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Video Collection
Stop by the Women's Studies Program Office (CLS 2096) to check out any of these films.
1. Abortion for Survival This 1989 video reviews the need for safe, legal, and accessible abortion worldwide, highlighting the lack of access to affordable contraception and women's desire to limit their family size.
2. Absolutely Safe (83 minutes) An open-minded personal approach to the controversy over breast implant safety. Ultimately, Absolutely Safe is the story of everyday women who find themselves and their breasts in the tangled and confusing intersection of health, money, science and beauty.
3. AIDS in Africa (52 minutes) This video describes the war on AIDS in Africa. It explores how the disease cuts across the entire population, affecting men and women of reproductive age and their children, striking a continent already wracked by underdevelopment, civil strife and corruption.
4. AIDS Quilt This film won the 1989 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Friends and family tell the stories of five disparate individuals whose lives are lovingly represented by panels in the NAMES Projects AIDS Memorial Quilt.
5. Amelia Earhart: Queen of the Air A film based on the life experiences of Amelia Earhart, who was the first women to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
6. And Still I Rise (30 minutes) A film inspired by one of Maya Angelou’s poems, showing how African-American women deal with myths of their sexuality and how they suffer historical and contemporary stereotypes by the media.
7. Angel Makers (The) (34 minutes) This films reconstructs the arsenic murders in the Hungarian countryside, after the First World War. Over 140 bodies were discovered. The victims, all men, were apparently killed by their wives. The townspeople talk about the conditions the women lived in, which hasn’t changed much since then.
8. Art of Documentary Filmmaking (The) (120 minutes) This film follows 12 Burmese budding filmmakers who attend a pioneering workshop, filming stories from real life. Over the course of 21 days, they had learned how to handle the equipment, grappled with the artistic and ethical aspects of the genre, and researched, written and filmed four short documentary portraits inspired by the subject of ‘Women in Myanmar.’
9. Be Fruitful & Multiply (50 minutes) - The film profiles four ultra-orthodox Jewish women in the U.S. and Israel. Each of the women discuss their belief in the traditional and distinctive roles for women and men dictated by Jewish religion as well as on the condition of motherhood as the “natural” and desirable state for women.
10. Benning, Sadie (50 minutes) - At age 15, Sadie Benning began using a toy video camera to produce these frank, funny and remarkably self-aware missives about growing up lesbian.
11. Betty Tells Her Story (20 minutes) - A film that focuses on Betty as she tells about the excitement and anxiety surrounding the purchase of her dress for the ball.
12. Beyond Beijing (60 minutes) - A documentary produced by women about the largest meeting of women (over 30,000 activists) in world history, the Non-Governmental Organizations Forum on Women in Huairou, China, in September 1995.
13. Beyond Disability: The Fe Fe Stories (26 minutes) - The Empowered Fe Fes (slang for female), a group of young women with disabilities, hit the streets of Chicago on a quest to discover the difference between how they see themselves and how others see them. They grapple with issues as diverse as access, education, employment, sexuality and growing up with disabilities. VHS/DVD
14. Bionic Beauty Salon (22 minutes) In this vivid narrative Gretchen Stoeltje gives us witness to the crux of women's contemporary heroism. The six adolescents who are seen throughout testify to their strategies for achieving power, and the dangers in cultural standards for beauty.
15. Born in Flames (90 minutes) Set in America ten years after the Second American Revolution, Born in Flames is a comic fantasy of female rebellion. When Adelaide Norris, the black radical founder of the Woman's Army, is mysteriously killed, a seemingly impossible coalition of women - across all lines of race, class, and sexual preference - emerges to blow the System apart.
16. Breaking Silence (30 minutes) The definitive film on incest and child sexual abuse. Personal stories told by survivors and their families, woven with telling drawings by abused children, give viewers a realistic understanding of how incest destroys trust and bonding and limits the lives of its victims. Breaking Silence celebrates survivors who are finding the courage to "break silence" and regain their lives.
17. Breaking Through: Women in Science (29 minutes) A film exploring the lives of scientists who work as a mechanical engineer, biomedical scientist and a physicist.
18. Bullshit (73 minutes) In this documentary, we follow environmental activist and nuclear physicist Vandana Shiva over a period of two years, as she battles with the proponents of globalization and multi-national corporations accused of depleting and contaminating groundwater in India.
19. (A) Century of Women – Series of 3 – Image and Popular Culture, Sexuality and Social Justice & Work and Family (95 mins each) – Every generation has a story to tell. This landmark program tells the story of women in the 20th Century – how they lived, loved, worked, played and most importantly, changed the course of American history.
20. Coffee Colored Children (15 minutes) This lyrical, unsettling film conveys the experience of children of mixed racial heritage. Suffering the aggression of racial harassment, a young girl and her brother attempt to wash their skin white with scouring powder. Starkly emotional and visually compelling, this semi autobiographical testimony to the profound internalized effects of racism and the struggle for self definition and pride is a powerful catalyst for discussion.
21. Cruel and Unusual (65 minutes) This is the story of five transgender women, interwoven with commentary by lawyers and prison custodians who provide enlightening discourse on the dangers that transgender inmates face.
22. Cultural Criticism & Transformation (62 minutes) Bell Hooks is one of America's most accessible public intellectuals. In Part One (26 min), Hooks discusses the theoretical foundations and positions that inform her work, such as the motivated nature of representations, as well as their power in social and cultural life. In Part Two (40 min), she demonstrates the value of cultural studies in concrete analysis by dealing with subjects such as the OJ Simpson case, Madonna, Spike Lee and Gangsta Rap (2 VHS’s - 1 VHS Part 1 & 2; 1 VHS Part 1).
23. CUT: Teens and Self Injury (55 minutes) CUT provides an intimate look at a largely unacknowledged problem that affects thousands of young people, their families and friends. Using words, music and artwork of the teens themselves, the director draws back the curtain on the sensationalism and secrecy surrounding the cycle of self-harm and brings this hidden issue into sharp, clear focus.
24. Defending Our Lives (42 minutes) An Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary Short about the magnitude and severity of domestic violence in this country. The film features four women imprisoned for killing their batterers and their terrifying personal testimonies.
25. Doin’ It: Sex, Disability & Videotape (35 minutes) This film is a daring and humorous investigation into the uncharted intersection between disability and sexuality. The Empowered Fe Fes educate themselves from many angles by talking with activists, educators and scholars, challenging the notion that people with disabilities are not fully sexual beings. DVD
26. Double Burden (56 minutes) Double Burden vividly portrays the lives of three
families--one Mexican-American, one Polish-American, and one African-American--each with three generations of women who worked outside the home while also raising families. The film instills tremendous respect for the accomplishments of women and for women of different races, social classes and life-styles.
27. Dream Worlds 3 (55 minutes) This film examines the stories contemporary music videos tell girls and women, and encourages viewers to consider how these narratives shape individual and cultural attitudes about sexuality.
28. Dreams of Equality (28 minutes) A documentary drama that chronicles the early struggles of the Women's Rights Movement. It recreates the First Women’s Right Convention held in 1848 and addresses issues of martial, financial and political equity, traditional women’s roles and education opportunities for girls.
29. Drug Mules: Women Who Take the “Rap” (30 minutes) A film that exposes the plight of poor, uneducated women, who do not understand English and who inadvertently become carriers of drugs into the United States. Drug Mules shows that the law must be changed to distinguish between hardened drug lords and the naïve women they exploit.
30. Epilogue: The Palpable Invisibility of Life (14 minutes) Reflects about life and death in this moving video about motherhood and mourning.
31. F-Word (The) (10 minutes) The F-Word is a provocative look at the power of the word 'feminism' in the US. Pithy interviews with women and men from diverse backgrounds are rhythmically intercut with computer-animated quotes from the likes of Barbara Smith to Pat Robertson, all set to an upbeat rap accompaniment. 2 VHSs/1 DVD
32. Feminism: Controversies, Challenges, Actions (29 minutes) Filmmaker Rebecca Haimowitz interviews those who helped conceptualize the Scholar & Feminist Conference from its earliest days. Their colorful remembrances provide not only a glimpse into the development of a nationally recognized academic endeavor, but also a vivid and thought-provoking history of three decades of feminist movements in America and abroad.
33. (A) Fine and Long Tradition (7 minutes) Over 135 historical images, from family albums and archives across the country are set to an upbeat song that will touch your heart and linger in your memory.
34. (A) Fish Almost Eaten by a Shark (17 minutes) A 17-year-old soccer playing Latina incorporates the voices of her gay and lesbian peers and compelling statistics to paint a sobering picture of school and family life for GLBT youth. This video is an excellent discussion starter for school and organization settings to raise awareness of diversity issues.
35. Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman (360 minutes – consists of 6 one-hour chapters, 3 DVDs) A six-part series that takes a personal approach to female life in the 21st century. Over intimate conversations around the kitchen tables from South America to Russia, India and Pakistan, the film initiates a groundbreaking dialogue among women, illuminating universal concerns across race, class and nationality.
36. Forbidden Love (85 minutes) Compelling, often hilarious and always rebellious, nine women paint a portrait of lesbian sexuality against a backdrop of tabloid headlines, book covers and dramatizations from lesbian pulp novels.
37. Freedom Is Contagious (40 minutes) - Freedom is Contagious explores the early history of the women’s movement that grew in the 1960s and 1970s, focusing especially on the interconnections with Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). VHS/DVD
38. Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker (48 minutes) A film about Ella Baker, a pioneering organizer in the civil rights movement.
39. Further Off the Straight and Narrow (61 minutes) A compelling and nuanced examination of television’s portrayal of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people.
40. Gay Women -- From ABC’s 20/20
41. Gentle Birth Choices (46 minutes) An educational film based on the experiences of six women expressing about how or where they choose to give child birth. Discussion of various ways to giving child birth such as cesarean, standing, squatting, home birth or water birth.
42. Girl House Art Project (16 minutes) YWCA Santa Monica/Westside Volunteer, Kesa Kivel, offered a broad-based feminist curriculum in an interactive format to a small group of middle school girls. For their art instillation, the girls transformed an on-site house into a bedroom of a girl who is being sexually harassed, artistically expressing her worries, fears and potential consequences. 2 DVDs
43. Girl Trouble (74 minutes) A documentary film based on three teenage girls who face poverty, domestic, violence, drug addiction and homelessness and who are entangled in San Francisco’s failing juvenile system. The girls tell their own stories and give insight rarely heard about girls in trouble.
44. Girls Like Us (60 minutes) An Emmy award winning film chronicles the lives of four working class girls. Filmed in South Philadelphia and following its subjects from the ages of 14 to 18, Girls Like Us reveals the conflicts of growing females by examining the impact of class, sexism, and violence on the dreams and expectations of young girls.
45. Global Assembly Line (58 minutes) From Mexico to the Philippines and back into the USA, Global Assembly Line takes viewers inside the new global economy. The filmmakers vividly portray the lives of women in the free trade zone of the Third World as US industries search the global for lower-wage workforces.
46. Going Farther Out Of Our Minds (90 minutes) Radical feminist Sonia Johnson in a 1986 talk at the University of California lays out her challenging, funny, often outrageous vision of patriarchy and its cures.
47. Granny D. Goes to Washington (27 minutes) Chronicles the extraordinary march across the U.S. by political activist, Doris Haddock. Passionate about democracy, she walked about 3,200 miles from California to Washington, D.C. to dramatize the need to restore representative government in America and reduce the role of special interest money in politics.
48. Great Health Service Swindle (The) (26 minutes) The health services of this richer countries are hugely dependent on doctors and nurses from developing countries, attracted by better salaries and the higher standard of living. For over 40 years there’s been a trickle of Ghanaian nurses to the English-speaking world. This film visits Ghana with Lydia, a Ghanaian nurse working in the UK, to see what the ‘push’ problems are and find out what would make Lydia return to her homeland.
49. Guts, Gumption and Go-Ahead (24 minutes) Her Grandmother was a slave. She worked in other women's houses. Historical images, vibrant music and Annie Mae's own words create a unique portrait of a remarkable woman who overcame racism and sexism.
50. Have You Heard From Johannesburg?: Apartheid and the Club of the West (89 minutes) This film shows how a nation-wide campaign of civil disobedience, campus protest and finally legislative action, spearheaded by African American leaders spawned by the Civil Rights Movement, reversed American foreign policy toward South Africa in the face of the most right wing administration in our history.
51. Hide Your Words (27 minutes) This intimate documentary is about the lives and dreams of two Iranian sisters, who talk about their lives, their fears, and their aspirations. They also discuss how their five older sisters were married off before the age of 12.
52. Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes (61 minutes) An examination of representations of manhood in hip-hop and the corporate exploitation of youth culture. The film pays tribute to hip-hop while challenging the rap music industry to take responsibility for glamorizing sexism, violence and homophobia.
53. Home is Struggle (37 minutes) Using interviews, photographs and theatrical vignettes, Home is Struggle explores the lives of women who have come to the United States from Latin American countries. In sharing their stories and views on sexism and personal and political repression, Home is Struggle presents an absorbing picture of the construction of 'Latina' identity and the immigrant experience.
54. In Ghandi’s Footsteps (50 minutes) Focuses on Kiran Bedi, India’s first female police officer who has been compared to Mother Theresa and Mahatma Ghandi. In Ghandi’s Footsteps examines Bedi’s work as a prison reformer and the impact her non-violent solutions have on India today.
55. In Search of International Justice (66 minutes) This film visits Kosovo, Northern Uganda, Rwanda, Darfur and Iraq to tell the stories of war victims and a search for justice through the International Criminal Court. It also discusses the United States’ opposition to this new court.
56. In Plain English (42 minutes) A 1992 documentary film that features more than a dozen students of color, at the University of Oregon, telling their stories of campus life at a primarily white campus.
57. Independent Intervention: Breaking Silence (75 minutes) A documentary about United States media coverage of the conflict in Iraq. Focusing on the human costs of war, it contrasts corporate-controlled media coverage of the invasion of Iraq with independent media reports of the brutal realities on the ground.
58. Inside Out (39 minutes) Features intimate conversations with three transsexuals living in Iran, allowing them to tell their stories, including the lifelong struggle to come to terms with their gender dysphoria and how it has affected their everyday behavior, and the impact of hormone therapy and sex-change surgery on their lives.
59. In/Te/Gra/Tion (2 minutes) This film focuses on the “origin” and the “becoming” of transmigrants constantly shifting across space and beyond borders, traveling, evolving, and refusing to be fixated based on their race, ethnicity and places of birth.
60. It Happens to Us (32 minutes) First released in 1972, this film remains the classic plea for legal abortion. Each of the four methods is fully described by a physician and pertinent medical statistics are interspersed throughout. It presents the most cogent arguments, through the personal stories of a wide range of women, as to why abortion must remain an available choice. It discusses the consequences of abortion being illegal and what life was like before the Roe v. Wade 1973 Supreme Court decision.
61. Kathy & Mo – 3 cc (57 minutes) Funny, insightful, stand-up comedy by 2 women--Kathy & Mo. Includes skits about the different roles of men and women. 2 VHS/1 DVD
62. Killing Poverty (27 minutes) This film follows a family in Kenya afflicted by AIDS and focuses on the need for international aid to help stamp out government corruption.
63. Killing Us Softly III-Advertising’s Image of Women (34 minutes) - 2 cc Jean Kilbourne pioneering work helped develop and popularize the study of gender representation in advertising. In this important film, Kilbourne reviews if and how the image of women in advertising has changed over the last 20 years. 2 VHS
64. La Bruja: A Witch from the Bronx (50 minutes) Art, labor and family blend in this intimate documentary about performance artist ‘La Bruja.’ This film is a celebration of La Bruja’s perseverance to gain visibility and recognition in the male dominated world of hip-hop and her extended family’s unconditional support.
65. Las Mujeres de la Caucus Chicana (25 minutes) Emerging from the Feminist and Chicano movements of the 60s and 70s is the story of six Latinas who answered the call to action. Their ideological differences, personal experiences and upbringings brought them to a monumental point in their lives – the 1977 National Women’s Political Caucus (NWPC) and International Women’s Year Convention. As chosen delegates, these women formed the NWPC Chicana Caucus – representing Latina sisters across the nation and working towards liberation. 2 DVDs
66. Lesbian Avengers Eat Fire Too (The) (55 minutes) This film provides an insider’s look at the first year of an all-out, all-lesbian direct action group, The Lesbian Avengers.
67. Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness (14 minutes) Playfully updating the 1950's school documentary, this film uses political and social satire to explore the issue of reproductive rights for women. The film celebrates the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, highlights the ongoing political and social battle for reproductive freedom in the United States.
68. Look Us in the Eye: The Old Women’s Project (26 minutes) In this video about ageism and activism from a feminist perspective, San Diegans Cynthia Rich, Manni Garza and Janice Keaffaber take the stereotypes of an ageist culture and turn them on their heads.
69. Love Iranian-American Style (63 minutes) A tour of America's status-obsessed Iranian Jewish Community.
70. Maquilopolis (68 minutes) Carmen and her friend Lourdes confront labor violations, environmental devastation and urban chaos created by multinationally owned factories that came to Mexico for its cheap labor taking on both the Mexican and U.S. governments and a major television manufacturer.
71. March for Women’s Lives: March for Freedom of Choice A film about the April 24, 2004 march on Washington in which up to one million women united to show support for reproductive rights and oppose the Bush administration policies on women’s health.
72. Motherhood Manifesto (The) (57 minutes) This film looks at the obstacles facing working mothers and families and the employer and public policy changes needed to restore work-life balance.
73. Motherland Afghanistan (73 minutes) An attempt to rehabilitate the largest women’s hospital in Afghanistan with the promised support of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This film reveals that far more resources are needed to improve women’s healthcare in this beleaguered nation.
74. My Self/My Story (3 minutes) This film explores what it means to be an Asian woman and a woman of color in the West. Through the eyes and voice of the narrator who is a transnational woman constantly shifting across boundaries, moving back and forth, and traveling here and there of her own autonomy, a counter-hegemonic view resisting the dominant discourse is delineated.
75. Naral Pro-Choice
76. Never Go Back – A Threat to Legalized Abortion (15 minutes) A film
produced by Feminist Majority Foundation and narrated by Carrie Fisher. This film outlines the threat that upcoming Supreme Court retirements poses to accessible, legal abortion in the United States.
77. No! Confronting Sexual Assault (94 minutes) A comprehensive lens to examine the impact of sexual violence on Black women and girls-calling to task in particular the behaviors and attitudes of Black men in reinforcing a pervasive cultural assault. 2 DVD/1 VHS
78. None of the Above (20 minutes) None of the Above is a documentary about people of mixed racial heritage based on the filmmaker's own search for identity and community. Through her journey into the multiracial world we are given an inside view of the emotional reality of what it's like to be racially unclassifiable in a society obsessed with race.
79. Not The Numbers Game – Series of 3 – Cambodia (2 cc), India and Peru: These three ten minute films were made by a woman filmmaker from the relevant country of region, who through very human, intimate stories, explores a number of fundamental issues that were debated at the Cairo Conference.
80. Not Without My Veil – Among the Women of Oman (29 minutes) This film explores the lives of Oman women that are educated and become independent but still dress in their traditional clothes.
81. Nothing to Lose (18 minutes) A film in which fifteen overweight women express their life experiences through acting, singing, dialogues and poetry. The message is “fat positive” and challenges the diet-obsessed, fat-hating culture we live in. 2 DVDs
82. Operacion (La) (40 minutes) –This documentary examines the problem of widespread sterilization among Puerto Rican women through the use of personal testimony, newsreels, and government propaganda excerpts. The procedure is so common that more than one-third of all Puerto Rican women of childbearing age have been sterilized. Begun in the 1930's as a means of curbing the surplus population, it continues to be reinforced politically and socially in the Puerto Rican communities. DVD
83. Our Feet on the Ground – Changing Through Cancer (30 minutes) Six women, cancer survivors, talk about facing serious illness and mortality. With intimacy, intensity and humor, they share the impact cancer has had on their lives. Featuring WS faculty member Vicki Byard.
84. Our View from the Red Line: Looking at the North of Howard Community (29 minutes) An oral history of Chicago's North-of-Howard community (Rogers Park). Eighteen low-income African American and Caribbean high school students use video, audio, and still photography to document the voices and stories of their rapidly changing community.
85. Path to Nuclear Fission: The Story of Lise Meitner & Otto Hahn (The) (56 minutes) This film details the story of Lise Meitner who made scientific history when she and her collaborator, Otto Hahn, discovered nuclear fission in 1938. It captures Meitner’s efforts to make her way in the male-dominated world of physics, the racial and political discrimination that forced Meitner to live in exile, and ongoing speculation about her exclusion from the Nobel Prize.
86. Pill (The) (60 minutes) Featuring personal accounts from the first generation of women to have access to the Pill, this film shows how harnessing female hormones into a little pill unleashed a social revolution unlike any other in our history.
87. Pornography of Everyday Life (The) (34 minutes) This video incorporates over 200 images from advertising, the news, ancient myth, contemporary art, and pornography as it suggests that “pornography” is really a mainstream worldview, one supporting not only sexism, but also racism, militarism, torture and environmental destruction. Visionary artists and thinkers re-imagine female sexuality and/or the female divine, restoring respect to the feminine principle, and calling for new understandings of sex, mystery, connection, eroticism, and ecstasy. DVD
88. Positive Images (58 minutes) Designed to provide positive, realistic pictures of the lives of women with disabilities and the social, economic, and political issues they face, Positive Images focuses on three strong and articulate women. This powerful film also discusses education, employment and careers, sexuality, family life and parenting, and societal attitudes.
89. (A) Pyramid of Women (20 minutes) This film tells the story of a group of women in India who are challenging the male domination over a dangerous Hindu religious custom.
90. (A) Question of Rights – Series of 4 – Ethiopia, Fiji, Jamaica, Latvia -- World of Difference Four 15-minute films explore what governments, communities, NGO’s and individuals are doing to ensure that women’s reproductive rights are recognized.
91. Rape Culture (30 minutes) This documentary examines classic films, advertising, music and "adult entertainment," and documents the insights of rape crisis workers and prisoners working against rape. This documentary establishes the relationship between rape and our culture's sexual fantasies.
92. Rape for Who I am (27 minutes) - This documentary offers a fascinating and
moving insight into the lives of South Africa’s black lesbians, who, raped because of their sexuality, refuse to become victims.
93. Reaching Out to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Youth (21 minutes)
94. Real Talk: Engaging Young Men as Allies to End Violence Against Women (28 minutes) – The young women’s action team asks young and adult men what a male ally looks like, and how to build the movement to stop violence against women. Using poetry, dance and interviews, this video speaks to youth who want to confront violence in their communities.
95. Recalling Orange County (58 minutes) This film is a personal and incisive look at the immigration debate through contentious recall of an immigrant rights activist in California and the fierce conflict it sparked within the Latino community.
96. Rosa Parks: Mother of a Movement (24 minutes)
97. Rosa Parks: The Path to Freedom (20 minutes) A documentary film based on how one woman changed the world by refusing to give up her seat on the bus in the sixties. This film gives an inside look on the events that took place forty years ago in Montgomery, Alabama and shows how Rosa Parks is still committed to working for social justice.
98. Running in High Heels (90 min or 50 min available) This film explores various aspects of politics, feminism, and tradition. By following a Republican woman running for office, it also cleverly posits a challenging question: Should feminists vote for women, regardless of the candidates’ politics?
99. Saudi Solutions (77 minutes) - This film takes us inside this closed society where fewer than five percent of women do paid work. A journalist, a gynecologist, a photographer, a television news reader and the nation’s first female airline pilot discuss their everyday lives and concerns; they are surprisingly defensive of Saudi social customs.
100. Scene Not Heard (45 minutes) Scene Not Heard tells the story of women hip-hop artists as they struggle to succeed in a male-dominated music industry.
101. Seneca Reflections – Celebrating 150 Years of Women’s Rights (24 minutes) Seneca Reflections is a rare, personal tribute to the remarkable women- past and present- whose lives have furthered the cause of women’s rights. Included are voices of Betty Friedan, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Donna Shalala, Sally Roesch Wagner, Judy Wellman, Coline Jenkins-Sahlin, Karen Staser, and others.
102. Shape of Water (The) (70 minutes) The Shape of Water interweaves the intimate stories of six women living in Senegal, Brazil, India and Jerusalem. The women abandon female genital mutilation, tap rubber to protect the rainforest, protect the biodiversity of the planet and oppose military occupations.
103. She Rhymes Like a Girl (7 minutes) Toni Blackman and the FreeStyle Union are challenging the male dominated world of hip hop and empowering women to speak their minds in freestyle workshops. This music video/documentary hopes to promote a movement of female MCs.
104. Sisters Speak Loud and Clear: Stop Violence Against Women (36 minutes) A community based forum held in Chicago in which women and teens of many races, classes, ethnicities and religion look at the violence in their lives and communities, speak out from their own experiences and seek out ways to prevent and reduce violence.
105. Skokie – Rights or Wrong – A Film About Freedom of Speech (28 minutes) Skokie documents the legal and moral crisis posed when the American Nazi Party chose to demonstrate in Skokie, Illinois, home to many concentration camp survivors. Featured are scenes of the angry demonstration, interviews with Nazi leaders, their ACLU attorneys, Holocaust survivors, and Jesse Jackson.
106. Speak Up! (30 minutes) Speak Up! explores what gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students and their allies have done to transform their schools into a safer and more welcoming environment. Interviews with students, parents, teachers, administrators and national activists highlight not only the need for transformation, but offer resources and advice for those actively working for change.
107. Still Waiting: Life After Katrina (58 minutes) Still Waiting takes place in the post-Katrina world of three African American women who grew up in the New Orleans area and together anchor extended family of 155 people. The group’s well-knotted bonds of love and reciprocity function like an emotional ecosystem, capable, it seems, of absorbing the profound betrayal of nature and the system.
108. Strangers in Good Company (101 minutes) A busload of women become stranded in an isolated part of the Canadian countryside. As they await rescue, they reflect on their lives through a mostly ad-libbed script.
109. Susan B. Anthony: Rebel for the Cause This film demonstrates how this feminist leader simultaneously influenced events while being shaped by external forces. It also examines the role of women in nineteenth-century America.
110. Terror at Home: Domestic Violence in America (60 minutes) This film provides an unflinching look at some of the personal stories behind the shocking statistics of domestic violence in America. The violence cuts across all lines – racial, educational and financial.
111. Thinking From Women’s Lives: Sandra Harding, Standpoint & Science (31 minutes) This video frames standpoint epistemology with broader connections to multiple feminist concepts. Produced through interviews with and a lecture by Sandra Harding, this video gives an overview of how Standpoint Theory came about, its history and applications, and its relation to science.
112. Tongues Untied (55 minutes) Tongues Untied presents the situation, politics and culture of black gay men using an intense mixture of styles ranging from social documentary to experimental montage, personal narrative and lyric poetry.
113. Tracy Ullman – Gay Comedy Routine
114. Try to Remember (90 minutes) -- The film’s director escorts his mother on a visit to the rural Chinese village where she grew up to discover that the pace and quality of life in rural China has remained essentially unchanged. The film also reveals China’s strictly enforced birth policies and environmental degradation affecting the countryside.
115. Turning a Corner (58 minutes) Documents the sex trade industry and exposes the harsh realities of street prostitution in Chicago. The film tells the women’s stories of survival and triumph over homelessness, violence and discrimination and gives rare insights into Chicago’s sex industry. 2 DVDs
116. Two Months to Home (8 minutes) Samira Rahman is an Afghan mother who narrowly escaped death at the hands of the Taliban just before September 11, 2001. Upon arrival in the U.S., she is unduly held in a makeshift detention center for two months. Samira learns a hard lesson about life in the U.S, the price of immigration, and the importance of finding strength in herself.
117. Ugly Ducklings (55 minutes) Explores harassment, bullying and homophobia and their affects on lesbian and gay youth. Conservations with young girls, teens and women reveal the personal struggles they face in overcoming homophobia and harassment in their churches, schools and communities.
118. Unoccupied Zone: The Impossible Life of Simone Weil -- Unoccupied Zone depicts the last two years of writer and mystic Simone Weil’s life. After the 1940 German occupation of Paris, Weil was forced to leave for the “unoccupied zone” controlled by the Vichy regime of Southern France. The movie asks the unanswered questions about the relationship between politics and faith. (DVD/VHS)
119. Voices of Choice: Physicians Who Provided Abortions Before Roe v. Wade (24 minutes) Voices of Choice contains live interviews with physicians who risked their careers and lives in order to provide women with the healthcare they needed and deserved.
120. Voices From the Street: Countdown to a March (63 minutes) This film goes behind the scenes for a rare examination of the work and people who designed and organized the record-breaking 2004 March for Women’s Lives in Washington D.C.
121. Waking Up to Rape (35 minutes) This is a powerful film that examines the personal trauma of rape, its long-term psychological effects, societal attitudes about sexual assault, and the problem of racism in the criminal justice system. Three rape survivors (Black, Chicana and White) courageously describe their rape experience. The film also features scenes with women police officers, counselors and self-defense instructors.
122. Walking With Furee (10 minutes) Post 9/11, Wanda, a Harlem raised believer in the American Dream, found herself jobless and going to the welfare office. The humiliation of her treatment and the persistent efforts of the women at FUREE (Families United for Racial and Economic Equality), led Wanda to become an activist and speaker to recruit other women to empower themselves.
123. What Makes Me White? (17 minutes) This film is a personal and poetic exploration of whiteness as a learned racial identity. People of color respond to stories of white people growing up white, with stories of their own, reflecting on their experiences of whiteness in everyday life. While unflinching in its exploration of white identity, the film avoids blame or guilt, and is designed to inspire reflection and self-examination among white people.
124. What We Leave Behind (21 minutes) - Through personal stories, poetry, group discussions and on-the-street interviews, former prisoners share their experiences of incarceration as women and as mothers. This video is an excellent resource for anyone concerned with the disturbing increase in women’s incarceration and its impact on society.
125. Without Due Process (45 minutes) -- This documentary profiles the Okamotos, a Japanese American family who share their experiences and feelings about being incarcerated. They discuss the negative and positive aspects of their incarceration, their initial reactions of their imprisonment, day-to-day life in the camps, how they feel today about the "internment," as well as what it means to be Japanese American in this country.
126. Women at Work – No Offense (12 minutes) - No Offense helps audiences identify and deal with sexual and racial harassment, homophobia and other forms of unacceptable behavior in the workplace.
127. Women in Love (59 minutes) Examines the human ability to redefine ourselves and reshape what we think "love" means.
128. Women Next Door (The) (80 minutes) - The Women Next Door explores the lives of women for whom the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a fact of life. The film features interviews with women on both sides of the conflict. They represent a wide range of political and cultural views and economic and educational levels but all share the threat of violence, deportation or imprisonment for themselves or their families.
129. Women Organize! (32 minutes) - This film gives a glimpse of a diverse group of women's activists whose work ranges from working with high school girls in a low income neighborhood in the northwest to working with Asian immigrant women factory workers organizing for decent working conditions. It is an excellent resource for use in women's studies, ethnic studies, service learning, and other social transformation courses.
130. Women: The New Poor (28 minutes) - Divorced women and single mothers who lack skills and opportunities for economic self-sufficiency represent the alarming feminization of poverty in the US. This documentary follows the lives of four women of diverse backgrounds who have become poor in various ways and explores how they cope with poverty.
131. Work and Respect-Domestic Workers United (10 minutes) The story of the beginnings of an organization fighting to improve working conditions and pay for the over 200,000 women (often undocumented) who work as housekeepers and nannies in NYC.
132. You Have a Choice (9 minutes) Explores options teenagers have when they become pregnant. Includes interviews and statistics about teens who become pregnant.
133. Your Hands (11 minutes) An overview of the issues concerning the epidemic of HIV/AIDS in the African American Community, from the point of view of women speaking across generations and points of view (HIV positive and negative).
134. Your Library: A Feminist Resource
Created by Ann Botz Secretary, Women's Studies Program: 773-442-4550, and Laurie Fuller, Associate Professor and Women's Studies Coordinator: 773-442-4552
Last updated August 2008
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