 17 min., Color
BLACK AND WHITE shines a sensitive light on a subject that is too often either shunned or sensationalized: the experiences of intersex people (sometim...

Black Kites
A film by Jo Andres, 1996, 26 min., Color
Based on 1992 journals of Bosnian visual artist Alma Hajric who was forced into a basement shelter to survive the siege of Sarajevo, BLACK KITES is th...

Black Sheep
A film by Louise Glover and Chili Films, 1999, 26 min., Color
Lou Glover grew up in New South Wales repeating the same homophobic and racist taunts she heard around her. Though she was raised in a white family, s...

Black Women of Brazil
Directed by Silvana Afram, 1986, 25 min., Color
Despite official jargon to the contrary, Brazilians live in a racially segregated class system. This upbeat, sensitive and elegantly composed document...

Black Women On: The Light, Dark Thang
A film by Celeste Crenshaw and Paula Caffey, 1999, 52 min., Color
BLACK WOMEN ON: THE LIGHT, DARK THANG explores the politics of color within the African-American community. Women representing a variety of hues--fro...

Black, Bold and Beautiful: Black Women's Hair
Directed by Nadine Valcin and Produced by Jennifer Kawaja and Julia Sereny, 1999, 40 min., Color
Afros, braids or corn rows--hairstyles have always carried a social message, and few issues cause as many battles between black parents and their daug...

Blind Spot: Murder by Women
A film by Irving Saraf, Allie Light and Julia Hilder, 2000, 87 min., Color
Because murder by women is still relatively rare--only one out of eight murders in the United States is committed by a woman--women's own stories prov...

The Blonds
A film by Albertina Carri, Produced by Barry Ellsworth, 2003, 89 min., Color/BW
Albertina Carri’s second feature is a look at Argentina’s recent history from the perspective of a generation forced to mourn those of whom they have ...

Bloodlines
A film by Cynthia Connop, 2008, 52 min., Color
Bettina Goering, grandniece of Herman Goering, has long tried to bury the dark legacy of her family history. Painter Ruth Rich, a daughter of Holocaus...

The Body Beautiful
A film by Ngozi Onwurah, 1991, 23 min., Color
This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals t...

The Body of a Poet
A film by Sonali Fernando, 1995, 29 min., Color
An imaginary biopic, THE BODY OF A POET centers on the efforts of a group of young lesbians of color to devise a fitting tribute to one of this centu...

Boy I Am
A film by Sam Feder & Julie Hollar, 2006, 72 min., Color
An important exploration of issues rarely touched upon by most films portraying female-to-male (FTM) transgender experiences, this feature-length docu...

A Boy Named Sue
A film by Julie Wyman, 2000, 56 min., Color
Julie Wyman's compelling documentary chronicles the transformation of a transsexual named Theo from a woman to a man over the course of six years. The...

Breaking the Rule of Thumb
A film by Andrea K. Elovson, 1997, 35 min., Color
Combining powerful interviews with documentary footage, this timely and compelling videotape takes a comprehensive look at the issues still confrontin...

Brincando El Charco
A film by Frances Negrón-Muntaner, 1994, 55 min., Color/BW
Refreshingly sophisticated in both form and content, BRINCANDO EL CHARCO contemplates the notion of “identity” through the experiences of a Puerto Ric...

Bringing It All Back Home
A Sheffield Film Coop Production
Directed by Chrissie Stansfield, 1987, 48 min., Color
This fascinating documentary analyzes how the patterns of international capital investment and the exploitation of Third World women workers in free t...

Bullets for Breakfast
A film by Holly Fisher, 1992, 77 min., Color
BULLETS FOR BREAKFAST is a sublime essay film which sits at the frontier of its genre. Holly Fisher describes the film as “a Western filtered through...

Buoyant
A film by Julie Wyman, 2004, 28 min., Color/BW
Julie Wyman’s ebullient experimental documentary intertwines the story of the Padded Lilies, a troupe of fat synchronized swimmers, Archimedes, the Gr...

...But Then, She's Betty Carter
A film by Michelle Parkerson, 1980, 53 min., Color
This lively film is an unforgettable portrait of legendary vocalist Betty Carter, one of the greatest living exponents of jazz. Uncompromised by comme...

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Calling the Ghosts
Executive Producer: Julia Ormond
Directed by Mandy Jacobson and Karmen Jelincic, 1996, 63 min., Color
An extraordinarily powerful documentary, CALLING THE GHOSTS is the first-person account of two women caught in a war where rape was as much an everyda...

Came Out, It Rained, Went Back In Again
A film by Betsan Evans Morris, 1991, 10 min., Color/BW
A delightful short drama,CAME OUT, IT RAINED, WENT BACK IN AGAIN explores the perils of “coming out” as it follows the day in the life of one young gi...

Cancer in Two Voices
A film by Lucy Massie Phenix based on original films by Ann Hershey, 1994, 43 min., Color
“I’m the first among our friends to have cancer... Many will see their future in the way I handle mine,” Barbara Rosenblum wrote after learning she ha...

Can't You Take a Joke?
A film by Viki Dun, 1989, 26 min., BW
Can you fall in love and still have a sense of humor? This delightful, stylish comedy, in which boy meets boy and girl meets girl, uses the romantic m...

Canto a la Vida
A film by Lucia Salinas Briones, 1990, 48 min., Color
CANTO A LA VIDA illuminates exile through the remarkable stories of Chilean women, including the assassinated president’s widow Hortensia de Allende, ...

Carmen Miranda: Bananas is My Business
A film by Helena Solberg and David Meyer, 1995, 92 min., Color
This fascinating film skillfully combines reenactments, interviews with confidants and commentators, and footage from her many films to tell the haunt...

Carry Greenham Home
A film by Beeban Kidron and Amanda Richardson, 1984, 66 min., Color
An extraordinary record of daily life at the women's peace encampment at Greenham Common in England. Kidron went on to direct ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY...

Chicana
A film by Sylvia Morales, 1979, 23 min., Color
CHICANA traces the history of Chicana and Mexican women from pre-Columbian times to the present. It covers women's role in Aztec society, their partic...

Children of the Crocodile
A film by Marsha Emerman, 2001, 52 min., Color
This documentary tells the story of two young Timorese-Australian activists – one a high profile human rights worker, the other a performance artist a...

The Children We Sacrifice
A film by Grace Poore, 2000, 61 min., Color
Shot in India, Sri Lanka, Canada and the United States, and screened in 18 countries, this evocative, visually powerful documentary is about incestuou...

Choice Thoughts
A film by Jacqueline Frank, 1996, 10 min., Color
In a witty mix of rare archival footage and sound bites from religious and political leaders, filmmaker Jacqueline Frank takes a fast-paced look at 10...

The Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash
A film by Yvonne Welbon, 1992, 27 min., Color
From her innovative short works to her critically acclaimed feature debut DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST, the films of Julie Dash have broken new cinematic gro...

Closer
Directed by Tina Gharavi, 2000, 24 min., Color
An experimental documentary which has at its heart a poignant character study of a 17 year-old lesbian living in Newcastle, England, CLOSER innovative...

Club Native
A film by Tracey Deer, Produced by National Film Board of Canada, 2008, 78 min., Color
In Kahnawake, the hometown of Mohawk director Tracey Deer (Mohawk Girls), there are two unspoken rules: Don’t marry a non-Native, and never, ever have...

Coffee Colored Children
A film by Ngozi Onwurah, 1988, 15 min., Color/BW
This lyrical, unsettling film conveys the experience of children of mixed racial heritage. Suffering the aggression of racial harassment, a young girl...

Color Schemes
A film by Shu Lea Cheang, 1989, 28 min., Color
An upbeat, ironic look at America’s multicultural society, COLOR SCHEMES uses the metaphor of “color wash” to tackle conceptions of racial assimilatio...

Columbus on Trial
A film by Lourdes Portillo, 1993, 18 min., Color
Inspired by the controversy surrounding the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' "discovery" of America, Portillo has fashioned a fanciful versi...

Compensation
A film by Zeinabu Irene Davis, 1999, 92 min., BW
COMPENSATION the first feature by award-winning filmmaker Zeinabu irene Davis (Cycles and A Powerful Thang), presents two unique African-American lov...

Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
A film by Deborah Hoffmann, 1994, 44 min., Color
With profound insight and a healthy dose of levity, COMPLAINTS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER chronicles the various stages of a mother's Alzheimer's Disease a...

Conjure Women
A film by Demetria Royals
Produced by Louise Diamond, 1995, 85 min., Color/BW
CONJURE WOMEN is an exciting performance-based documentary exploring the artistry and philosophy of four African American female artists. Celebrated ...

Conversations Across the Bosphorous
A film by Jeanne C. Finley
in collaboration with Mine Y. Ternar, Gokcen Hava Art, and Pelin Esmer, 1995, 42 min., Color
CONVERSATIONS ACROSS THE BOSPHOROUS intertwines the stories of two Muslim women from Istanbul - Gokcen, from an orthodox Islamic family who takes off ...

CORPUS: A Home Movie for Selena
A film by Lourdes Portillo, 1999, 47 min., Color
This classic rerelease from award-winning filmmaker Lourdes Portillo (Señorita Extraviada, Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo ) is a complex tri...

Countdown
A film by Ulrike Ottinger, 1991, 189 min., Color
From one of Berlin’s leading directors comes COUNTDOWN, a fascinating chronicle of the divided Germany’s final days. Ulrike Ottinger’s documentary sh...

Courting Justice
A film created by Ruth Cowan, Directed by Jane Thandi Lipman, 2008, 54 min., Color
From tyranny to democracy. Fourteen years after the defeat of apartheid, South Africa’s fledgling democracy is acclaimed for its constitutional promis...

Cover Girl Culture
A film by Nicole Clark, 2009, 80 min., Color
Being thin, pretty and sexy brings happiness. Style over substance. Young girls receive these messages hundreds of times each day. But who sets these ...

Covered: The Hejab in Cairo, Egypt
A film by Tania Kamal-Eldin, 1995, 25 min., Color
Just over a decade ago it was hard to find women on the streets of Cairo who veiled, a custom that their forebears struggled to overthrow at the begin...

Cycles
A film by Zeinabu Irene Davis, 1989, 17 min., BW
Rasheeda Allen is waiting for her period, a state of anticipation familiar to all women. Drawing on Caribbean folklore, this exuberant experimental dr...

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Daring to Resist: Three Women Face the Holocaust
A film by Martha Goell Lubell and Barbara Attie, 1999, 57 min., Color
Why would a young person choose resistance rather than submission during Hitler's reign of terror while her world was collapsing around her? In this ...

Daughter Rite
A film by Michelle Citron, 1979, 53 min., Color
"Daughter Rite is a classic, the missing link between the 'direct Cinema' documentaries and the later hybrids that acknowledged truth couldn't always ...

Daughters of War
A film by Maria Barea, 1998, 30 min., Color
How does a 17 year old mother and leader of a girl gang survive in a region where violence and abuse has become the norm? In DAUGHTERS OF WAR, Peruvia...

The Day I Will Never Forget
A film by Kim Longinotto, 2002, 92 min., Color
THE DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET is a gripping feature documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Kim Longinotto that examines the practice of female genital mutil...

The Day You Love Me
A film by Florence Jaugey, 1999, 61 min., Color
A close-up look at the varieties and complexities of domestic violence, THE DAY YOU LOVE ME takes us into the daily life of policewomen and social wor...

Delirium
A film by Mindy Faber, 1993, 23 min., Color
Taking her mother's mental illness as its point of departure, Mindy Faber's DELIRIUM exposes the historical relationship between women and madness wit...

The Films of Maya Deren
A compilation of films by Maya Deren, 1959, 76 min., BW
Maya Deren's fascinating and beautiful films are masterpieces of their era and provide an important insight into the history of the avant-garde. MESH...

The Desert Is No Lady
A film by Shelley Williams in collaboration with Susan Palmer, 1995, 45 min., Color
With provocative imagery and spirited juxtapositions, THE DESERT IS NO LADY looks at the Southwest through the eyes of its leading contemporary women ...

Desire
A film by Julie Gustafson and Teenage Girls' Documentary Project, 2005, 85 min., Color
Nearly a decade in the making, this refreshingly honest film documents the challenges and desires of a group of young women in New Orleans by letting ...

The Desired Number
A film by Ngozi Onwurah, 1995, 28 min., 1 in series, Color
THE DESIRED NUMBER uses the Ibu Eze ceremony in Nigeria to highlight how family planning issues often conflict with traditional family values. Nigeri...

The Devil Never Sleeps
A film by Lourdes Portillo, 1996, 82 min., Color
Academy Award nominated filmmaker Lourdes Portillo (LAS MADRES: THE MOTHERS OF PLAZA DE MAYO) mines the complicated intersections of analysis and auto...

Dialogues with Madwomen
A film by Allie Light, 1993, 90 min., Color
"I was always so afraid that someone would ask me (where I was when JFK was shot), and I would have to say I was in a mental institution", says direct...

DiAna's Hair Ego:
A film by Ellen Spiro, 1990, 29 min., Color
Realizing the extreme inadequacy of local information on AIDS prevention, cosmetologist DiAna DiAna, with her partner Dr. Bambi Sumpter, took on the t...

A Different Image
A film by Alile Sharon Larkin, 1982, 52 min., Color
A highly-acclaimed film, A DIFFERENT IMAGE is an extraordinary poetic portrait of a beautiful young African American woman attempting to escape becomi...

The Displaced View
A film by Midi Onodera, 1988, 52 min., Color
THE DISPLACED VIEW is a film that movingly depicts the odyssey of an American-born Japanese granddaughter in search of her identity through her grandm...

Divine Horsemen-The Living Gods of Haiti
A film by Maya Deren, 1977, 52 min., BW
A journey into the fascinating world of the Voudoun religion edited from footage shot by Deren in Haiti....

Divorce Iranian Style
A film by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini, 1998, 80 min., Color
Hilarious, tragic, stirring, this fly-on-the-wall look at several weeks in an Iranian divorce court provides a unique window into the intimate circums...

Don't Ask Why
A film by Sabiha Sumar, 1999, 58 min., Color
Anousheh lives with her strict Muslim parents and two brothers in Karachi, Pakistan. At 17, she is at an age where daughters are usually married off. ...

Don't Fence Me In
A film by Nandini Sikand, 1998, 55 min., Color
Against the broader backdrop of modern India's political and social history, this lyrical documentary tells the story of the life of Krishna Sikand, t...

Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun
A film by Pratibha Parmar, 1992, 25 min., Color
A rare and lively examination of disability and homosexuality as it affects both women and men, DOUBLE THE TROUBLE, TWICE THE FUN, advocates for accep...

Dream Girls
A film by Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams, 1993, 50 min., Color
This fascinating documentary, produced for the BBC, opens a door into the spectacular world of the Takarazuka Revue, a highly successful musical theat...

Dreaming Rivers
A Sankofa film directed by Martine Attille, 1988, 30 min., Color
From Sankofa Film and Video comes this bittersweet and nostalgic short drama illustrating the spirit of modern families touched by the experience of m...

Dry Kisses Only
A film by Jane Cottis and Kaucyila Brooke, 1990, 75 min., Color
Through manipulated film clips, the hilarious commentary of Theory Woman and interviews with the Lesbian on the Street, this marvelous videotape explo...

Dry Kisses Only/War on Lesbians
Two films by Jane Cotis and Kaucyila Brooke, 1992, 100 min., 2 in series, Color
Through manipulaed film clips, the hilarious commentary of Theory Woman and interviews with the Lesbian on the Street, DRY KISSES ONLY (1990, 75 mins....

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Eat the Kimono
A film by Claire Hunt and Kim Longinotto, 1989, 60 min., Color
EAT THE KIMONO is a brilliant documentary about Hanayagi Genshu, a Japanese feminist and avant-garde dancer and performer, who has spent her life defy...

The Edge of Each Other's Battles
A film by Jennifer Abod, 2002, 59 min., Color
This powerful documentary is a moving tribute to legendary black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde (1934-1992). One of the most celebrated icons of f...

The Education of Shelby Knox
A film by Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt, 2005, 74 min., Color
Winner of the Sundance Best Cinematography Award and the SXSW Audience Award, WMM is pleased to be finally releasing this fascinating and powerful doc...

El General
A film by Natalia Almada, 2009, 83 min., Color/BW
Past and present collide in this extraordinarily crafted film when filmmaker Natalia Almada (ALL WATER HAS A PERFECT MEMORY), winner of the US Directi...

Ella es el Matador (She is the Matador)
A film by Gemma Cubero and Celeste Carrasco, 2009, 62 min., Color
For Spaniards—and for the world—nothing has expressed the country’s traditionally rigid gender roles more powerfully than the image of the male matado...

Emergence
A film by Pratibha Parmar, 1986, 18 min., Color
Common themes of identity, alienation and herstory in the context of the diasporan experience emerge in this powerful tape. Four Black and Third World...

Emily and Gitta
A film by Tami Gold, 1996, 30 min., Color
Memories of the Holocaust are interlaced with a contemporary love story in this arresting short drama in which history and inescapable repercussions f...

Enemies of Happiness
A film by Eva Mulvad and Anja Al-Erhayem, 2006, 59 min., Color
"In September 2005, Afghanistan held its first parliamentary elections in 35 years. Among the candidates for 249 assembly seats was Malalai Joya, a co...

Escuela
A documentary by Hannah Weyer, 2002, 53 min., Color
There are over 800,000 students enrolled in migrant education programs in the United States and, of those, only 45-50% ever finish high school. ESCUEL...

Eternal Seed
A film by Meera Dewan, 1996, 43 min., Color
With insightful interviews and rare footage from India's agricultural industry, this keenly observed film depicts Indian women's struggles to use trad...

Europlex
A film by Ursula Biemann and Angela Sanders, 2003, 20 min., Color
The fourth in Ursula Biemann's critically acclaimed series of video essays that investigates migration across borders, EUROPLEX, a collaboration with ...

Ever Shot Anyone?
A film by Michal Aviad, 1996, 57 min., Color
Israeli filmmaker Michal Aviad provides a woman's take on how national culture is informed by male identity through the military experience that bonds...

Everyone Their Grain of Sand
A film by Beth Bird, 2005, 87 min., Color
This award-winning documentary reveals the struggles of the citizens of Maclovio Rojas in Tijuana, Mexico as they battle the state government’s attemp...

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The F-Word
A film by Marcia Jarmel and Erin Gallagher, 1994, 10 min., Color
THE F-WORD is a provocative look at the power of the word 'feminism' in the US. Why does it mean so many different things to different people? Pithy...

Far From Home
A film by Rachel Tsutsumi, 2005, 40 min., Color
While busing may be a rapidly fading memory in most American schools, it continues to be a reality for more than 3,000 Boston students every year. FAR...

Far From Poland
A film by Jill Godmilow, 1984, 109 min., Color
When denied visas to shoot in Poland, a filmmaker, steeped in the documentary traditions of the left, decides to construct her film in New York City. ...

The Female Closet
A film by Barbara Hammer, 1998, 60 min., Color
This fascinating videotape from renowned filmmaker Barbara Hammer combines rare footage, interviews, and rich visual documentation to survey the lives...

The Feminist Initiative
A film by Liv Weisberg, 2007, 97 min., Color
The Feminist Initiative reveals the passion, pitfalls and promise of a diverse group of women working to establish the world’s first feminist p...

Ferry Tales
A film by Katja Esson, 2003, 40 min., Color
Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Short, FERRY TALES exposes a secret world that exists in the powder room of the Staten Island Ferry--a plac...

Filming Desire:
A film by Marie Mandy, 2000, 60 min., Color
“In this bold documentary Marie Mandy asks the question: how do women directors film love, desire, and, especially, sexuality? In rare interviews wit...

The Films of Barbara Hammer
Three films by Barbara Hammer, 42 min.
Four classic celebrations of the female body and spirit. DYKETACTICS is a celebration of lesbian sensuality and sexuality; DOUBLE STRENGTH is an expe...

The Films of Jane Campion
Films by Jane Campion, 49 min., Color/BW
The internationally acclaimed director of THE PIANO, AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE and SWEETIE first displayed her visual flair and dark humor in these award-w...

Finding Dawn
A film by Christine Welsh, 2006, 73 min., Color
FINDING DAWN puts a human face on a tragedy that has received precious little attention – and one which is surprisingly similar to the situation in Ci...

Flaming Ears
A film by Angela Hans Scheirl, Ursula Pürrer, and Dietmar Schipek, 1991, 84 min., Color
FLAMING EARS is a pop sci-fi lesbian fantasy feature set in the year 2700 in the fictive burned-out city of Asche. It follows the tangled lives of th...

Flesh and Paper
A film by Pratibha Parmar, 1990, 26 min., Color
FLESH AND PAPER is a lyrical exploration of the sense and sensibilities of Indian lesbian poet and writer, Suniti Bamjoshi. This moving and powerful ...

For a Place Under the Heavens
A film by Sabiha Sumar, 2003, 53 min., Color
Acclaimed director Sabiha Sumar, recent winner of the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival for her feature Silent Waters, offers ...

For My Children
A film by Aviad Michal, 2002, 65 min., Color
In October 2000, as the second Palestinian Intifada erupts, Israeli filmmaker Michal Aviad begins a video exploration about both the moral and mundane...

Four Wives – One Man
A film by Nahid Persson, Produced by Setareh Persson & Nahid Persson, 2007, 76 min., Color
From Nahid Persson, the filmmaker of the award-winning Prostitution Behind the Veil, comes an intimate portrait of a polygamist family in a rur...

Four Women of Egypt
A film by Tahani Rached, 1997, 90 min., Color
Amina Rachid was raised in a non-religious, Westernized, aristocratic household before embracing Socialism and fighting for social justice. Another d...

The Fourth Dimension
A film by Trinh T. Minh-ha
Produced by Jean-Paul Bourdier and Trinh T. Minh-ha, 2001, 87 min., Color
Acclaimed filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha ventures into the digital realm with her stunning new feature, THE FOURTH DIMENSION, an incisive and insightful e...

The Fragile Promise of Choice
Directed by Dorothy Fadiman
Produced by Beth Seltzer, 1996, 57 min., 1 in series, Color
"The World Health Organization estimates that unsafe abortions cause more than 75,000 deaths annually, worldwide. GIRE, a major reproductive rights g...

Freedom Road
A film by Lorna Ann Johnson, 2004, 35 min., Color/BW
FREEDOM ROAD is a barren stretch that leads in and out of the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women. Yet for some of the women incarcerated there...

From Bedside to Bargaining Table
A film by Tami Gold and Lyn Goldfarb, 1984, 20 min.
This inspiring documentary looks at nursing from the nurse's point of view, encouraging healthcare professionals to work together to change their poor...

From Danger to Dignity
A film by Dorothy Fadiman, Daniel Meyers and Beth Seltzer, 1995, 57 min., 2 in series, Color
This eye-opening documentary chronicles the double-pronged movement-the grassroots activism and intensive legislative lobbying- that culminated in Roe...

From Here, From This Side
A film by Gloria Ribe, 1988, 24 min., Color
The relationship between Mexico and its rich neighbor to the north has always been ambiguous. Using mostly stock footage, this collage-like documentar...

From the Back-Alleys to the Supreme Court and Beyond
A 3-part series by Dorothy Fadiman, Daniel Meyers, and Beth Seltzer, 1996, 3 in series, Color
This acclaimed series provides a comprehensive look at abortion in the United States. Combining interviews and archival footage, it covers the movin...

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Gabriela
A film by Trix Betlam, 1988, 67 min., Color
This extraordinary documentary looks at the work of GABRIELA, a mass organization of diverse women’s groups in the Philippines. Founded in 1984 in hon...

Gaea Girls
A film by Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams, 2000, 106 min., Color
"This fascinating film follows the physically grueling and mentally exhausting training regimen of several young wanna-be GAEA GIRLS, a group of Japan...

The Gender Chip Project
A film by Helen De Michiel, 2005, 54 min., Color
Essential viewing for students, educators, counselors, policy makers and parents, THE GENDER CHIP PROJECT is being hailed as an important resource for...

Georgie Girl
A documentary by Annie Goldson and Peter Wells, 2001, 70 min., Color/BW
Meet Georgina Beyer, the latest “it” girl of New Zealand politics. A one-time sex worker of Maori descent turned public official, Georgina stunned th...

The Germans and Their Men
A film by Helke Sander, 1989, 96 min., Color
"If a woman doesn't have equal rights, is she equally responsible for the crimes of a nation?" Helke Sander's quasi-documentary turns a wry and reveal...

Girl Inside
A film by Maya Gallus. Produced by Justine Pimlott and Maya Gallus, 2007, 70 min., Color
Following 26-year-old Madison during a crucial three years of her transition from male to female, GIRL INSIDE is a beautiful film that tracks her emot...

Girl Wrestler
A film by Diane Zander, 2004, 53 min., Color
GIRL WRESTLER follows 13-year-old Tara Neal, a Texas teenager who upsets traditional expectations by insisting that girls and boys should be able to w...

Girls Around the World
Directed by Maria Barea, Kaija Jurikkala, Monique Mbeka Phoba, Pascale Schmidt, Sabiha Sumar and Yingli Ma, 1999, 222 min., 6 in series, Color
Produced by Brenda Parkerson, GIRLS AROUND THE WORLD is a collection of six extraordinary documentaries that examine the hopes, dreams and worldviews ...

Girls Like Us
A film by Jane C. Wagner and Tina DiFeliciantonio, 1997, 57 min., Color
An ethnically diverse group of four working class girls strut, flirt, and testify in this vibrant, affecting portrait of teenage girls' experiences of...

A Girl's Own Story
A film by Jane Campion, 1986, 27 min., BW
Beatlemania, the sixties and growing up. Some stories about girlhood: where family is strange, adulthood lonely, and innocence perverse....

Girls Still Dream
A film by Ateyyat El Abnoudy, 1995, 24 min., Color
In this engrossing new documentary, award-winning filmmaker Ateyyat El Abnoudy realistically portrays the challenges facing girls in a country where o...

Gluttony
A film by Helke Sander, 1986, Color
Eve discovers the rapture of the apple and offers it to Adam thus committing the original sin. Told in studio-bound cartoon style, this tale serves a...

God Sleeps in Rwanda
A film by Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy Sherman, Narrated by Rosario Dawson, 2004, 28 min., Color
Uncovering amazing stories of hope in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, Academy Award-Nominee GOD SLEEPS IN RWANDA captures the spirit of five co...

Golden Threads
A film by Lucy Winer and Karen Eaton, 1999, 56 min., Color
Profiling the life of 93 year old lesbian activist Christine Burton, founder of a global networking service for mid-life and elder lesbians this docum...

The Good Wife of Tokyo
A film by Claire Hunt and Kim Longinotto, 1992, 52 min., Color
“Forget those demure ladies with fragrant fans and meet the new breed of Japanese women!” — Amanda Casson, London Film Festival. Kazuko Hohki goes ba...

Gotta Make This Journey
Produced by Michelle Parkerson
Directed by Joseph Camp, 1983, 58 min., Color
This vibrant and engaging video profiles the a capella activist group, Sweet Honey in the Rock. Singing to end the oppression of Black people world wi...

The Grace Lee Project
A film by Grace Lee, 2005, 68 min., Color
When award-winning Korean-American filmmaker Grace Lee was growing up in Missouri, she was the only Grace Lee she knew. As an adult, however, she move...

The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
A film by Lisa F. Jackson, 2007, 76 min., Color
Winner of the Sundance Special Jury Prize in Documentary and the inspiration for a 2008 U.N. Resolution classifying rape as a weapon of war, this extr...

Greetings from Washington DC
A film by Rob Epstein, Frances Reid, Greta Schiller and Lucy Winer, 1981, 28 min.
A kaleidoscope of music, dance, stories and laughter shared at the first gay and lesbian rights march on Washington....

Grrlyshow
A film by Kara Herold, 2000, 18 min., Color
An 18 minute explosion of fringe feminism and print media, The GRRLYSHOW is a powerful and rebellious message from new voices often left unheard. Fil...

Guerillas in our Midst
A film by Amy Harrison, 1992, 35 min., Color
GUERRILLAS IN OUR MIDST presents a savvy exploration of the machinations of the commercial art-world during its boom in the 1980s, and brings the Guer...

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Hair Piece
A film by Ayoka Chenzira, 1985, 10 min., Color
An animated satire on the question of self image for African American women living in a society where beautiful hair is viewed as hair that blows in t...

Halving the Bones
A film by Ruth Ozeki, 1995, 70 min., Color/BW
Skeletons in the closet? HALVING THE BONES delivers a surprising twist to this tale. This cleverly-constructed film tells the story of Ruth, a half-...

Hammering It Out
A film by Vivian Price, 2000, 54 min., Color
“This spirited documentary spotlights the experience of women in the building trades, specifically those women involved in the Century Freeway Women's...

Healthcaring
A film by Denise Bostrom and Jane Warrenbrand, 1976, 32 min.
A classic chronicle of women's relationship to gynecology and healthcare, produced by Women Make Movies. In this bold and sensitive documentary, women...

A Healthy Baby Girl
A film by Judith Helfand, 1996, 57 min., Color
In 1963 filmmaker Judith Helfand's mother was prescribed the ineffective, carcinogenic synthetic hormone diethylstilbestrol (DES), meant to prevent mi...

Heaven
A film by Tracey Moffatt, 1997, 28 min., Color
This playful video from famed director and photographer Tracey Moffatt turns the tables on traditional representations of desire to examine the power ...

Heaven’s Crossroad
A film by Kimi Takesue, 2002, 35 min., Color
HEAVEN'S CROSSROAD traces an impressionistic journey through Vietnam exploring the nuances and complexities of “looking” cross-culturally. Structured ...

Hell to Pay
A film by Alexandra Anderson and Anne Cottringer, 1988, 52 min., Color
A moving and politically sophisticated analysis of the international debt situation through the eyes of the women of Bolivia, the poorest country in L...

Her Giveaway
A film by Mona Smith, 1988, 21 min., Color
Carole Lafavor (Ojibwe), activist, mother and registered nurse, is a person with AIDS. In this candid and moving portrait, Lafavor relates how she has...

Hidden Faces
A film by Claire Hunt and Kim Longinotto, 1990, 52 min., Color
Originally intended as a film about internationally renowned feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi, HIDDEN FACES develops into a fascinating portrayal of E...

The Hidden Story
A film by Shikha Jhingan and Ranjani Mazumdar, 1995, 58 min., Color
Its title referring both to women's hidden lives and the hidden work of creating ethnographic realities, this nuanced look at the lives of four rural ...

Highway Courtesans
A film by Mystelle Brabbee, 2005, 71 min., Color/BW
This provocative coming-of-age film chronicles the story of a bold young woman born into the Bachara community in Central India – the last hold-out of...

History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige
A film by Rea Tajiri, 1991, 32 min., Color/BW
Groundbreaking and haunting, this film is a poetic composition of recorded history and non-recorded memory. Filmmaker Rea Tajiri’s family was among th...

Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go
A film by Kim Longinotto, 2007, 100 min., Color
Harrowing at one moment and heartwarming the next, HOLD ME TIGHT, LET ME GO is set at England’s Mulberry Bush School, founded by Barbara Dockar-Drysda...

Hollywood Harems
A film by Tania Kamal-Eldin, 1999, 24 min., Color
"Tania Kamal-Eldin has once again produced a stunning video, a half-hour documentary, this time taking critical aim at Hollywood's abiding fascination...

Home Avenue
A film by Jennifer Montgomery, 1989, 17 min., Color
With commanding cinematic style, Montgomery retraces events of a night nine years ago when, between her boyfriend's dorm and her parent's house, she w...

Home Away from Home
A Sankofa film directed by Maureen Blackwood, 1994, 11 min., Color
A bittersweet drama that unfolds almost without dialogue, this prizewinning short film from Sankofa Film and Video conveys the isolation of immigrant ...

Home is Struggle
A film by Marta Bautis, 1991, 37 min., Color
Using interviews, photographs and theatrical vignettes, Home is Struggle explores the lives of women who have come to the United States from different...

Honey Moccasin
A film by Shelley Niro, 1998, 47 min., Color
This all-Native production, by director Shelley Niro (Mohawk), is part of the Smoke Signals new wave of films that examine Native identity in the 1990...

Honored by the Moon
A film by Mona Smith, 1990, 15 min., Color
In this upbeat and empowering videotape, Native American lesbians and gay men speak of their unique historical and spiritual role. Within the Native A...

Honoring Our Voices
A film by Judi Jeffrey, 1992, 33 min., Color
Sharing their stories about recovery and healing, six Native women of different ages and backgrounds talk about the choices they have made to overcome...

How Nice to See You Alive
A film by Lucia Murat, 1989, 100 min., Color
On March 31, 1964, a military coup overthrew the Brazilian government. Four years later, all civil rights were suspended and torture became a systema...

Hózhó of Native Women
A film by Beverly R. Singer (Tewa Pueblo, Navajo), 1997, 29 min., Color
"Five Native American Women from diverse tribal backgrounds tell moving stories, from their lives and cultural memory that concern wellness — physical...

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I Had an Abortion
A film by Gillian Aldrich and Jennifer Baumgardner, 2005, 55 min., Color
Underneath the din of politicians posturing about "life" and "choice" and beyond the shouted slogans about murder and rights, there are real stories o...

I Is a Long-Memoried Woman
Produced by Ingrid Lewis, A film by Frances-Anne Solomon, 1990, 50 min., Color
This extraordinary video chronicles the history of slavery through the eyes of Caribbean women. A striking combination of monologue, dance, and song—g...

I Need Your Full Cooperation/Underexposed
A film by Kathy High, 1989, 28 min., Color
In these two compelling videos, Kathy High explores the relationship between women’s bodies and the medical institution. Now a classic, I NEED YOUR FU...

I Was a Teenage Feminist
A film by Therese Shechter, 2005, 62 min., Color
Why is it that some young, independent, progressive women in today's society feel uncomfortable identifying with the F-word? Join filmmaker Therese Sh...

I Wonder What You Will Remember of September
A film by Cecilia Cornejo, 2004, 27 min., Color/BW
Cecilia Cornejo presents a haunting personal response to the events of September 11, 2001, informed and complicated by her status as a Chilean citizen...

I, Doll
A film by Tula Asselanis, 1996, 57 min., Color
There are more Barbie Dolls* in the U.S. than human beings. Barbie was fashioned after a German prostitute doll named "Lilli." These are just two of...

Illusions
A film by Julie Dash, 1983, 34 min., BW
The time is 1942, a year after Pearl Harbor; the place is National Studios, a fictitious Hollywood motion picture studio. Mignon Duprée, a Black woman...

The Image of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press
A film by Ulrike Ottinger, 1984, 150 min., Color
"In the poses of the dandy and the manufactured excesses of the tabloid press, Ottinger finds connections between our 'fin de siecle' moment and the l...

In Harm's Way
A film by Jan Krawitz, 1996, 27 min., Color
"For some of us there is an event in our lives after which nothing will ever be the same." IN HARM'S WAY's introductory narration sets the stage for ...

In My Father’s House
A film by Fatima Jebli Ouazzani, 1997, 67 min., Color
In this beautiful, poetic and deeply personal film, Moroccan filmmaker Fatima Jebli Ouazzani investigates the status accorded women in Islamic marriag...

In My Father's Church
A film by Charissa King-O'Brien, 2004, 49 min., Color/BW
Charissa is a lesbian who wants a church wedding, but it doesn’t seem to help that her dad is the pastor of the town’s United Methodist Church. While ...

In Sickness and In Health
A film by Pilar Prassas, Edited by Peter Heacock, 2007, 56 min., Color
A deeply affecting film by newcomer Pilar Prassas and edited by Peter Heacock, In Sickness and In Health cuts through abstract ideologies, poli...

In the Best Interests of the Children
A film by Frances Reid, Elizabeth Stevens and Cathy Zheutlin, 1977, 53 min.
This groundbreaking film on lesbian mothering portrays the diversity of experience, race and class among eight lesbian mothers and their children....

In the Morning
A film by Danielle Lurie, Produced by Katie Mustard, 2004, 10 min., Color
In this daring short drama which is based on a true story, a young woman is brutally attacked, and the responsibility of restoring her family's lost h...

Invisible Adversaries
A film by Valie Export, 1976, 108 min., Color
Breaking free of conventional unities of body, space and time, this early feature by one of Europe's leading feminist filmmakers is a haunting excursi...

Invocation
A film by Jo Ann Kaplan, 1987, 53 min., Color/BW
Maya Deren is a legend of avant-garde cinema. This authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features excerpts fro...

Iranian Journey
A film by Maysoon Pachachi, Produced by Noura Sakkaf and Iraj Emami, 1999, 54 min., Color
Massoumeh Soltan Baloghie is the first woman long-distance bus driver in Iran and perhaps in the Islamic world. Iraqi filmmaker Maysoon Pachachi joins...

Iraqi Women
A film by Maysoon Pachachi, 1994, 54 min., Color
IRAQI WOMEN—VOICES FROM EXILE provides a fascinating and rare look at the recent history of Iraq through the eyes and experiences of Iraqi women livin...

Iron Ladies of Liberia
A film by Siatta Scott Johnson and Daniel Junge, Produced by Henry Ansbacher & Jonathan Stack, 2007, 77 min., Color
After surviving a 14-year civil war and a government riddled with corruption, Liberia is ready for change. On January 16, 2006, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf ...

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Jane: An Abortion Service
A film by Kate Kirtz and Nell Lundy, 1996, 58 min., Color
This fascinating political look at a little-known chapter in women's history tells the story of "Jane", the Chicago-based women's health group who per...

Japanese American Women
A film by Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro and Leita Hagemann Luchetti, 1992, 28 min., Color
The stereotype of the polite, docile, exotic Asian woman is shattered in this documentary in which a dozen women speak about their experiences as part...

Jenny and Jenny
A film by Michal Aviad, 1997, 60 min., Color
This moving, closely observed portrait of adolescence documents one summer in the lives of two 17 year old cousins named Jenny. As North African Jewi...

Joan Does Dynasty/Joan Sees Stars
Two films by Joan Braderman, 1993, 95 min., Color
In the now classic, JOAN DOES DYNASTY (1986, 35 mins), Braderman superimposes her own image over scenes from one of the most popular night time soap o...

Jodie: An Icon
A film by Pratibha Parmar, 1996, 24 min., Color
Jodie is a fast paced, breezy look at the transatlantic phenomenon that has made Hollywood actress Jodie Foster an icon for lesbians who identify with...

Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia
A film by Ulrike Ottinger, 1989, 165 min., Color
Ulrike Ottinger's epic adventure traces a fantastic encounter between two different worlds. Seven western women travelers meet aboard the sumptuous, m...

A Jury of Her Peers
A film by Sally Heckel, 1980, 30 min., Color
On a desolate American farm in the early 1900's, a farmer is found murdered in his sleep and his wife is jailed as the prime suspect. The highly antic...

Juxta
A film by Hiroko Yamazaki, 1989, 29 min., BW
This beautiful drama observes the psychological effects of racism on two children of Japanese women and American servicemen. Thirty-one year old Kate,...

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Kathleen Shannon: On Film, Feminism & Other Dreams
A film by Gerry Rogers, 1997, 50 min., Color
This inspiring portrait depicts the life of film pioneer Kathleen Shannon, the founder of Studio D at the National Film Board of Canada. Founded to f...

Khush
A film by Pratibha Parmar, 1991, 24 min., Color
KHUSH means ecstatic pleasure in Urdu. For South Asian lesbians and gay men in Britain, North America, and India (where homosexuality is still illegal...

Killing Time/Fannie's Film
Two films by Fronza Woods, 1979, 15 min., BW
Part of the mediamaking movement that first gave centrality to the voices and experiences of African American women during the late Seventies and earl...

A Kiss on the Mouth
Directed by Jacira Melo, 1987, 30 min., Color
From the Lilith Video Collective comes this sensitive and sympathetic examination of female prostitution in urban Brazil. Frank, intimate and politica...

A Knock Out
A film by Tessa Boerman and Samuel Reiziger, 2004, 53 min., Color
Boxing champion Michele Aboro grew up in South London, where life for a girl was never easy, let alone for a mixed-race lesbian girl. Thanks to her te...

Knowing Her Place
A film by Indu Krishnan, 1990, 40 min., Color
A moving investigation of the cultural schizophrenia experienced by Vasu, an Indian woman who has spent most of her life in the U.S. Vasu's relationsh...

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L Is For The Way You Look
A film by Jean Carlomusto, 1991, 24 min., Color
L IS FOR THE WAY YOU LOOK is a playful exploration of lesbian history and the women who have served as role models and objects of desire for young les...

La Boda
A film by Hannah Weyer, 2000, 53 min., Color
In an intimate portrait of migrant life along the U.S.-Mexican border, Hannah Weyer’s new film LA BODA delves into the challenges faced by a community...

La Cueca Sola
A film by Marilu Mallet, 2003, 52 min., Color
On September 11, 1973, a military coup in Chile brought Augusto Pinochet to power, and over the next 17 years, thousands of women and men were taken f...

La Nouba des Femmes du Mont-Chenoua
A film by Assia Djebar, 1977, 115 min., Color
Finally available in the United States, this classic film from acclaimed novelist and filmmaker Assia Djebar is essential viewing for an understandin...

The Ladies Room
A film by Mahnaz Afzali, Produced by Hassan Poor-Shirazi & Mahnaz Afzali, 2003, 55 min., Color
Directed by the acclaimed Iranian actress Mahnaz Afzali and filmed entirely inside a ladies washroom in a public park in Tehran, this absorbing docume...

Lady Lazarus
A film by Sandra Lahire, 1991, 25 min., Color/BW
LADY LAZARUS weaves a visual response to Sylvia Plath's own readings of her work, including DADDY, ARIEL and selections from THE BELL JAR. Elegiac bu...

Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza De Mayo
A film by Susana Blaustein and Lourdes Portillo, 1985, 64 min., Color
This Academy award-nominated documentary about the Argentinian mothers’ movement to demand to know the fate of 30,000 “disappeared” sons and daughters...

Lebanon: Bits and Pieces
A film by Olga Nakkas, 1994, 60 min., Color
LEBANON: BITS AND PIECES is an exquisitely beautiful and profoundly moving exploration of the myths and realities of present-day Lebanon, as reflected...

Leila Khaled: Hijacker
A film by Lina Makboul, 2005, 58 min., Color
In 1969 Palestinian Leila Khaled made history by becoming the first woman to hijack an airplane. As a Palestinian child growing up in Sweden, filmmake...

License to Thrive: Title IX at 35
A Film by Theresa Moore, 2008, 48 min., Color
“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied benefits of, or be subjected to discriminatio...

Linda & Ali
A film by Lut Vandekeybus, 2005, 94 min., Color
LINDA AND ALI provides a nuanced and intimate look into the life of a traditional Muslim family in Doha, Qatar. But Linda and Ali’s 20-year marriage i...

Lip
A film collaboration between Tracey Moffatt and Gary Hillberg, 1999, 10 min., Color
It is Hollywood’s favorite role for black women: the maid. Sassy or sweet, snickeringly attentive or flippantly dismissive, the performers who play t...

Listening for Something
A film by Dionne Brand, 1996, 56 min., Color
This intriguing exchange between eminent American poet Adrienne Rich and Trinidadian-Canadian poet/filmmaker Dionne Brand, who share strong feminist a...

Lockin’ Up
A film by T. Nicole Atkinson, 1997, 29 min., Color
When Jamaican-born filmmaker T. Nicole Atkinson threw away her comb to let her hair coil into dreadlocks, she was forced to challenge both society’s a...

The London Story
A film by Sally Potter, 1987, 15 min., Color
This lively, accessible spy spoof revolves around the unlikely alliance of three eccentric characters and their mission to uncover government foreign ...

The Lost Garden
A film by Marquise Lepage, 1995, 53 min., Color
THE LOST GARDEN looks at the life and times of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873-1968), arguably, the first narrative filmmaker in the world. Creating her first...

The Lost Tribe
A film by Rachel Landers, 2005, 56 min., Color
While ex-Mormon-lesbian-atheist Sue-Ann Post has carved out a name for herself as a stand-up comic in Australia, she has been estranged from her famil...

Louder Than Our Words
A film by Harriet Hirshhorn and Lydia Pilcher, 1983, 36 min.
A look at civil disobedience and women's rights in the U.S. from the suffragettes through the anti-war and disarmament movements....

Love
A film collaboration between Tracey Moffatt and Gary Hillberg, 2003, 21 min., Color/BW
“The clinch that signals the fade-out in so many movies is just the beginning of Love, as Moffatt and editor Hillberg turn their energetic montage tec...

Love & Diane
A film by Jennifer Dworkin, 2002, Color
Jennifer Dworkin’s groundbreaking documentary LOVE & DIANE presents a searingly honest and moving examination of poverty, welfare and drug rehabilitat...

Love, Honour & Disobey
A film by Faction Films, Directed by Saeeda Khanum, 2005, 61 min., Color
Domestic violence in all forms—from physical abuse to forced marriages to honour killings—continues to be frighteningly common worldwide and accepted ...

Love, Women and Flowers
A film by Marta Rodriguez and Jorge Silva, 1988, 58 min., Color
At any time of year in the U.S., carnations of every color are plentiful and cheap – but the ready availability of these beautiful flowers comes at a ...

Lust
A film by Valie Export, 1986, Color
Valie's aproach to lust translates in modern terms to a music video about sex and consumerism. In one satiric scene a bodybuilder, who uses his body ...

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Macho
A film by Lucinda Broadbent, 2000, 26 min., Color
In 1998, Managua, Nicaragua became host to one of the most publicized and controversial cases of sexual abuse to hit modern day Latin America. At the...

Madame X: An Absolute Ruler
A film by Ulrike Ottinger, 1977, 141 min., Color
"Ulrike Ottinger has a larger body of work than almost any other lesbian filmmaker, and her rarely seen first feature contains most of the elements th...

Made In India
A film by Patricia Plattner, 1998, 52 min., Color
This powerful documentary is a portrait of SEWA, the now-famous women's organization in India that holds to the simple yet radical belief that poor wo...

Made In Thailand
A film by Eve-Laure Moros and Linzy Emery, 1999, 30 min., Color
In Thailand, women make up 90 percent of the labor force responsible for garments and toys for export by multinational corporations. This powerful, re...

Maggie Growls
A film by Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater, 2002, 56 min., Color
MAGGIE GROWLS is a portrait of the amazing, canny, lusty, charming and unstoppable Maggie Kuhn (1905-1995), who founded the Gray Panthers (the nation’...

Maid in America
A film by Anayansi Prado, Produced by Kevin Leadingham, 2004, 57 min., Color
They clean other people’s homes and raise other families’ children—often leaving their own families behind. MAID IN AMERICA is an intimate look into t...

The Man Who Stole My Mother's Face
A film by Cathy Henkel, Produced by Jeff Canin & Cathy Henkel, 2003, 58 min., Color
Sexual assault remains the most hidden and the fastest growing crime in the world, and in South Africa the statistics are staggering. Two days before ...

A Man, When He Is a Man
A film by Valeria Sarmiento, 1982, 66 min., Color
Set in Costa Rica and touched with dark humor, this stylistically imaginative documentary illuminates the social climate and cultural traditions which...

Margaret Sanger
A film directed by Terese Svoboda and Steve Bull, 1992, 28 min., Color
MARGARET SANGER: A PUBLIC NUISANCE highlights Sanger's pioneering strategies of using media and popular culture to advance the cause of birth control...

Mary Lou Williams
A film by Joanne Burke, 1990, 60 min., Color
Pioneering Black American composer-arranger-pianist Mary Lou Williams is one of the most remarkable figures in the history of jazz. In this authorit...

Master Smart Woman
A film by Jane Morrison in collaboration with photographer Peter Namuth, 1984, 28 min., Color
From the award-winning director of THE WHITE HERON and THE TWO WORLDS OF ANGELITA, this loving portrait is a much deserved re-evaluation of Sarah Orne...

The Match That Started My Fire
A film by Cathy Cook, 1991, 19 min., Color
The telephone rings and the girl-talk begins: secrets emerge and confessions build. An exciting experimental comedy in which the joy of sexual pleasur...

Measures of Distance
A film by Mona Hatoum, 1988, 15 min., Color
In this resonant work, Palestinian-born video and performance artist Mona Hatoum explores the renewal of friendship between mother and daughter during...

Meeting of Two Queens
A film by Cecilia Barriga, 1991, 14 min., Color
In this witty, luminous tape Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich star in the roles of their lives—cast as lovers by Chilean video artist Barriga. Queen C...

Memory Pictures
A film by Pratibha Parmar, 1984, 24 min.
A beautifully composed profile of gay Indian photographer, Sunil Gupta, and the way his work portrays issues of sexual and racial identity in relation...

Memory/all echo
A film by Yunah Hong, 1990, 27 min., Color
“Based on selections from late Korean-American writer Theresa H.K. Cha’s ‘Dictee’, this work by videomaker Yun-ah Hong gives primacy to her staccato,...

A Minor Altercation
A film by Jackie Shearer, 1977, 30 min.
A fight between an African American and a white schoolgirl in Boston is explored in all its complexity in this fact-based drama from one of the produc...

Mirror Mirror
A film by Jan Krawitz, 1990, 17 min., Color
MIRROR MIRROR provocatively explores the relationship between a woman's body image and the quest for an idealized female form. 13 women, of varying ag...

Miss Amy and Miss May
A film by Sistren Research
Directed by Cynthia Wilmot, 1990, 40 min., Color
Amy Bailey, daughter of an eminent Black family, was a leader of the Jamaican women’s movement in the 1930s. May Farquharson, daughter of a wealthy wh...

Miss Universe in Peru
A film by Grupo Chaski, 1986, 32 min., BW
Shot during the Miss Universe contest hosted by Peru in 1982, this documentary juxtaposes the glamour of the pageant with the realities of Peruvian wo...

Mitsuye and Nellie
A film by Allie Light and Irving Saraf, 1981, 58 min., Color
This absorbing documentary examines the lives of Asian Americans through the inspirational poetry of Mitsuye Yamada and Nellie Wong. Interviews, rare ...

Mohawk Girls
A film by Tracey Deer, 2005, 53 min., Color
In MOHAWK GIRLS, filmmaker Tracey Deer intimately captures the lives of three exuberant and insightful Mohawk teenagers as they face their future. Lik...

Monday’s Girls
A film by Ngozi Onwurah, 1993, 50 min., Color
This fascinating documentary, by the filmmaker of THE BODY BEAUTIFUL, follows two young Nigerian women’s different experiences of a traditional rite o...

Mother of Many Children
A film by Alanis Obomsawin, 1977, 58 min., Color
Composed of a series of vignettes featuring Native women from different first nations, this classic work by Alanis Obomsawin, an Abenaki, reflects a p...

Mother of the River
A film by Zeinabu Irene Davis, 1995, 28 min., BW
In this poignant story set in the 1850s, a young slave girl befriends a magical woman in the woods called Mother of the River. Through their friendsh...

The Mother: Mitos Maternos
A film by Marta Bautis, 1994, 69 min., Color
This wry, self-reflective tape explores the mythical figure of the mother from multiple viewpoints-documentary and fiction, Spanish and English, theor...

Motherland
A film by Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, 2006, 41 min., Color
How do we decide where is home? Feeling increasingly isolated in her adopted homeland, accomplished documentarian Dai Sil Kim-Gibson (SILENCE BROKEN: ...

Mrs. Goundo's Daughter
A film by Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater, 2009, 60 min., Color
Mrs. Goundo is fighting to remain in the United States. But it’s not just because of the ethnic conflict and drought that has plagued her native Mali....

Mujeria
A film by Teresa ‘Osa’ Hidalgo de la Riva, 1992, 20 min., Color
“A hip, lively tribute to the Olmeca culture of Mexico. Less well known than the Aztecs, the Olmeca people played an equally important role in Mexica...

My Daughter the Terrorist
A film by Beate Arnestad, Produced by Morten Daae, 2007, 58 min., Color
This fascinating documentary is an exceedingly rare, inside look at an organization that most of the world has blacklisted as a terrorist group. Made ...

My Feminism
A film by Dominique Cardona and Laurie Colbert, 1997, 55 min., Color
In an era of anti-feminist backlash, this articulate documentary by the makers of THANK GOD I'M A LESBIAN forcefully reminds us that the revolution co...

My Filmmaking, My Life
A film by Patricia Diaz, 1990, 30 min., Color
Matilde Landeta entered the flourishing Mexican film industry in the 1930s, working her way up from script girl to direct 110 shorts and, in the late ...

My Heart is My Witness
A film by Louise Carré, 1996, 56 min., Color
MY HEART IS MY WITNESS, by renowed French-Canadian filmmaker, Louise Carré, investigates the status of women in Islam through interviews with men and ...

My Home - Your War
A film by Kylie Grey. Produced by Denoux Films Productions, 2006, 52 min., Color
MY HOME – YOUR WAR offers an extraordinary look at the effect of the Iraq war through the eyes of an ordinary Iraqi woman. Shot in Baghdad over three ...

My Home, My Prison
A film by Erica Marcus and Susana Blaustein, 1992, 66 min., Color
MY HOME, MY PRISON is an uplifting and informative documentary based on the autobiography of Palestinian peace activist and journalist, Raymonda Hawa ...

My Israel – Revisiting the Trilogy
A film by Yulie Cohen, 2008, 78 min., Color
Few filmmakers have probed issues of Israeli nationalism and Israeli-Palestinian relations more completely or intimately than Tel Aviv-born Yulie Cohe...

My Left Breast
A film by Gerry Rogers, 2000, 57 min., Color
“Every once in a while someone comes up with a film that sends us a clear signal that it's time to re-evaluate our lives. The film MY LEFT BREAST is n...

My Name is Kahentiiosta
A film by Alanis Obomsawin, 1995, 30 min., Color
This affecting film from acclaimed director of KANEHSATAKE: 270 YEARS OF RESISTEANCE, Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki), profiles a young, courageous Kahnawa...

My Niagara
A film by Helen Lee, 1992, 40 min., Color
Grasping the texture of half-expressed desire, this beautifully drawn drama evokes the complex dislocations of an Asian American woman. Shadowed by th...

My Sister, My Bride
A film by Bonnie Burt, 2004, 26 min., Color
As the issue of gay marriage grips the country, this touching documentary follows the heartwarming and historic journey of two Jewish lesbians as they...

My Terrorist
A film by Yulie Cohen, 2002, 58 min., Color
In 1978, filmmaker Yulie Cohen was wounded in a terrorist attack by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. A stewardess for the Israeli ai...

Myriam’s Gaze
Directed by Clara Riascos, 1987, 28 min., Color
An inspirational portrait of a woman living on the outskirts of Bogota. “Through Myriam’s eyes, we get a glimpse of her strength, dignity and tenderne...

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Naked Spaces
Produced by Jean-Paul Bourdier
Directed by Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1985, 135 min., Color
Shot with stunning elegance and clarity, NAKED SPACES explores the rhythm and ritual of life in the rural environments of six West African countries (...

Nalini By Day, Nancy by Night
A film by Sonali Gulati, 2005, 27 min., Color/BW
In this insightful documentary, filmmaker Sonali Gulati explores complex issues of globalization, capitalism and identity through a witty and personal...

Navajo Talking Picture
A film by Arlene Bowman, 1986, 40 min., Color
In NAVAJO TALKING PICTURE film student Arlene Bowman (Navajo) travels to the Reservation to document the traditional ways of her grandmother. The film...

New Directions
A 4-part series by Joanne Burke, 1997, 145 min., 4 in series, Color
NEW DIRECTIONS is award-winning documentarian Joanne Burke's series about women's empowerment in developing countries. Each one spotlights the critic...

Nice Colored Girls
A film by Tracey Moffatt, 1987, 16 min., Color
This stylistically daring film audaciously explores the history of exploitation between white men and Aboriginal women, juxtaposing the “first encount...

Night Cries
A film by Tracey Moffatt, 1990, 19 min., Color
On an isolated, surreal Australian homestead, a middle-aged Aboriginal woman nurses her dying white mother. The adopted daughter’s attentive gestures ...

Night Girl
A film by Yingli Ma, 2001, 45 min., 6 in series, Color
From the series GIRLS AROUND THE WORLD, NIGHT GIRL presents the poignant story of Han Lin, a 17-year old prematurely made to enter into the workforce ...

Night Passage
Directed and produced by Trinh T. Minh-ha and Jean-Paul Bourdier, 2004, 98 min., Color
Made in homage to Kenji Miyazawa’s children’s sci-fi classic MILKY WAY RAILROAD, NIGHT PASSAGE is the latest experimental feature from celebrated film...

900 Women
A film by Laleh Khadivi, 2000, 72 min., Color
“The Louisiana Correctional Institute is located in the swamps of southern Louisiana in the small town of St. Gabriel. Built in 1970 to house an incre...

The Noble Struggle
A film by Elli Safari, 2007, 29 min., Color
On March 18, 2005, Amina Wadud shocked the Islamic world by leading a mixed-gender Friday prayer congregation in New York. THE NOBLE STRUGGLE OF AMINA...

Nobody Knows My Name
A film by Rachel Raimist, 1999, 58 min., Color
NOBODY KNOWS MY NAME tells the story of women who are connected by their love for hip-hop music. Despite the fact that these talented female artists ...

Nollywood Lady
A film by Dorothee Wenner, 2008, 52 min., Color
Peace Anyiam-Fibresima of Lagos, Nigeria is an impresario of showbiz and an impassioned spokeswoman for the thriving and innovative African film indus...

Nu Shu: A Hidden Language of Women in China
A film by Yue-Qing Yang, 1999, 59 min., Color
In feudal China, women, usually with bound feet, were denied educational opportunities and condemned to social isolation. But in Jian-yong county in ...

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On Becoming a Woman
Directed by Cheryl Chisholm, 1987, 90 min., Color
This extraordinary documentary provides rare insights into some important health issues for African American women. Although it was produced before A...

On Cannibalism
A film by Fatimah Tobing Rony, 1994, 6 min., Color
King Kong meets the family photograph in this provocative experimental video exploring the West's insatiable appetite for native bodies in museums, wo...

On the Eighth Day
A two-part film series by Gwynne Basen, 1992, 51 min., 2 in series, Color
ON THE EIGHT DAY, a two-part film series, is critical viewing about new reproductive and genetic technologies and poses disturbing questions about why...

Out in South Africa
A film by Barbara Hammer, 1995, 51 min., Color
In 1994, Barbara Hammer was invited to South Africa to present a retrospective of her 77 films and videos at OUT IN SOUTH AFRICA, the first gay and le...

Out of Phoenix Bridge
A film by Li Hong, 1997, 110 min., Color
This groundbreaking work from Li Hong, China’s first independent female documentarian, follows two years in the lives of four young women from the cou...

Outlaw
A film by Alisa Lebow, 1994, 26 min., Color
Leslie Feinberg, a self-identified "gender outlaw" who has spent much of her life passing as a man, speaks with passion and intelligence about her exp...

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Pain, Passion and Profit
A film by Gurinder Chadha, 1992, 49 min., Color
From the director of Bend it Like Beckham and Bride and Prejudice, PAIN, PASSION AND PROFIT is an inspirational look at women entreprene...

Paradise Lost
A film by Ibtisam Salh Mara'ana, 2003, 56 min., Color
Arab Israeli filmmaker Ibtisam Salh Mara'ana grew up in Paradise (Fureidis in Arabic), a small fishing village overlooking the Mediterranean. One of t...

The Passion of Remembrance
A Sankofa film by Maureen Blackwood and Isaac Julien, 1986, 80 min., Color
The first film by Sankofa Film and Video, THE PASSION OF REMEMBRANCE has gained classic status as a representation of the totality and diversity of Bl...

Passionless Moments
A film by Jane Campion, 13 min., BW
A series of wry vignettes: SEAN AND ARNOLD NOT SPEAKING; SCOTTIES, PART OF THE GRAND DESIGN OF THE UNIVERSE; ANGELA EATS MEATS, IRONING ON SUNDAY, and...

Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority
A film by Kimberlee Bassford, 2008, 56 min., Color/BW
In 1965, Patsy Takemoto Mink became the first woman of color in the United States Congress. Seven years later, she ran for the US presidency and was t...

The Peacekeepers and the Women
A film by Karin Jurschick, 2003, 80 min., Color
Winner of the Arte-Documentary Award for Best German Documentary, this chilling investigation examines the booming sex-trafficking industry in Bosnia ...

Peel
A film by Jane Campion, 9 min., Color
On a hot Australian summer's day, a recalcitrant, freckled, red-headed family of three go on a Sunday drive in the country. Their outing results in an...

Peggy and Fred in Hell
Leslie Thornton, 21 min.
The first installment of Leslie Thornton's ongoing epic follows two children, Peggy and Fred, through a densely cluttered, technological-consumer jumb...

Peggy and Fred in Kansas
Leslie Thornton, 11 min.
A few years older now, our boy and girl heroes mumble and chant their way through mid- America's wasteland. Thornton's interest in the line between la...

Perfect Image?
A film by Maureen Blackwood, 1988, 30 min., Color
Bright and imaginative in its approach to its subject, PERFECT IMAGE? exposes stereotypical images of Black women and explores women's own ideas of se...

Performing the Border
A film by Ursula Biemann, 1999, 42 min., Color
A video essay set in the Mexican-U.S. border town of Ciudad Juarez, where U.S. multinational corporations assemble electronic and digital equipment j...

The Phantom of the Operator
A film by Caroline Martel, 2004, 66 min., Color/BW
This wry and delightful found-footage film reveals a little-known chapter in labor history: the story of female telephone operators’ central place in ...

Picking Tribes
A film by S. Pearl Sharp (formerly Saundra Sharp), 1988, 7 min., Color
“In a heartfelt, and often hilarious, attempt to be more than ‘ordinary’, a girl growing up in the 1940s tries to choose between her African-American ...

The Pill
A film by Erna Buffie and Elise Swerhone, 1999, 45 min., Color
Conceived to help women control their fertility, the birth control pill was a touchstone for sexual liberation in the 1960s and is now used by million...

A Place Called Home
A film by Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri, 1998, 30 min., Color
Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri grew up in pre-Revolution Tehran daydreaming about an ideal life in the West. Nineteen years later, after living and working ...

A Place of Rage
A film by Pratibha Parmar, 1991, 52 min., Color
This exuberant celebration of African American women and their achievements features interviews with Angela Davis, June Jordan and Alice Walker. Withi...

Positive Images
A film by Julie Harrison and Harilyn Rousso, 1989, 58 min., Color
People with disabilities constitute nearly twenty percent of the American population. Sexism and often racism compound discrimination based on disabil...

A Powerful Thang
A film by Zeinabu Irene Davis, 1991, 57 min., Color
This innovative drama, set in Ohio, traces an African American couple's search for intimacy and friendship. The spirited, African-identified Yasmine A...

The Practice of Love
A film by Valie Export, 1985, 90 min., Color
"Valie Export's third feature is an anti-romance in which the heroine, oscillating between two relationships, gradually discovers that both are imposs...

Praise House
A film by Julie Dash, 1991, 25 min., Color
PRAISE HOUSE combines elements of theater, dance and music based on the rhythms and rituals of Africa. Julie Dash, director of DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST,...

Pregnant with Dreams
A film by Julia Barco, 1988, 48 min.
Engaging, intimate and fast-moving, this video reflects the diversity and richness of Latin American feminism by documenting the 4th Encuentro Feminis...

Prescription for Change
A film by Tami Gold and Lyn Goldfarb, 1986, 30 min.
Nurses: traditionally female, underpaid, and under appreciated. PRESCRIPTION FOR CHANGE presents a rare behind-the-scenes look at nursing....

Prey
A film by Helen Lee, 1995, 26 min., Color
The morning after a break-in at her Korean immigrant father's convenience store, Il Bae, 20-something and strong-willed, catches a hunky shoplifter-on...

Pride of Place
A film by Dorthea Gazidis and Kim Longinotto, 1976, 60 min., BW
A rarely seen classic, PRIDE OF PLACE was made as a first project while Longinotto was a student at England’s National School of Television and Film. ...

Purity
A film by Anat Zuria, Produced by Amit Breuer, 2002, 63 min., Color
Israeli filmmaker Anat Zuria examines the Tharat Hamishpaha (family purity), the ancient laws and rituals shaping women’s lives and sexuality within J...

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Queen of the Mountain
A film by Martha Goell Lubell, 2005, 56 min., Color
Theresa Goell started her career as an archaeologist with four strikes against her: she was a female, divorced, a Jew working with Muslims and hearing...

Quick Brown Fox: An Alzheimer's Story
A film by Ann Hedreen and Rustin Thompson, 2004, 62 min., Color
Who are you if you can’t remember who you are? Ann Hedreen’s mother started showing symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease at the barely-old age of 60. Thoug...

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Rachel's Daughters
A film by Allie Light and Irving Saraf
Produced with Nancy Evans, 1997, 107 min., Color
From the makers of the Oscar-winning IN THE SHADOWS OF THE STARS, this fascinating documentary follows a group of women - all breast cancer activists ...

Ramleh
A film by Michal Aviad, 2001, 58 min., Color
A timely and powerful look at the ideological, cultural and political conflicts in contemporary Israel, this highly original documentary profiles thre...

Rate It X
Directed by Lucy Winer and Paula De Koenigsberg, 1986, 93 min., Color
What do men really think of women? This provocative, highly acclaimed documentary provides an unflinching look at sexism in America. A series of distu...

Real Indian
A film by Malinda Maynor, 1996, 7.5 min., Color
"Real Indian" is a lighthearted, very personal look at the meaning of cultural identity. As a Lumbee Indian, the filmmaker is constantly confronted w...

Reassemblage
Co-produced by Jean-Paul Bourdier
Directed by Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1982, 40 min., Color
Women are the focus but not the object of Trinh T. Minh-ha’s influential first film, a complex visual study of the women of rural Senegal. Through a c...

Rebel Hearts
A film by Betsy Newman, 1995, 60 min., Color
REBEL HEARTS is a captivating documentary about the abolitionists Sarah and Angelina Grimke and the anti-slavery movement of the early 19th Century. ...

Reconstruction
A film by Irene Lusztig, 2001, 90 min., Color/BW
Filmmaker Irene Lusztig unearths a dark family secret in search of answers and reconciliation in her breakthrough feature documentary, RECONSTRUCTION....

Remembering Thelma
A film by Kathe Sandler, 1981, 15 min.
A lively profile of dance instructor and performer Thelma Hill containing rare footage of original Alvin Ailey Dance Theater and the New York Negro Ba...

Remembering Wei Yi-fang, Remembering Myself
A film by Yvonne Welbon, 1995, 29 min., Color
REMEMBERING WEI YI-FANG, REMEMEBERING MYSELF: An Autobiography charts the influence of the filmmaker’s six-year experience as an African American woma...

Remote Sensing
A film by Ursula Biemann, 2001, 53 min., Color
In Biemann’s latest video, she traces the routes and reasons of women who travel across the globe for work in the sex industry. By using the latest i...

Riddles of the Sphinx
A film by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, 1977, 92 min., Color
Laura Mulvey, author of the seminal essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema , helped to establish feminist film theory as a legitimate field...

The Righteous Babes
A film by Pratibha Parmar, 1998, 50 min., Color
In this accomplished documentary, acclaimed filmmaker Pratibha Parmar (A PLACE OF RAGE, WARRIOR MARKS) explores the intersection of feminism with popu...

Ripples of Change
A film by Nanako Kurihara, 1993, 57 min., Color
Powerful political analysis is combined with a passionate personal story in this exceptional documentary about the Japanese women’s liberation movemen...

Rough Aunties
A film by Kim Longinotto, 2008, 103 min., Color
Fearless, feisty and resolute, the “Rough Aunties” are a remarkable group of women unwavering in their stand to protect and care for the abused, negle...

Rule of Thumb
A film by Jill Evans Petzall, 1989, 22 min., Color
A sensitive video which explores domestic violence through the perspective of women who have left abusive relationships. Five women from different bac...

Runaway
A film by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini, 2001, 87 min., Color
“RUNAWAY is a powerful and heart-breaking documentary about a group of young runaway girls who are taken to a women's shelter in Tehran, Iran. The fil...

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Sabor a Mi
A film by Claudia Morgado Escanilla, 1997, 20 min., Color
Claudia Morgado Escanilla's SABOR A MI is an erotic short drama about sensual yearnings, the guilty pleasures of watching, and the secret complicity o...

Salata Baladi (An Egyptian Salad)
A film by Nadia Kamel, 2008, 105 min., Color
Award-winning Egyptian filmmaker Nadia Kamel’s heritage is a complex blend of religions and cultures. Her mother is a half-Jewish, half-Italian Christ...

Sally's Beauty Spot
A film by Helen Lee, 1990, 12 min., Color
A large black mole above an Asian woman's breast serves as a metaphor for cultural and racial difference in this engaging experimental film. Offscreen...

Sari Red
A film by Pratibha Parmar, 1988, 12 min., Color
Made in memory of Kalbinder Kaur Hayre, a young Indian woman killed in 1985 in a racist attack in England, SARI RED eloquently examines the effect of ...

The Sari Soldiers
A film by Julie Bridgham, 2008, 92 min., Color
Filmed over three years during the most historic and pivotal time in Nepal’s modern history, The Sari Soldiers is an extraordinary story of six...

Say My Name
A film by Nirit Peled, 2009, 73 min., Color
In a hip hop and R’n’B world dominated by men and noted for misogyny, the unstoppable female lyricists of Say My Name speak candidly about clas...

Señorita Extraviada, Missing Young Woman
A film by Lourdes Portillo, 2001, 74 min., Color
SEÑORITA EXTRAVIADA, MISSING YOUNG WOMAN tells the haunting story of the more than 350 kidnapped, raped and murdered young women of Juárez, Mexico...

Search for Freedom
A film by Munizae Jahangir, 2003, 54 min., Color/BW
SEARCH FOR FREEDOM traces the dramatic social and political history of Afghanistan from the 1920s to the present through the stories of four remarkabl...

Searching 4 Sandeep
A film by Poppy Stockell, 2007, 56 min., Color
Single, frustrated, and lonely in the middle of Sydney’s thriving gay community, director Poppy Stockell decides to “research” a light-hearted look at...

Searching for Go-Hyang
A film by Tammy Tolle, 1998, 32 min., Color
A moving personal documentary, SEARCHING FOR GO-HYANG traces the return of twin sisters to their native Korea after a fourteen year absence. Sent awa...

Secret Sounds Screaming
A film by Ayoka Chenzira, 1986, 30 min., Color
This sharp, creatively produced tape uses a tapestry of voices to examine the sexual abuse of young people. Children and teenagers, parents, social wo...

Selbe
A film by Safi Faye, 1983, 30 min., Color
This revealing documentary offers a rare view of daily life in West Africa. Shot in Senegal, SELBE focuses on the social role and economic responsibil...

Sentenced to Marriage
A film by Anat Zuria, Produced by Amit Breuer, 2004, 65 min., Color
Nominated for a Silver Wolf at IDFA, this shocking documentary exposes the Kafkaesque process of divorce for women in Israel where secular law does no...

The Sermons of Sister Jane
A film by Allie Light, Irving Saraf and Carol Monpere, 2007, 53 min., Color
From Oscar and Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Allie Light and Irving Saraf (Dialogues With Madwomen and In The Shadow of The Stars), in p...

Seven Hours To Burn
A film by Shanti Thakur, 1999, 9 min., Color/BW
"A visually expressive personal documentary that explores a family's history. Filmmaker Thakur mixes richly abstract filmmaking with disturbing archi...

Seven Women-Seven Sins
Produced by Maxi Cohen, 1987, 101 min., Color
What constitutes a deadly sin today? Seven of the world’s best-known women directors produce their own version of celluloid sin in this omnibus film. ...

Seventeen Rooms
A film by Caroline Sheldon, 1985, 9 min.
Britain’s Channel 4 refused to broadcast this piece because of its subtitle: WHAT DO LESBIANS DO IN BED? The tape looks into seventeen bedrooms to ch...

Sex and the Sandinistas
A film by Lucinda Broadbent, 1991, 25 min., Color
Nicaragua is known for the Sandinista Revolution, an inspiring struggle for national liberation. What has never been told before is the story of how ...

She Even Chewed Tobacco
By Elizabeth Stevens and Estelle Freedman, 1983, 40 min., BW
The Gold Rush. A new frontier. Nineteenth century California offered women the opportunity to pioneer new roles for themselves. Meet Babe Bean, the...

Shinjuku Boys
A film by Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams, 1995, 53 min., Color
From the makers of DREAM GIRLS, SHINJUKU BOYS introduces three onnabes who work as hosts at the New Marilyn Club in Tokyo. Onnabes are women who live...

Shoot for the Contents
Co-produced by Jean-Paul Bourdier
Directed by Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1991, 101 min., Color
Reflecting on Mao’s famous saying, “Let a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend,” Trinh T. Minh-ha’s film—whose title refer...

Shooting Women
A film by Alexis Krasilovsky, 2008, 54 min., Color
Featuring more than 50 camerawomen from around the world, and shot over a period of six years, Shooting Women, by pioneering filmmaker and cine...

Shouting Silent
A film by Renee Rosen and Xoliswa Sithole, 2002, 50 min., Color
SHOUTING SILENT explores the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic through the eyes of Xoliswa Sithole, an adult orphan who lost her mother to HIV/AIDS in 1...

Sidet: Forced Exile
A film by Salem Mekuria, 1991, 60 min., Color
During the past two decades, more than two million refugees have left Ethiopia. Famine, poverty and political strife as well as the religious persecut...

Silent Song
A film by Elida Schogt, 2001, 6 min., 3 in series
“In SILENT SONG Schogt deftly conjures an elaborate dialogue around issues of memory in its various forms - personal, historical, filmic… [her] rich a...

Simon & I
A film by Beverley Palesa Ditsie and Nicky Newman, 2002, 52 min., Color
SIMON & I is an intimate and inspiring portrait of black South African gay rights activist Simon Nkoli, who died of AIDS in 1998, and his fellow activ...

Sin by Silence
A film by Olivia Klaus, 2009, 49 min., Color
From behind prison walls, a group of extraordinary women are shattering misconceptions of domestic violence. An important new release that profiles Co...

Sin City Diary
A film by Rachel Rivera, 1992, 29 min., Color
SIN CITY DIARY is a powerful videotape which explores the lives of women who work as prostitutes around the U.S. Navy base at Subic Bay in the Philip...

Sir: Just a Normal Guy
A film by Melanie La Rosa, 2001, 57 min., Color
Screened to acclaim at Gay & Lesbian Film Festivals worldwide and LBGT events across the nation, this candid and courageous portrait of more than 15-m...

Siren Spirits
A film by Ngozi Onwurah, Pratibha Parmar, Frances-Anne Solomon, Dani Williamson, 1994, 80 min., Color/BW
SIREN SPIRITS is a wonderful feature comprising four short dramas directed by women of color, produced by Leda Serene for the British Film Institute a...

Sisters in Law
A film by Kim Longinotto, Co-directed by Florence Ayisi, 2005, 104 min., Color
Winner of the Prix Art et Essai at the Cannes Film Festival and screened to acclaim at more than 120 festivals around the world, SISTERS IN LAW is the...

Sisters in Resistance
A film by Maia Wechsler, 2000, 60 min., Color
“This compelling documentary shares the story of four French women of uncommon courage who, in their teens and twenties, risked their lives to fight t...

Sisters of the Screen
A film by Beti Ellerson, 2002, 73 min., Color
Exploring the extraordinary contributions of women filmmakers from Africa and the diaspora, Beti Ellerson’s engaging debut intersperses interviews wit...

Slaying the Dragon
A film by Deborah Gee, 1988, 60 min., Color
SLAYING THE DRAGON is a comprehensive look at media stereotypes of Asian and Asian American women since the silent era. From the racist use of white a...

Snakes and Ladders
A film by Trish Fitzsimmons and Mitzi Goldman, 1987, 59 min.
Like our own children’s game, Chutes and Ladders, the story of women’s education has always been one step forward, two steps back. In this creative d...

Some American Feminists
A film by Luce Guilbeault, Nicole Brossard and Margaret Wescott, 1980, 56 min., Color
SOME AMERICAN FEMINISTS explores one of the most significant social histories of this century-the second wave of the women's movement-and is a fascina...

Some Ground To Stand On
A film by Joyce Warshow
Co-produced and edited by Janet Baus, 1998, 35 min., Color
This compelling documentary tells the life story of Blue Lunden, a working class lesbian activist whose odyssey of personal transformation parallels l...

Some Real Heat
A film by Stefanie Jordan, 2001, 54 min., Color
SOME REAL HEAT explores the small and relatively new world of female firefighters in San Francisco and their upward climb to gain access to a male-dom...

Something Like a War
A film by Deepa Dhanraj, 1991, 52 min., Color
SOMETHING LIKE A WAR is a chilling examination of India’s family planning program from the point of view of the women who are its primary targets. It...

Song Journey
A film by Arlene Bowman and Jeanine Moret, 1994, 57 min., Color
SONG JOURNEY takes Arlene Bowman (Navajo) on the pow-wow circuit in the hope of reviving her connection to traditional Native culture. There she find...

A Song of Ceylon
A film by Laleen Jayamanne, 1985, 51 min., Color
A formally rigorous, visually stunning study of colonialism, gender and the body. The title echoes the classic British documentary and evokes a countr...

Soraida, Woman of Palestine
A film by Tahani Rached, 2004, 52 min., Color
Meeting Soraida will overturn any preconceived notions you may have about Palestine. In her neighborhood in Ramallah, the women do not all wear veils,...

Speaking Out: Women, AIDS and Hope in Mali
A film by Joanne Burke, 2002, 55 min., 4 in series, Color
The fourth installment of Joanne Burke’s critically acclaimed NEW DIRECTIONS series on women's empowerment in developing countries, SPEAKING OUT prese...

Sphinxes Without Secrets
A film by Maria Beatty, 1991, 58 min., Color
Since its inception, performance art provided a forum for those artists whose work challenges the dominant aesthetic and cultural status quo. In SPHIN...

A Spy in the House that Ruth Built
A film by Vanalyne Green, 1989, 29 min., Color
Vanalyne Green appropriates the all-male arena of professional baseball to create a visual essay about family, loss, and sexuality. Confronted with su...

Standing on My Sisters' Shoulders
A film by Joan Sadoff, Dr. Robert Sadoff and Laura J. Lipson, 2002, 60 min., Color/BW
In 1965, when three women walked into the US House of Representatives in Washington D.C., they had come a very long way. Neither lawyers nor politicia...

A State of Danger
A film by Haim Bresheeth and Jenny Morgan, 1989, 28 min., Color
Shot in Israel and the Occupied Territories, this extraordinary documentary offers a unique, vital perspective on the Intifada seldom seen in U.S. mai...

Step by Step: Building a Feminist Movement, 1941-1977
A film by Joyce Follet, 1998, 56 min., Color
"****Proving beyond a doubt that feminism began well before the 1960s, and that its players were not just the white middle class, this inspiring tape ...

Stephanie
A film by Peggy Stern, 1986, 58 min., Color/BW
Following the filmmaker's teenage neighbor through six pivotal years of her life, Stephanie documents her dreams and disappointments through adolescen...

Stigmata
A film by Leslie Asako Gladsjø, 1991, 27 min., Color
STIGMATA is a riveting look at body modification such as tattooing, cutting, piercing and branding, practices which are becoming increasingly popular ...

Storme
A film by Michelle Parkerson, 1987, 21 min., Color
“It ain’t easy…being green” is the favorite expression of Storme DeLarverie, a woman whose life flouted prescriptions of gender and race. During the ...

Subrosa
A film by Helen Lee, 2000, 22 min., Color
SUBROSA traces a young woman's journey to Korea, the land of her birth, to find the mother she's never known. This exquisitely crafted drama probes th...

Suffragettes in the Silent Cinema
A Film by Kay Sloan, 2003, 35 min., Color/BW
In the days before movies could talk, silent films spoke clearly of sexual politics, and in Suffragettes in the Silent Cinema, historian and wr...

Summer of the Serpent
A film by Kimi Takesue, 2004, 27 min., Color
This beautiful short drama exquisitely explores the unlikely bond that develops between two people from different worlds. Eight-year old Juliette sits...

Surname Viet Given Name Nam
Assoc. produced by Jean-Paul Bourdier
Directed by Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1989, 108 min., Color
Of marriage and loyalty: “Daughter, she obeys her father/ Wife, she obeys her husband/ Widow, she obeys her son.” ...

Surviva
A film by Carol Clement and Ariel Dougherty, 1980, 32 min.
A refreshing weave of documentary, animation and nature montage examining the woman artist's relationship to work and community. An Artemisia and Wome...

Susana
A film by Susana Blaustein, 1980, 25 min., BW
In this autobiographical portrait, Susana leaves her native Argentina to live her life outside the strictures of Latin American cultural and family pr...

Sweating Indian Style
A film by Susan Smith, 1994, 57 min., Color
The appropriation of Native American traditions by non-Natives comes under thoughtful scrutiny in this insightful documentary. As it follows the New A...

Sweet Power
A film by Lúcia Murat, 1996, 98 min., Color
During a tumultuous political campaign, veteran broadcast journalist Bia takes over as news director of a major television network. Amidst multiple c...

Sync Touch
A film by Barbara Hammer
In SYNC TOUCH, lesbian images are juxtaposed with common cliches, providing an ironic and humorous inquiry into the nature of the lesbian aesthetic....

Syvilla
A film by Ayoka Chenzira, 1979, 15 min.
A portrait of Syvilla Fort focusing on the beauty of her choreography, the virtuosity of her dancing, and her role as teacher of a generation of Afric...

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A Tale of Love
A film by Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1995, 108 min., Color
Portraying the Vietnamese immigrant experience through Kieu, A TALE OF LOVE follows the quest of a woman in love with ‘Love’. The film is loosely ins...

Ten Cents a Dance (Parallax)
A film by Midi Onodera, 1986, 30 min., Color
Onodera's three-part reflection on contemporary sexuality and communication uses a split screen device with a new twist. In the first segment, two wom...

Tender Fictions
A film by Barbara Hammer, 1995, 58 min., Color
Innovative, funny, and historic, TENDER FICTIONS is an autobiographical exploration of the search for and meaning of gay community. From a childhood ...

Terra Nullius
A film by Anne Pratten, 1992, 21 min., Color/BW
TERRA NULLIUS evolved as part of a response by a generation of Australian Aborigines to the government’s assimilationist policies which removed childr...

Thank God I'm a Lesbian
A film by Laurie Colbert and Dominique Cardona, 1992, 55 min., Color
THANK GOD I'M A LESBIAN is an uplifting and entertaining documentary about the diversity of lesbian identities. Dionne Brand, Nicole Brossard, Lee Pu...

That Paradise Will Be Mine
A film by Merel Beernink, 2005, 54 min., Color
Why would a woman in one of the most liberal Western European countries choose to become a Muslim and faithfully follow the demands of her new convict...

Theatre Girls
A film by Kim Longinotto and Claire Pollak, 1978, 56 min., BW
In her final piece at film school, Longinotto and her partner take us into the "Theatre Girls Club" in Soho, London–a hostel for elderly and destitute...

There Was An Unseen Cloud, Moving
Leslie Thornton, 60 min.
A deft and intentionally fragmented "biography" of Isabelle Eberhardt, a Victorian traveler who, dressed as an Arab man, became a Moslem and a writer ...

These Girls
A film by Tahani Rached, 2006, 68 min., Color
Screened to audiences at the Cannes, Toronto, and New York film festivals, this fresh, irresistibly lively, intensely engaging documentary from widely...

They Are Their Own Gifts
A film by Lucille Rhodes and Margaret Murphy, 1978, 52 min., 3 in series, Color
A three volume set of film portraits--Muriel Rukeyser, Alice Neel and Anna Sokolow. The poetry, painting, and dance of these three women is not artis...

They Call Me Muslim
A film by Diana Ferrero, 2006, 27 min., Color
In popular Western imagination, a Muslim woman in a veil – or hijab – is a symbol of Islamic oppression. But what does it mean for women’s freedom whe...

This is Not Living
A film by Alia Arasoughly, 2001, 42 min., Color
Directed by Alia Arasoughly – a Palestinian filmmaker living in war-torn Ramallah – this deeply moving piece explores the lives of eight Palestinian w...

3 Times Divorced
A film by Ibtisam Salh Mara'ana, 2007, 74 min., Color
How does a Palestinian woman in Israel survive an abusive husband? When Gaza-born Khitam’s abusive Arab Israeli husband divorces her and gains custody...

Thriller
A film by Sally Potter, 1979, 34 min., BW
Since its release in 1980, Sally Potter's rewriting of Puccini's opera, La Boheme, has become a classic in feminist film theory. A model for the decon...

Through Chinese Women's Eyes
A film by Mayfair Yang, 1997, 52 min., Color
THROUGH CHINESE WOMEN'S EYES offers an insightful journey into the transformations in the lives of Chinese women over the 20th century. In a fascinat...

Through the Milky Way
A film by Yunah Hong, 1992, 19 min., Color
This experimental videotape focuses on a Korean woman's experience of emigrating to Hawaii at the turn of the century and her sense of displacement ar...

Through the Skin
A film by Elyse Montague, 2002, 18 min., Color/BW
In this highly personal experimental autobiography, emerging filmmaker Elyse Montague presents a daring meditation on the experience and trauma of gro...

Thunder in Guyana
A film by Suzanne Wasserman, 2003, 50 min., Color/BW
THUNDER IN GUYANA is the remarkable tale of Janet Jagan, a young woman from Chicago who married Guyanese activist Cheddi Jagan, and set off for the Br...

Ticket of No Return
A film by Ulrike Ottinger, 1979, 108 min., Color
A portrait of two unusual but also extremely different women. One rich, eccentric, hiding her feelings behind a rigid mask, consciously drinks hersel...

Tiger Spirit
A film by Min Sook Lee, 2008, 78 min., Color
Korea is a divided nation. Millions of families were split apart in the 1950s when war broke out between the Soviet-occupied North and the American-co...

Tillie Olsen - A Heart in Action
A film by Ann Hershey, 2007, 66 min., Color
This revelatory documentary is an inspiring homage to Tillie Lerner Olsen – a renegade, revolutionary, distinguished fiction and non-fiction writer, f...

To See If I'm Smiling (Lir’ot Im Ani Mehayechet)
A film by Tamar Yarom, 2007, 59 min., Color
Israel is the only country in the world where 18-year-old girls are drafted for compulsory military service. In this award-winning documentary, the fr...

Tomboys!
A film by Julie Akeret and Christian McEwen, 2004, 28 min., Color
Are tomboys tamed once they grow up? This lively and inspiring documentary explodes that archaic myth with the stories of proud tomboys of all ages: A...

Toxic Trespass
A film by Barri Cohen, 2007, 53 min., Color
When Canadian filmmaker Barri Cohen discovers that her ten-year-old daughter’s blood carries carcinogens like benzene and the long-banned DDT, she tra...

Trade Secrets
A film by Stephanie Antalocy, 1985, 23 min., Color
Perfect as a training tape or as an historical look at labor issues in the 1980s, TRADE SECRETS has been purchased by hundreds of colleges, libraries,...

Transnational Tradeswomen
A film by Vivian Price, 2006, 62 min., Color
Inspired by organizers at the Beijing Conference on Women in 1995, former construction worker Vivian Price spent years documenting the current and his...

Tree Shade
A film by Lisa Collins, 1998, 29 min., Color/BW
Shame and embarrassment propel Savannah, a gifted high school student, to embark on a journey through space and time to witness the prison convictions...

Treyf
A film by Alisa Lebow and Cynthia Madansky, 1998, 55 min., Color
TREYF —“unkosher” in Yiddish— is an unorthodox documentary by and about two Jewish lesbians who met and fell in love at a Passover “seder”. With perso...

Trick or Drink
A film by Vanalyne Green, 1985, 20 min., Color
Vanalyne Green's childhood world, growing up with alcoholic parents, is recreated through crayon drawings, family albums, excerpts from her adolescent...

The Trickle Down Theory of Sorrow
A film by Mary Filippo, 2002, 15 min., Color
Veteran experimental filmmaker Mary Filippo tackles issues of work, class and gender roles in this visually captivating and provocative autobiographic...

Troop 1500
A film by Ellen Spiro & Karen Bernstein, 2005, 68 min., Color
Their mothers may be convicted thieves, murderers and drug dealers, but the girls of Troop 1500 want to be doctors, social workers and marine biologis...

Troubled Harvest
A film by Sharon Genasci and Dorothy Velasco, 1990, 30 min., Color
This award-winning documentary examines the lives of women migrant workers from Mexico and Central America as they work in grape, strawberry and cherr...

24 Girls
A film by Eva Ilona Brzeski, 1998, 29 min., Color
Set on the borderland between childhood and adolescence, between dream and reality, Eva Ilona Brzeski’s 24 GIRLS presents fleeting glimpses of girls o...

Two Lies
A film by Pam Tom, 1989, 25 min., BW
Doris Chu, a recently divorced Chinese American woman, has plastic surgery to make her eyes rounder. From her teenage daughter Mei's perspective, her ...

2 Or 3 Things But Nothing for Sure
A film by Tina DiFeliciantonio and Jane C. Wagner, 1997, 12 min., Color
Acclaimed author Dorothy Allison (BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA) is profiled in this moving, inspiring film. Combining poetic imagery with powerful readings...

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Underexposed
A film by Kathy High, 1992, 72 min., Color
Combining drama and documentary, UNDEREXPOSED: THE TEMPLE OF THE FETUS is a savvy and creative probe into high-tech baby-making. The fictional framew...

Unfinished Diary
A film by Marilu Mallet, 1986, 55 min., Color
In this moving docudrama, Chilean emigre Mallet struggles to make a film about her experience of profound isolation. Her English speaking husband, a p...

Up in the Sky: Tracey Moffatt in New York
A film by Jane Cole, 1999, 26 min., Color
UP IN THE SKY scans the universe created by the provocative and talented photographer and filmmaker Tracey Moffatt, Australia's answer to Cindy Sherma...

Update Brazil
A film by Nancy Marcotte and Colette Loumede, 1986, 15 min., Color
Brazil, like most countries, has a high incidence of domestic violence and sexual assault. Too often, institutions set up to deal with these crimes ar...

Uphill All the Way
A film by Khin May Lwin and Robert Nassau, 2000, 80 min., Color
UPHILL ALL THE WAY is the astounding true story of five troubled teenage girls who face the challenge of their lives: a 2,500-mile bicycle journey al...

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The Veiled Hope
A film by Norma Marcos, 1994, 55 min., Color
THE VEILED HOPE explores the personal and political challenges facing Palestinian women through a series of wonderful portraits of women living on the...

Ventre Livre
A film by Ana Luiza Azevedo, 1995, 45 min., 3 in series, Color
VENTRE LIVRE paints a grim picture of reproductive rights for millions of women in Brazil today. One in every four women of child-bearing age has bee...

The Vienna Tribunal
A film by Gerry Rogers, 1994, 48 min., Color
Highlights of moving personal testimonies at the Global Tribunal on Violations of Women's Rights-held in conjunction with U.N. World Conference on Hum...

Visions of the Spirit
A film by Elena Featherston, 1989, 58 min., Color
This intimate and inspiring portrait of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker explores the compassion, insight and strength that have made her on...

Visitors of the Night
A film by An van Dienderen, 1998, 34 min., Color
The failures of the ethnographic endeavor to discover “reality” are revealed in this expository and experimental film. The narrator-ethnographer emba...

Voices Heard Sisters Unseen
A film by Grace Poore, 1995, 75 min., Color
VOICES HEARD SISTERS UNSEEN is a powerful and inspirational videotape showing how survivors of domestic violence are working to change the way the sys...

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Waking Up to Rape
A film by Meri Weingarten, 1985, 35 min., Color
"If I were to choose only one film on sexual assault to show to a class or to the general public, I would select WAKING UP TO RAPE. This is a powerful...

The Walnut Tree
A film by Elida Schogt, 2000, 11 min., Color
Through a striking combination of documentary and experimental approaches, THE WALNUT TREE examines Holocaust memory, the family, and the role of phot...

War on Lesbians
A film by Jane Cottis, 1992, 32 min., Color
WAR ON LESBIANS is a witty critique of the invisibility of positive images of lesbians and a satire of talk show television and radio self-help progra...

War Takes
A film by Adelaida Trujillo and Patricia Castaño, 2002, 78 min., Color
With conflicts raging on nearly every continent, war now regularly transcends the battlefield into everyday life—whether its increased security at air...

Warrior Marks
A film by Pratibha Parmar
Executive produced by Alice Walker, 1993, 54 min., Color
WARRIOR MARKS is a poetic and political film about female genital mutilation from the director of A PLACE OF RAGE, presented by the Pulitzer Prize win...

Wavelengths
A film by Pratibha Parmar, 1997, 15 min., Color
WAVELENGTHS explores the time honored quest for love and human intimacy in the polished world of computers and the Internet. Set in gay bars, dreams,...

We Want Roses Too (Vogliamo Anche Le Rose)
A film by Alina Marazzi, 2007, 84 min., Color
This stunning visual masterpiece is an exuberant testament to the resolve of women of the ’60s and ’70s sexual revolution and feminist movement in Ita...

What My Mother Told Me
A film by Frances-Anne Solomon, 1995, 57 min., Color/BW
Exquisitely beautiful and profoundly moving, WHAT MY MOTHER TOLD ME is a dramatic journey towards self discovery. The story focuses on Jesse, a young...

What You Take for Granted
A film by Michelle Citron, 1983, 75 min., Color
The tentative friendship of Anna, a feisty truck driver and Diana, an upper middle-class doctor, provides the core for an unusual, intimate and moving...

When Abortion Was Illegal
Produced by Dorothy Fadiman, 1992, 28 min., 3 in series, Color
"Until recently, the era of illegal abortion has been a 'sealed chapter' in U.S. women's history. The aura of shame surrounding unwanted pregnancies a...

Who’s Going to Pay for These Donuts, Anyway?
A film by Janice Tanaka, 1992, 58 min., Color
A brilliant collage of interviews, family photographs, archival footage and personal narration, this videotape documents Japanese American video artis...

Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker?
A film by Barbara Caspar, 2008, 84 min., Color
A multi-layered work featuring animation, archival footage and interviews with the likes of William Burroughs, Carolee Schneemann and Richard Hell,

Why Women Stay
A film by Jacqueline Shortell-McSweeney and Debra Zimmerman, 1980, 30 min., BW
This documentary examines the complex reasons why women remain in violent homes and challenges the prevailing attitudes which accept domestic violence...

Witches, Dykes, Faggots and Poofters
A film by Digby Duncan, 1979, 45 min.
In medieval times, nonconformists were labeled witches and burned at the stake. This important film makes links the social and political oppression o...

With a Vengeance
A film by Lori Hiris, 1989, 40 min., BW
This urgent and timely film is a history of the struggle for reproductive freedom since the 1960s, reflecting the wider history of the contemporary wo...

Woman Being
A film by Wen-Jie Qin, 1997, 20 min., Color
In a critical examination of changing concepts of beauty and sexuality in modern China, WOMAN BEING illustrates how a flood of Western pop culture is...

Womanhouse
A film by Johanna Demetrakas, 1974, 47 min., Color
WOMANHOUSE is an historic documentary about one of the most important feminist cultural events of the 1970s. Judy Chicago (best-known as the creator ...

A Woman's Word
A film by Silvia G. Ponzoda, 2004, 52 min., Color
Beautiful and intimate, A WOMAN'S WORD depicts the life and writings of three exceptional authors of the Arab word – Nawal Al Saadawi from Egypt, Hana...

Women Filmmakers in Russia
A film by Sally Potter, 1990, 51 min., Color
Since Lenin's fervent embrace of cinema in the 1920s, more women have worked in the film industry in Russia than in the west. This fascinating docume...

Women in Politics
A six-part series by Lowri Gwilym, 1989, 240 min., 6 in series, Color
Produced by BBC Television, WOMEN IN POLITICS is a major international series of documentaries about women politicians. Profiles of six women who run...

Women in Struggle
A film by Buthina Canaan Khoury, 2004, 56 min., Color
WOMEN IN STRUGGLE presents rare testimony from four female Palestinian ex-detainees who disclose their experiences during their years of imprisonment ...

Women Like Us
A film by Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri, 2002, 60 min., Color
Filmmaker Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri returns to Iran after 20 years as an expatriate to present this intimate and revealing portrait of five ordinary Iran...

The Women Next Door
A film by Michal Aviad, 1992, 80 min., Color
THE WOMEN NEXT DOOR is a thoughtful and emotive documentary about women in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Israeli director Michal Aviad was living...

New Directions: Women of Guatemala
A film by Joanne Burke, 2000, 26 min., Color
Part of the new generation of Mayan women, Maria Del Carmen Chavajay and Micaela Chavajay, are two sisters who head the Health Promoter Group of San P...

Women of Niger
A film by Anne Laure Folly, 1993, 26 min., Color
Niger is a traditionally Islamic country where authorized polygamy and Muslim fundamentalism clash with the country’s struggle for democracy. In elec...

Women of Steel
A film by Mon Valley Media, 1984, 28 min., Color
For women who entered the nation's steel mills in the 1970s, the mill was a ticket out of traditionally low-paying "women's jobs" and in some cases, o...

New Directions: Women of Thailand
A film by Joanne Burke, 1997, 26 min., Color
In Klong Toey, Bangkok's largest slum, Duang Prateep, a foundation created and run entirely by women provides empowering choices and role models to th...

New Directions: Women of Zimbabwe
A film by Joanne Burke, 1997, 145 min., 5 in series, Color
From award-winning documentarian Joanne Burke's series about women's empowerment in developing countries, WOMEN OF ZIMBABWE focuses on a group of fiv...

Women Organize!
A film by Joan E. Biren, Union Institute Ctr. for Women & Women and Organizing Documentation Project, 2000, 32 min., Color
WOMEN ORGANIZE! is an inspirational, half hour video that portrays women organizers across the U.S. who are involved in the global struggles for racia...

Women Who Made the Movies
A film by Gwendolyn Foster and Wheeler Dixon, 1992, 55 min., Color/BW
WOMEN WHO MADE THE MOVIES traces the careers and films of such pioneer women filmmakers as Alice Guy Blaché, Ruth Ann Baldwin, Ida Lupino, Leni Riefen...

Women: The New Poor
A film by Bea Milwe, 1990, 28 min., Color
Divorced women and single mothers who lack skills and opportunities for economic self-sufficiency represent the alarming feminization of poverty in th...

The Women’s Kingdom
A film by Xiaoli Zhou, Produced by Xiaoli Zhou & Brent E. Huffman, 2006, 22 min., Color
Keepers of one of the last matriarchal societies in the world, Mosuo women in a remote area of southwest China live beyond the strictures of mainstrea...

Women's Lives and Choices
Produced by Daniel Riesenfeld for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 1995, 200 min., 3 in series, Color
This important and timely series deals with women's health and the social, cultural and economic factors underlying reproductive choices. VENTRE LIVR...

A Word in Edgewise
A film by Heather MacLeod, 1986, 26 min., Color
"A truly articulate, unaffected statement about a basic human activity, this excellent video explains the role of language in shaping behavior. It is ...

Writing Desire
A film by Ursula Biemann, 2000, 23 min., Color
"Ursula Biemann’s WRITING DESIRE is a video essay on the new dream screen of the Internet and how it impacts on the global circulation of women’s bodi...

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The Yellow Wallpaper
A film by Marie Ashton, 1977, 14 min., Color
This short dramatic film brings to life the classic Charlotte Perkins Gilman story of the same name, which has become an important addition to America...

Your Children Come Back to You
A film by Alile Sharon Larkin, 1979, 27 min., BW
Alile Sharon Larkin's first film is a contemporary allegory about values and assimilation. The film literalizes the meaning of a "mother country" by m...

Your Name in Cellulite
A film by Gail Noonan, 1995, 6 min., Color
A wickedly funny satire about the disparity between a woman's natural beauty and the ideal promoted by the mega-billion dollar advertising industry, t...

Yuri Kochiyama: Passion for Justice
A film by Pat Saunders and Rea Tajiri, 1994, 57 min., Color
Yuri Kochiyama is a Japanese American woman who has lived in Harlem for more than 40 years with a long history of activism on a wide range of issues. ...

Zyklon Portrait
A film by Elida Schogt, 1999, 13 min., Color
A Holocaust film without Holocaust imagery, ZYKLON PORTRAIT combines archival instructional films with family snapshots, home movies, underwater photo...

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