Amy! and Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti
Two films by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, Color/BW
WMM is pleased to release two early works by renowned film scholar Laura Mulvey, co-written and co-directed with Peter Wollen. Mulvey came to prominen...

Angola Is Our Country
A film by Jenny Morgan, 1988, 45 min., Color
Angolan women are rarely heard describing the impact of South Africa’s undeclared war against their country. This moving documentary, produced in conj...

Anna from Benin
A film by Monique Mbeka Phoba, 2000, 45 min., Color
ANNA FROM BENIN is an extraordinary portrait of an extraordinary 17th year old. Anna is one of 31 children that her father has had with his 5 wives. ...

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 Beijing
A film by Shirini Heerah and Enrique Berrios, 1996, 42 min., Color
The 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women and the parallel Forum (NGO) that took place in Beijing assembled the largest global gatherin...

Bringing It All Back Home
A Sheffield Film Coop Production
Directed by Chrissie Stansfield, 1987, 48 min., Color
This fascinating documentary analyzes how the patterns of international capital investment and the exploitation of Third World women workers in free t...

Calling the Ghosts
Executive Producer: Julia Ormond
Directed by Mandy Jacobson and Karmen Jelincic, 1996, 63 min., Color
An extraordinarily powerful documentary, CALLING THE GHOSTS is the first-person account of two women caught in a war where rape was as much an everyda...

Children of the Crocodile
A film by Marsha Emerman, 2001, 52 min., Color
This documentary tells the story of two young Timorese-Australian activists – one a high profile human rights worker, the other a performance artist a...

Covered: The Hejab in Cairo, Egypt
A film by Tania Kamal-Eldin, 1995, 25 min., Color
Just over a decade ago it was hard to find women on the streets of Cairo who veiled, a custom that their forebears struggled to overthrow at the begin...

The Day You Love Me
A film by Florence Jaugey, 1999, 61 min., Color
A close-up look at the varieties and complexities of domestic violence, THE DAY YOU LOVE ME takes us into the daily life of policewomen and social wor...

Enemies of Happiness
A film by Eva Mulvad and Anja Al-Erhayem, 2006, 59 min., Color
"In September 2005, Afghanistan held its first parliamentary elections in 35 years. Among the candidates for 249 assembly seats was Malalai Joya, a co...

Filming Desire:
A film by Marie Mandy, 2000, 60 min., Color
“In this bold documentary Marie Mandy asks the question: how do women directors film love, desire, and, especially, sexuality? In rare interviews wit...

Four Women of Egypt
A film by Tahani Rached, 1997, 90 min., Color
Amina Rachid was raised in a non-religious, Westernized, aristocratic household before embracing Socialism and fighting for social justice. Another d...

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...

The Hidden Story
A film by Shikha Jhingan and Ranjani Mazumdar, 1995, 58 min., Color
Its title referring both to women's hidden lives and the hidden work of creating ethnographic realities, this nuanced look at the lives of four rural ...

Iron Ladies of Liberia
A film by Siatta Scott Johnson and Daniel Junge, Produced by Henry Ansbacher & Jonathan Stack, 2007, 77 min., Color
After surviving a 14-year civil war and a government riddled with corruption, Liberia is ready for change. On January 16, 2006, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf ...

Macho
A film by Lucinda Broadbent, 2000, 26 min., Color
In 1998, Managua, Nicaragua became host to one of the most publicized and controversial cases of sexual abuse to hit modern day Latin America. At the...

Made In India
A film by Patricia Plattner, 1998, 52 min., Color
This powerful documentary is a portrait of SEWA, the now-famous women's organization in India that holds to the simple yet radical belief that poor wo...

Made In Thailand
A film by Eve-Laure Moros and Linzy Emery, 1999, 30 min., Color
In Thailand, women make up 90 percent of the labor force responsible for garments and toys for export by multinational corporations. This powerful, re...

My Heart is My Witness
A film by Louise Carré, 1996, 56 min., Color
MY HEART IS MY WITNESS, by renowed French-Canadian filmmaker, Louise Carré, investigates the status of women in Islam through interviews with men and ...

New Directions
A 4-part series by Joanne Burke, 1997, 145 min., 4 in series, Color
NEW DIRECTIONS is award-winning documentarian Joanne Burke's series about women's empowerment in developing countries. Each one spotlights the critic...

The Noble Struggle
A film by Elli Safari, 2007, 29 min., Color
On March 18, 2005, Amina Wadud shocked the Islamic world by leading a mixed-gender Friday prayer congregation in New York. THE NOBLE STRUGGLE OF AMINA...

Paradise Lost
A film by Ibtisam Salh Mara'ana, 2003, 56 min., Color
Arab Israeli filmmaker Ibtisam Salh Mara'ana grew up in Paradise (Fureidis in Arabic), a small fishing village overlooking the Mediterranean. One of t...

The Peacekeepers and the Women
A film by Karin Jurschick, 2003, 80 min., Color
Winner of the Arte-Documentary Award for Best German Documentary, this chilling investigation examines the booming sex-trafficking industry in Bosnia ...

Ripples of Change
A film by Nanako Kurihara, 1993, 57 min., Color
Powerful political analysis is combined with a passionate personal story in this exceptional documentary about the Japanese women’s liberation movemen...

Selbe
A film by Safi Faye, 1983, 30 min., Color
This revealing documentary offers a rare view of daily life in West Africa. Shot in Senegal, SELBE focuses on the social role and economic responsibil...

Simon & I
A film by Beverley Palesa Ditsie and Nicky Newman, 2002, 52 min., Color
SIMON & I is an intimate and inspiring portrait of black South African gay rights activist Simon Nkoli, who died of AIDS in 1998, and his fellow activ...

A State of Danger
A film by Haim Bresheeth and Jenny Morgan, 1989, 28 min., Color
Shot in Israel and the Occupied Territories, this extraordinary documentary offers a unique, vital perspective on the Intifada seldom seen in U.S. mai...

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...

Through Chinese Women's Eyes
A film by Mayfair Yang, 1997, 52 min., Color
THROUGH CHINESE WOMEN'S EYES offers an insightful journey into the transformations in the lives of Chinese women over the 20th century. In a fascinat...

Thunder in Guyana
A film by Suzanne Wasserman, 2003, 50 min., Color/BW
THUNDER IN GUYANA is the remarkable tale of Janet Rosenberg, a young woman from Chicago who married Guyanese activist Cheddi Jagan, and set off for th...

Transnational Tradeswomen
A film by Vivian Price, 2006, 62 min., Color
Inspired by organizers at the Beijing Conference on Women in 1995, former construction worker Vivian Price spent years documenting the current and his...

The Vienna Tribunal
A film by Gerry Rogers, 1994, 48 min., Color
Highlights of moving personal testimonies at the Global Tribunal on Violations of Women's Rights-held in conjunction with U.N. World Conference on Hum...

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...

Warrior Marks
A film by Pratibha Parmar
Executive produced by Alice Walker, 1993, 54 min., Color
WARRIOR MARKS is a poetic and political film about female genital mutilation from the director of A PLACE OF RAGE, presented by the Pulitzer Prize win...

Women in Politics
A six-part series by Lowri Gwilym, 1989, 240 min., 6 in series, Color
Produced by BBC Television, WOMEN IN POLITICS is a major international series of documentaries about women politicians. Profiles of six women who run...

New Directions: Women of Guatemala
A film by Joanne Burke, 2000, 26 min., Color
Part of the new generation of Mayan women, Maria Del Carmen Chavajay and Micaela Chavajay, are two sisters who head the Health Promoter Group of San P...

New Directions: Women of Thailand
A film by Joanne Burke, 1997, 26 min., Color
In Klong Toey, Bangkok's largest slum, Duang Prateep, a foundation created and run entirely by women provides empowering choices and role models to th...

The Women’s Kingdom
A film by Xiaoli Zhou, Produced by Xiaoli Zhou & Brent E. Huffman, 2006, 22 min., Color
Keepers of one of the last matriarchal societies in the world, Mosuo women in a remote area of southwest China live beyond the strictures of mainstrea...

Women's Lives and Choices
Produced by Daniel Riesenfeld for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 1995, 200 min., 3 in series, Color
This important and timely series deals with women's health and the social, cultural and economic factors underlying reproductive choices. VENTRE LIVR...

Writing Desire
A film by Ursula Biemann, 2000, 23 min., Color
"Ursula Biemann’s WRITING DESIRE is a video essay on the new dream screen of the Internet and how it impacts on the global circulation of women’s bodi...

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