Women S Rights Movies

In an era of antifeminist backlash, this articulate documentary by the makers of Thank God I’m a Lesbian forcefully reminds us that the...

Xóchitl is an indigenous woman who must fight for her freedom before the birth of her baby, since she finds herself trapped in an abusive...

Suffering from addiction and homelessness, Abigail wanders the city on a cold winter late afternoon, suffering withdrawal, slipping in and out of...

After the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004, widowed women struggled to receive aid due to their social status. Following the story of Mrs. Manjula along...

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...

Focusing on five of them, this documentary pays tribute to the wealthy women who, under the Ancien Régime, promoted scholars and artists, and...

How to ride a mechanical bull and not care that everyone is picturing you naked.

Documentary dialogue with young women in Algiers on their experience of independence shortly after their country's independence.

Filmed over the summer festival season, Stacey Lee’s uplifting documentary examines gender inequality in the electronic dance music scene.

Annita Malavasi was just 22 when the Germans occupied Italy, their former allies, in 1943. As a partisan in the Italian resistance named...

Motherhood: a subject so deeply ingrained in our society, we take it for granted as part of the natural order. It's assumed all women want children,...

According to the laws of Iran, Bahareh must have her traditional, chauvinistic husband accompany her to driving lessons so she and her instructor...

Women are being jailed, physically violated and at risk of dying as a radical movement tightens its grip across America.

When a young social elite at the turn of the nineteenth century explores life as a modern woman, she risks losing the man she loves and a certain...

Four women are on an existential journey in Morocco, connecting with local women from all walks of life bonding in sisterhood, and share their common...

This documentary portrays the way in which attacks against a twisted concept of “gender ideology” in four countries are being used to...

You Have Struck A Rock! commemorates the special contribution of South African women to the success of the anti-apartheid struggle. It recovers the...

Two women rebel against the traditions of a village society.

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