Belfast Girls
A film by Malin Andersson, 2006, 58 min., Color
BELFAST GIRLS is a quiet, powerful story of two young women growing up in a city where neighbors are cut off from each other by permanent concrete and...

Between the Lines:
A film by Yunah Hong, 2001, 60 min., Color
BETWEEN THE LINES offers rare interviews with over 15 major Asian-Pacific American women poets. Organized in interwoven sections such as Immigration, ...

Beyond Black and White
A film by Nisma Zaman, 1994, 28 min., Color
BEYOND BLACK AND WHITE is a personal exploration of the filmmaker’s bicultural heritage (Caucasian and Asian/Begali) in which she relates her experien...

Black and White
A film by Kirsty MacDonald, 2006, 17 min., Color
BLACK AND WHITE shines a sensitive light on a subject that is too often either shunned or sensationalized: the experiences of intersex people (sometim...

Black Sheep
A film by Louise Glover and Chili Films, 1999, 26 min., Color
Lou Glover grew up in New South Wales repeating the same homophobic and racist taunts she heard around her. Though she was raised in a white family, s...

Black Women On: The Light, Dark Thang
A film by Celeste Crenshaw and Paula Caffey, 1999, 52 min., Color
BLACK WOMEN ON: THE LIGHT, DARK THANG explores the politics of color within the African-American community. Women representing a variety of hues--fro...

Black, Bold and Beautiful: Black Women's Hair
Directed by Nadine Valcin and Produced by Jennifer Kawaja and Julia Sereny, 1999, 40 min., Color
Afros, braids or corn rows--hairstyles have always carried a social message, and few issues cause as many battles between black parents and their daug...

Boy I Am
A film by Sam Feder & Julie Hollar, 2006, 72 min., Color
An important exploration of issues rarely touched upon by most films portraying female-to-male (FTM) transgender experiences, this feature-length docu...

Color Schemes
A film by Shu Lea Cheang, 1989, 28 min., Color
An upbeat, ironic look at America’s multicultural society, COLOR SCHEMES uses the metaphor of “color wash” to tackle conceptions of racial assimilatio...

Columbus on Trial
A film by Lourdes Portillo, 1993, 18 min., Color
Inspired by the controversy surrounding the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' "discovery" of America, Portillo has fashioned a fanciful versi...

CORPUS: A Home Movie for Selena
A film by Lourdes Portillo, 1999, 47 min., Color
This classic rerelease from award-winning filmmaker Lourdes Portillo (Señorita Extraviada, Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo ) is a complex tri...

Desire
A film by Julie Gustafson and Teenage Girls' Documentary Project, 2005, 85 min., Color
Nearly a decade in the making, this refreshingly honest film documents the challenges and desires of a group of young women in New Orleans by letting ...

Emergence
A film by Pratibha Parmar, 1986, 18 min., Color
Common themes of identity, alienation and herstory in the context of the diasporan experience emerge in this powerful tape. Four Black and Third World...

The F-Word
A film by Marcia Jarmel and Erin Gallagher, 1994, 10 min., Color
THE F-WORD is a provocative look at the power of the word 'feminism' in the US. Why does it mean so many different things to different people? Pithy...

Ferry Tales
A film by Katja Esson, 2003, 40 min., Color
Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Short, FERRY TALES exposes a secret world that exists in the powder room of the Staten Island Ferry--a plac...

Gaea Girls
A film by Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams, 2000, 106 min., Color
"This fascinating film follows the physically grueling and mentally exhausting training regimen of several young wanna-be GAEA GIRLS, a group of Japan...

Home is Struggle
A film by Marta Bautis, 1991, 37 min., Color
Using interviews, photographs and theatrical vignettes, Home is Struggle explores the lives of women who have come to the United States from different...

Japanese American Women
A film by Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro and Leita Hagemann Luchetti, 1992, 28 min., Color
The stereotype of the polite, docile, exotic Asian woman is shattered in this documentary in which a dozen women speak about their experiences as part...

Kinaalda
A film by Lena Carr, 2000, 56 min., Color
The Kinaalda ceremony is an intricate four-day event performed to guide a young girls’ ascent to womanhood. In this unique documentary, Navajo filmma...

Mohawk Girls
A film by Tracey Deer, 2005, 53 min., Color
In MOHAWK GIRLS, filmmaker Tracey Deer intimately captures the lives of three exuberant and insightful Mohawk teenagers as they face their future. Lik...

My Feminism
A film by Dominique Cardona and Laurie Colbert, 1997, 55 min., Color
In an era of anti-feminist backlash, this articulate documentary by the makers of THANK GOD I'M A LESBIAN forcefully reminds us that the revolution co...

Remembering Wei Yi-fang, Remembering Myself
A film by Yvonne Welbon, 1995, 29 min., Color
REMEMBERING WEI YI-FANG, REMEMEBERING MYSELF: An Autobiography charts the influence of the filmmaker’s six-year experience as an African American woma...

Seven Hours To Burn
A film by Shanti Thakur, 1999, 9 min., Color/BW
"A visually expressive personal documentary that explores a family's history. Filmmaker Thakur mixes richly abstract filmmaking with disturbing archi...

Standing on My Sisters' Shoulders
A film by Joan Sadoff, Dr. Robert Sadoff and Laura J. Lipson, 2002, 60 min., Color/BW
In 1965, when three women walked into the US House of Representatives in Washington D.C., they had come a very long way. Neither lawyers nor politicia...

They Call Me Muslim
A film by Diana Ferrero, 2006, 27 min., Color
In popular Western imagination, a Muslim woman in a veil – or hijab – is a symbol of Islamic oppression. But what does it mean for women’s freedom whe...

Tomboys!
A film by Julie Akeret and Christian McEwen, 2004, 28 min., Color
Are tomboys tamed once they grow up? This lively and inspiring documentary explodes that archaic myth with the stories of proud tomboys of all ages: A...

Voices of Change
A 5-part series by Lyn Wright and Barbara Doran, 1996, 92 min., 5 in series, Color
An wide ranging examination both of individual activism and issues facing women worldwide this inspiring five-part documentary offers invaluable insig...

Wind Grass Song
A film by Jana Birchum and Tori Breitling, 1989, 20 min., Color
Based on interviews with Oklahoma women aged 85 to 101 years, WIND GRASS SONG presents a unique vision of U.S. regional culture through an invaluable ...

Women Organize!
A film by Joan E. Biren, Union Institute Ctr. for Women & Women and Organizing Documentation Project, 2000, 32 min., Color
WOMEN ORGANIZE! is an inspirational, half hour video that portrays women organizers across the U.S. who are involved in the global struggles for racia...

Yuri Kochiyama: Passion for Justice
A film by Pat Saunders and Rea Tajiri, 1994, 57 min., Color
Yuri Kochiyama is a Japanese American woman who has lived in Harlem for more than 40 years with a long history of activism on a wide range of issues. ...

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