The Audition
A film by Anna Campion, 1990, 24 min., Color
The filmmaker's sister, Jane Campion, journeys home to New Zealand to audition her onetime actress mother for a small role as a schoolteacher in her f...

Blind Spot: Murder by Women
A film by Irving Saraf, Allie Light and Julia Hilder, 2000, 87 min., Color
Because murder by women is still relatively rare--only one out of eight murders in the United States is committed by a woman--women's own stories prov...

The Body Beautiful
A film by Ngozi Onwurah, 1991, 23 min., Color
This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals t...

Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
A film by Deborah Hoffmann, 1994, 44 min., Color
With profound insight and a healthy dose of levity, COMPLAINTS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER chronicles the various stages of a mother's Alzheimer's Disease a...

Daughter of Suicide
A film by Dempsey Rice, 1999, 72 min., Color
"My mother's suicide is the single most defining event in my life. It's like there's before and there's after and everything is different after." Dem...

Daughter Rite
A film by Michelle Citron, 1979, 53 min., Color
"Daughter Rite is a classic, the missing link between the 'direct Cinema' documentaries and the later hybrids that acknowledged truth couldn't always ...

Daughters of War
A film by Maria Barea, 1998, 30 min., Color
How does a 17 year old mother and leader of a girl gang survive in a region where violence and abuse has become the norm? In DAUGHTERS OF WAR, Peruvia...

Don't Fence Me In
A film by Nandini Sikand, 1998, 55 min., Color
Against the broader backdrop of modern India's political and social history, this lyrical documentary tells the story of the life of Krishna Sikand, t...

Dreams of Jagodina
A film by Nora Malone, 2005, 29 min., Color
Scripted from interviews with Serbian émigré Suzana Jeremic, DREAMS OF JAGODINA merges experimental, dreamlike visuals and documentary storytelling to...

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...

For My Children
A film by Aviad Michal, 2002, 65 min., Color
In October 2000, as the second Palestinian Intifada erupts, Israeli filmmaker Michal Aviad begins a video exploration about both the moral and mundane...

Girls Like Us
A film by Jane C. Wagner and Tina DiFeliciantonio, 1997, 57 min., Color
An ethnically diverse group of four working class girls strut, flirt, and testify in this vibrant, affecting portrait of teenage girls' experiences of...

I Had an Abortion
A film by Gillian Aldrich and Jennifer Baumgardner, 2005, 55 min., Color
Underneath the din of politicians posturing about "life" and "choice" and beyond the shouted slogans about murder and rights, there are real stories o...

I Need Your Full Cooperation/Underexposed
A film by Kathy High, 1989, 28 min., Color
In these two compelling videos, Kathy High explores the relationship between women’s bodies and the medical institution. Now a classic, I NEED YOUR FU...

In the Best Interests of the Children
A film by Frances Reid, Elizabeth Stevens and Cathy Zheutlin, 1977, 53 min.
This groundbreaking film on lesbian mothering portrays the diversity of experience, race and class among eight lesbian mothers and their children....

Keep Not Silent - Ortho-Dykes
A film by Ilil Alexander, 2004, 52 min., Color
Winner of the Israeli Oscar for Best Documentary, as well as eight international awards, Ilil Alexander’s stunning debut film boldly documents the cla...

Knowing Her Place
A film by Indu Krishnan, 1990, 40 min., Color
A moving investigation of the cultural schizophrenia experienced by Vasu, an Indian woman who has spent most of her life in the U.S. Vasu's relationsh...

Love & Diane
A film by Jennifer Dworkin, 2002, Color
Jennifer Dworkin’s groundbreaking documentary LOVE & DIANE presents a searingly honest and moving examination of poverty, welfare and drug rehabilitat...

The Mother: Mitos Maternos
A film by Marta Bautis, 1994, 69 min., Color
This wry, self-reflective tape explores the mythical figure of the mother from multiple viewpoints-documentary and fiction, Spanish and English, theor...

Motherlove
A film by Midge Mackenzie, 1980, 20 min., Color/BW
This moving film captures with loving detail the emotional power of Tillie Olsen's classic feminist short story I STAND HERE IRONING. Accompanied by ...

My Home - Your War
A film by Kylie Grey. Produced by Denoux Films Productions, 2006, 52 min., Color
MY HOME – YOUR WAR offers an extraordinary look at the effect of the Iraq war through the eyes of an ordinary Iraqi woman. Shot in Baghdad over three ...

900 Women
A film by Laleh Khadivi, 2000, 72 min., Color
“The Louisiana Correctional Institute is located in the swamps of southern Louisiana in the small town of St. Gabriel. Built in 1970 to house an incre...

On Becoming a Woman
Directed by Cheryl Chisholm, 1987, 90 min., Color
This extraordinary documentary provides rare insights into some important health issues for African American women. Although it was produced before A...

On the Eighth Day
A two-part film series by Gwynne Basen, 1992, 51 min., 2 in series, Color
ON THE EIGHT DAY, a two-part film series, is critical viewing about new reproductive and genetic technologies and poses disturbing questions about why...

Subrosa
A film by Helen Lee, 2000, 22 min., Color
SUBROSA traces a young woman's journey to Korea, the land of her birth, to find the mother she's never known. This exquisitely crafted drama probes th...

3 Times Divorced
A film by Ibtisam Salh Mara'ana, 2007, 74 min., Color
How does a Palestinian woman in Israel survive an abusive husband? When Gaza-born Khitam’s abusive Arab Israeli husband divorces her and gains custody...

Tillie Olsen: A Heart in Action
A film by Ann Hershey, 2007, 66 min., Color
This revelatory documentary is an inspiring homage to Tillie Lerner Olsen – a renegade, revolutionary, distinguished fiction and non-fiction writer, f...

Troop 1500
A film by Ellen Spiro & Karen Bernstein, 2005, 68 min., Color
Their mothers may be convicted thieves, murderers and drug dealers, but the girls of Troop 1500 want to be doctors, social workers and marine biologis...

Women of Substance
A documentary by Rory Kennedy and Robin Smith, 1994, 55 min., Color
With passion and clarity, WOMEN OF SUBSTANCE opens the door on the struggles and triumphs fo women overcoming addiction during pregnancy and motherhoo...

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