A Boy Named Sue
This film documents the transformation of a female-to-male transsexual named Theo over the course of six years, highlighting changes in his relationships with his female partner and close friends. The film successfully c..
A Girl Like Her
From 1945-73, 1.5 million unmarried young American women, facing enormous social pressures, surrendered babies to adoption. Lacking sex education and easy access to birth control, they were forced into hiding while pregn..
A Healthy Baby Girl
In 1963 filmmaker Judith Helfand's mother was prescribed the ineffective, carcinogenic synthetic hormone diethylstilbestrol (DES), meant to prevent miscarriage and ensure a healthy baby. At twenty-five, Judith was diagno..
A Place of Rage
This exuberant celebration of African American women and their achievements features interviews with Angela Davis, June Jordan and Alice Walker. Within the context of the civil rights, Black power and feminist movements,..
A Woman's Word
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, Hanan Al Shaykh from Lebanon, and Janata Bennuna from Morocco. For all t..
AS I REMEMBER IT: A Portrait of Dorothy West
This intimate portrait of writer Dorothy West explores the forgotten role of women in the Harlem Renaissance. From the perspective of her 83 years, the still active writer relates her memories of growing up African Ameri..
Abuelas: Grandmothers on a Mission
In 1985, the Academy Award® nominated film Abuelas: Grandmothers on a Mission profiled the Argentinian mothers’ movement to demand to know the fate of 30,000 “disappeared” sons and daughters. Now three decades lat..
Afghanistan Unveiled
Filmed by the first ever team of women video journalists trained in Afghanistan, this rare and uncompromising film explores the effects of the Taliban's repressive rule and recent U.S.-sponsored bombing campaign on Afgha..
Africa is a Woman's Name
This documentary provides an opportunity for three of Africa's leading filmmakers to tell their own country's stories through the lives of the powerful women working to create change. Veteran filmmakers Wanjiru Kinyanjui..
Ana Mendieta : Fuego de Tierra
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 nature, and Afro-Cuban religion to express her feminist political consc..