India: A Dangerous Place to Be a Woman
In December 2012, a young medical student was brutally gang-raped on board a bus in Delhi. Horrified by the attack, 28-year-old British Asian Radha Bedi travels to India to uncover the reality of life for young women there. Radha has been to India b...
Transcending Gender: Portraits from the Community
If the challenges and complexities of a transgendered lifestyle are hard for some people to identify with, firsthand accounts of those experiences may be the best means of creating more understanding. This program features real-world portraits of in...
Race and sex : what we think (but can't say)
Behind the conscious mind’s efforts to judge people on their merits, the subconscious categorizes by details such as gender, race, and age - just as it has done since the dawn of humankind. Can ethnic prejudice be overcome? What is the “stereoty...
Sexy Inc.: A Critical Look at the Hypersexualization of Childhood
The eroticization and physical objectification that are staples of the youth-focused business/media complex give the impression that exploitative, age-inappropriate sexuality is natural, normal, and even necessary. This documentary condemns the hype...
UnSlut: A Documentary Film
Through the stories of five North American women and interviews with sexuality experts, advocates, and media figures, UnSlut: A Documentary Film explores the causes and devastating effects of sexual shaming and offers immediate and long-term goals f...
Killing Us Softly 3
Jean Kilbourne continues her groundbreaking analysis of advertising's depiction of women in this most recent update of her pioneering Killing Us Softly series. In fascinating detail, Kilbourne decodes an array of print and television advertisements ...
Killing us softly 4: advertising's image of women
In this new, highly anticipated update of her pioneering Killing Us Softly series, the first in more than a decade, Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity. The film marshals a ...