Documentary
The video documentary "A Struggle to Remember: Fighting for Our Families" puts faces and narratives to the story of the struggle for family leave in Canada. The 20-minute film shows how it became accepted that women be able to return to their jobs after maternity leave and how men and women gained real and enforceable work-life balance provisions.
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Duet
Ynang-Bayan: To be a Woman is to Live at a Time of War
A Vision in the Darkness
Ours to Tell
Rock Chicks
Northern Minnesota's Labor Wars
Plutocracy III: Class War
Artist on Fire: Joyce Wieland
Breaking Plates
Black Women, Sexual Politics and the Revolution
L7: Pretend We're Dead
Make Love Not Porn
Ladyfilmine
Wir haben lange geschwiegen
Feminism WTF
Taking Alcatraz
Wallpaper
Radical Vulnerability
Silvana
The Fight for Women's Bodies
SIMILAR MOVIES
Duet
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2022
Mısra and Defne are close friends and duet partners who met each other through synchronized swimming. After failing to qualify for the 2016 Olympics, they set a shared goal, the 2020 Olympics. Not too long after, their esteemed coach Natalie is fired by the federation with no explanation. What follows is an emotional devastation and disruption of scheduled practices, which in turn leads to a decline in their performances. Political tremors in Turkey and the global pandemic lead the duet to make a decision on whether to keep the fight or to find new paths in life.Ynang-Bayan: To be a Woman is to Live at a Time of War
IMDB 0 | Nov , 1991
A documentary film, which focuses on the subject of women’s movement in the Philippines. Myth and legend overlap with history and politics as the women’s struggle is laid to bear in the individual stories and achievements of those featured in the film. The fragmented mosaic of voices and scenes allow for a plurality of views and opinions to account for the multifaceted and complex nature of Filipinas. From poetry to dance, politics to poetry – women chart their own lives in the auspicious event of change happening with the ascent of a woman to the country’s pinnacle of power.A Vision in the Darkness
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1991
Through the eyes of a Quebec Jewish activist, Lea Roback, feminist, unionist, pacifist and communist, A VISION IN THE DARKNESS proposes a modernist vision of Quebec history, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the period knows as « La Grande Noirceur », the Great Darkness.Ours to Tell
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2020
Four people - Brittany, Hannah, Nick, and Ylonda - tell their stories about how access to abortion in their community helped them empower themselves to lead lives they want to live.Rock Chicks
IMDB 8.5 | Mar , 2023
Rock'n'roll was a man's world they say. The film documents the often ignored female impact on rock's history, from the groundbreaking guitar stylings of Memphis Minnie and Sister Rosetta to the gnarly singing of Big Mama Thornton. Musicians as different as Suzi Quatro and Kristin Hersh tell about their experiences on and off the grid of stardom and the music industry.Northern Minnesota's Labor Wars
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2017
Filmmaker Gary Kaunonen of KCC-TV in International Falls just released a new documentary about a pivotal time in Northern Minnesota’s labor history. It’s called “Northern Minnesota’s Labor Wars.” The years 1916 and 1917 brought major labor uprisings in the mines of the Mesabi Iron Range and the lumber camps of the state’s far northern pine forests. These events not only shaped local history, but became vital turning points in the national and international labor movement.Plutocracy III: Class War
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2017
The early struggles of the working class are placed under a microscope in Plutocracy III: Class War, the latest chapter in an exceptionally well produced series which explores the origins of America's growing economic divide.Artist on Fire: Joyce Wieland
IMDB 0 | Sep , 1987
Considered one of Canada's most important women artists of the second half of the 20th century, Joyce Wieland's art embodies the essence of her homeland, feminism, and ecology. Artist on Fire: Joyce Wieland captures the vibrant spirit of this painter, collagist, quilt maker, and filmmaker. In the early '70s, Wieland was involved in filmmaking, producing movies with a political message. In her 30-year career, she worked in a variety of mediums, including cloth, pastels, colored pencil, oils, bronze, and watercolor. Her works and her influence are examined in this detailed video portrait.Breaking Plates
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2024
A unique hybrid of documentary, silent film, drama and dance, 'Breaking Plates' puts revolutionary women of the past on the screen with present day filmmakers. Contemporary women talk to characters from 100 years ago, reanimate their antics and emulate their mayhem moves. As early 21st century performers step into the clothes of their early 20th century counterparts, battling their haywire machines, exploding gags, and eruptive bodies, they learn to wield humour as a weapon against the structures that contain them today.Black Women, Sexual Politics and the Revolution
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1992
Focuses on sexual equality in the Black community.L7: Pretend We're Dead
IMDB 7 | Oct , 2017
A real time journey witnessing the rise, fall, and ultimate redemption of the fierce feminist pioneers of American grunge punk: L7.Make Love Not Porn
IMDB 6.5 | Mar , 2024
Against the stereotypes of the “ideal” woman and the symbols of Pornography, the women in the works of Greek comic artist Stavros Kioutsioukis preserve their personality: they are the girls next door who try and get their rights in Happiness and Love.Ladyfilmine
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2026
A documentary by Giulia Vallicelli about the lady fest that took place in Rome in 2009. This documentary showcases the reality of queer and intersectional feminism in Italy through punk and feminist music.Wir haben lange geschwiegen
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1975
After a woman’s silent rage erupts into a fight post-coitus, a women’s group analyzes her refusal to stay passive. Another scene shows a woman’s despair when her lover misses their meeting, prompting the group to reject passive waiting. Together, they combat issues like rape, prostitution, and abortion rights (§218) to reclaim self-determination.Feminism WTF
IMDB 8 | Mar , 2023
An international topic documentary on feminism and gender equality. The film reflects on current debates and analyses the potential of intersectional feminism to profoundly change our future societies.Taking Alcatraz
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2015
A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the 1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island as told by principal organizer, Adam Fortunate Eagle. The story unfolds through Fortunate Eagle's remembrances, archival newsreel footage and photographs.Wallpaper
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2023
Radical Vulnerability
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2019
Performance artist Tasha Diamant is the first person in the world to stand naked on the street with the Extinction Symbol, which she started in 2012. This mini-doc was shot in 2019 in Montreal. Her work confronts privilege, capitalism, state oppression, obliviousness, whiteness, to name a few. Ask yourself: why 10 cops?Silvana
IMDB 5 | Sep , 2017
A documentary about the Swedish rapper and artist Silvana Imam.The Fight for Women's Bodies
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2018
In the months leading up to, and days following Ireland’s historic referendum to repeal the eighth amendment, investigative journalist Ellie Flynn follows the story of the landmark vote to legalise abortion. Ahead of the referendum, Ellie travels to Ireland to meet activists and campaigners from both sides of the debate to try and understand the impact of the Law for young Irish voters and discovers that this incredibly divisive and emotionally charged issue is not as black and white as it seems. She meets a young ‘No’ vote campaigner who believes he's only alive because the amendment stopped his mother from aborting him in her youth and speaks to a woman who made the tragic decision to travel to the UK to abort her much wanted daughter after discovering she would be in extreme pain for the few moments she was likely to survive. On May 25th, Ireland voted Yes to the constitutional amendment to legalise abortion and Ellie returned to discuss the reaction.