Showing 1 - 10 of 241 titles with a criteria of Subject is Documentary Films

93Queen

93QUEEN chronicles the creation of the first all-female Hasidic ambulance corps in New York City.

Women Make Movies | 2018 | 90 minutes

Abortion Helpline

At the Philadelphia abortion helpline, counselors field nonstop calls from women and teens who are seeking to end a pregnancy but can’t afford to, illustrating how economic stigma and cruel laws determine who has access to abortion in America.

Women Make Movies | 2020 | 13 minutes

Absences

ABSENCES, by award winning filmmaker Tatiana Huezo (The Tiniest Place), exposes the ever-intensifying phenomenon of enforced disappearance in Mexico and the ways it affects women.

Women Make Movies | 2015 | 26 minutes

Actually, Iconic: Richard Estes

An unprecedented look at the king of photorealism.

GOOD DOCS | 2019 | 68 minutes

Advocate

Lea Tsemel, an Israeli-Jewish lawyer who has represented Palestinian political prisoners for nearly 50 years, pushes the praxis of a human rights defender to its limits

GOOD DOCS | 2019 | 108 minutes

After the Rape 

After Mukhtar Mai, a rural Pakistani woman, was gang-raped by order of her tribal council as punishment for her younger brother’s alleged relationship with a woman from another clan, she speaks out, fights for justice in the Pakistani courts, starts two schools for girls in her village and a crisis center for abused women.

Women Make Movies | 2008 | 58 minutes

Always in Season

After 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging in North Carolina in 2014, his mother’s search for justice and reconciliation begins - centuries of trauma and lynching bleed into the present

GOOD DOCS | 2019 | 89 minutes

American Revolutionary

The life of Chinese-American civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs

GOOD DOCS | 2013 | 82 minutes

And Then They Came For Us

Incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII and the demise of civil liberties

GOOD DOCS | 2017 | 51 minutes

Apache 8

A story of resilience, strength, and tradition, APACHE 8 tells the story of an all-female group of firefighters, who protect their reservation from fire and respond to wildfires around the station.

Women Make Movies | 2011 | 57 minutes