Womens Rights Movies

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

Risking jobs, friends, family and the opposition of church and community, eight unassuming women begin the longest bank strike in American history.

After failing to get a taxi, Jane is forced to walk home alone after a night out with friends. Encountering a group of men at an underpass, she change...

In the Arab world, women are fighting a two-front war against repressive internal constraints and intrusive Western interference. In this program, a f...

Angélica has spent her whole life escaping from her mixed racial identity, but a family crisis forces her to return to Puerto Rico and rethink her lif...

This movie was produced by the beauty brand Lancome and fashion magazine Marie Claire’s collaboration to celebrate International Women’s Day on March...

Bookended by call-to-action quotes from Margaret Mead and Mahatma Gandhi, this inspiring documentary follows three extraordinary women -- in Bosnia-He...

50 years ago, assemblyman George Michaels cast a single vote on New York's abortion bill that changed the course of American history but destroyed his...

To achieve women's rights and gender equality, these three pioneers were willing to risk their livelihood and their future, as well as their reputatio...

In the years following the Civil Rights movement and the passage of Title IX in 1972, Dr. Donnis Thompson (a headstrong African-American female coach)...

"Not Done: Women Remaking America" chronicles the seismic eruption of women's organizing from the 2016 election through today, and the intersectional...

In the near future, when getting an abortion has once again become a criminal offense, Kara is confronted by a grim and brutal reality. Even though ob...

After their mother's femicide, three siblings are separated and forced to live in different places. Years later they gather to raise their voices and...

Born in Ukraine in 2008 in the wake of the "Orange Revolution," the feminist movement Femen fights for democracy, freedom of the press, women's rights...

The words of the women and the rhythm of their lives in the seclusion of family compounds suggests both the satisfying and the limiting aspects of a w...

Terrified of stories of girls bleeding to death, young Tanzanian children face a terrible choice: whether to submit to female genital mutilation and c...

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

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

Nepal's Civil War ended in 2006, but not for Devi; rebel warrior, mother and sexual violence survivor. As those in power try to erase rape from the hi...