We are excited to announce that WMM new and recent releases are now streaming on 1stLook, powered by Docuseek, making urgent and transformative films available earlier in their release life. This partnership expands access to stories that challenge dominant narratives and spark critical conversation, allowing colleges, universities, and schools to license hosted streaming for these titles for 1 or 3 years, or life of file and ensuring these films are seen and discussed as soon and as widely as possible. Discover the titles available on 1stLook below.
CODED BIAS
Directed by Shalini Kantayya
Before ChatGPT, before mass AI surveillance, and just when algorithms were beginning to quietly make decisions about who gets hired, policed, or denied opportunity, there was CODED BIAS, an essential introduction to algorithmic literacy. The film follows MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini as she uncovers a chilling reality: facial recognition systems consistently fail women and people with darker skin. Her discovery exposes a much larger truth — modern AI reflects the values and blind spots of the people who build it. As governments and corporations race to deploy artificial intelligence at unprecedented scale, CODED BIASshows how early warnings went unheeded, and why the fight for algorithmic justice has only become more urgent.
BYE BYE TIBERIAS
Directed by Lina Soualem
BYE BYE TIBERIAS follows acclaimed actor Hiam Abbass as she returns to her Palestinian village decades after leaving to pursue a life in France, joined by her filmmaker daughter, Lina Soualem. What begins as a homecoming becomes an intimate reckoning with exile, motherhood, and the choices women make to survive and dream. Moving across generations, the film weaves family memories and archival footage to honor four Palestinian women bound by love, loss, and resilience. Directed by Lina Soualem, the film is a tender portrait of inheritance, displacement, and the power of women to carry history forward when home is never guaranteed.
SALLY!
Directed by Deborah Craig, Ondine Rarey, and Jörg Fockele
SALLY! explores the life and legacy of Sally Gearhart, a trailblazing lesbian-feminist, activist, professor, and fantasy author who played a pivotal role in the 1970s and ’80s U.S. lesbian feminist movement. Often overlooked due to the patriarchal lens of history, Sally Gearhart’s contributions are brought to light alongside an honest examination of her contradictions and iconoclasm. The film balances humor, insight, and heart to celebrate her impact while reflecting on the collective, layered nature of social movements. SALLY!is both a tribute to a radical icon and a meditation on the lessons her work offers for ongoing struggles for justice and equality.
A SHOT AT HISTORY
Directed by Erika Cohn
At a moment when vaccine safeguards are being rolled back and public confidence in science is under pressure, A SHOT AT HISTORY offers a vital reminder of what’s at stake. The film follows Dr. Nita Patel, who led an all-female team to develop a lifesaving COVID-19 vaccine, as she confronts grief, legacy, and the personal cost of global responsibility. As political decisions reshape public health protections, her story grounds the vaccine debate in lived experience — revealing how scientific breakthroughs are built on trust, rigor, and human sacrifice. A SHOT AT HISTORY reframes vaccination not as ideology, but as a moral and collective commitment, while spotlighting the women whose leadership is too often erased from the narrative of medical progress.
MY SEXTORTION DIARY
Directed by Patricia Franquesa
As online sexploitation and predatory harassment escalate faster than laws and platforms can respond, MY SEXTORTION DIARY offers a rare, first-person look at how digital abuse actually unfolds. When Pati receives a chilling threat demanding money to prevent the release of her intimate photos — and authorities prove unable and unwilling to help — she documents every step of her ordeal in real time. Through texts, emails, and self-recorded videos, the film exposes sextortion not as an isolated crime, but as a systemic failure of online safety. By reclaiming her story with honesty, humor, and resilience, Pati transforms private terror into public testimony — asserting bodily autonomy and dignity in a digital world that too often protects perpetrators over survivors.
THE UNFIXING
Directed by Nicole Betancourt
After a surfing accident leaves Nicole unable to work or care for her children, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery, grappling with grief, trauma, and environmental crises. Her older child, Pilar, falls seriously ill with chronic Lyme disease, intensifying Nicole’s struggle to cope. Guided by dreams, nature, and memories of her late father, she slowly finds moments of connection and renewal, culminating in a transformative experience at an alpine lake. Through this journey, Nicole learns to transform sorrow into resilience, hope, and a renewed sense of possibility.
IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?
Directed by Ella Bee Glendining
IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE? follows filmmaker Ella Bee Glendining as she navigates a world not built for her body while searching for someone who shares her rare condition. Born without hip joints, Ella turns the camera inward and outward, confronting daily ableism, longing for recognition, and the deep human need to be seen. Along the way, unexpected encounters challenge assumptions about beauty, normalcy, and belonging. Directed by Ella Bee Glendining, the film is warm, funny, and quietly radical, offering an intimate exploration of self-love, visibility, and what it means to claim joy in a body the world refuses to understand.
BELLY OF THE BEAST
Directed by Erika Cohn
BELLY OF THE BEAST follows a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer as they uncover a horrifying pattern of illegal sterilizations inside California’s women’s prisons. Filmed over seven years with extraordinary access, the film reveals how incarcerated women, primarily women of color, were subjected to coercive medical practices rooted in modern-day eugenics. Directed by Erika Cohn, this Emmy-winning documentary exposes a system built on reproductive injustice, secrecy, and abuse of power, while centering the resilience and resistance of those who refuse to be erased. It is a searing investigation and a vital call to confront an ongoing human rights crisis.
FANNIE LOU HAMER’S AMERICA
Directed by Joy Davenport; Prod. Monica Land
FANNIE LOU HAMER’S AMERICA traces the life and legacy of Mississippi sharecropper turned civil rights powerhouse Fannie Lou Hamer, one of the most fearless leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. Through electrifying speeches, personal interviews, and the songs that fueled a movement, the film follows Hamer’s fight to dismantle voter suppression, organize Freedom Summer, and demand justice in the face of brutal opposition. Directed by Joy Davenport and produced by Monica Land, this award-winning documentary brings urgency and intimacy to a story that remains painfully relevant, reminding us why Hamer’s voice still echoes through America’s unfinished struggle for democracy.
DAUGHTER OF A LOST BIRD
Directed by Brooke Pepion Swaney
DAUGHTER OF A LOST BIRD follows Kendra Mylnechuk Potter, a Native woman adopted into a white family, as she searches for her birth mother and reconnects with her Lummi roots. As Kendra returns to her ancestral homeland alongside her mother April, also a Native adoptee, the film traces an intimate journey of belonging, grief, and reclamation. Directed by Brooke Swaney (Blackfeet/Salish), this deeply personal documentary reveals how adoption functions as a tool of assimilation, and how reconnecting with culture becomes an act of survival, resistance, and healing across generations.
MY STOLEN PLANET
Directed by Farahnaz Sharifi
As Iran once again dominates global headlines — amid escalating threats from the U.S. and Israel and the arrest of reformists at home — MY STOLEN PLANET turns our attention to the lives most often erased by geopolitical narratives. The film follows Farah, an Iranian woman born in 1979 at the moment the Islamic Revolution reshaped her country and her fate. Through intimate, diary-like narration, personal archives, and haunting 8mm footage of strangers, she traces decades of private joy and quiet defiance under an increasingly repressive state. Directed by Farahnaz Sharifi, MY STOLEN PLANET reminds us that beneath the rhetoric of regimes and retaliation are women fighting to preserve memory, love, and dignity in a country where visibility itself can be an act of resistance.
LOOKING FOR SIMONE
Directed by Nathalie Masduraud and Valérie Urréa
LOOKING FOR SIMONE uncovers the surprising origins of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, revealing that her groundbreaking feminist manifesto was inspired by a fact-finding trip across the United States in 1947. Through archival material and sharp analysis, the film traces how de Beauvoir developed her critique of male domination in a world on the brink of naming the “patriarchy.” Featuring insights from thinkers like Judith Butler and Silvia Federici, it examines both the enduring impact and the limitations of de Beauvoir’s work. Blending past and present, LOOKING FOR SIMONE invites viewers to reflect on 75 years of evolving feminist thought and the continued fight for a more inclusive future.
MY NAME IS ANDREA
Directed by Pratibha Parmar
MY NAME IS ANDREA is a bold, hybrid documentary portrait of feminist writer and public intellectual Andrea Dworkin, whose uncompromising analysis of male supremacy reshaped feminist thought. Directed by Pratibha Parmar, the film revisits Dworkin’s fearless critiques of sexism and rape culture decades before #MeToo, tracing how her ideas emerged from the civil rights movement and demanded that women be recognized as fully human. Blending rare archival footage with powerful performances of Dworkin’s words, the film reclaims her legacy as urgent, provocative, and profoundly relevant today.
STATELESS
Directed by Michèle Stephenson
STATELESS is a haunting and urgent documentary from Michèle Stephenson that exposes how racism, nationalism, and power collide in the Dominican Republic. Blending hidden-camera footage with elements of magical realism, the film traces the roots of anti-Black violence from the 1937 massacre of Haitians to a 2013 court ruling that stripped citizenship from more than 200,000 people of Haitian descent. Centered on a fearless young attorney fighting for justice, STATELESS reveals how state-sanctioned racism seeps into mundane offices, living room meetings, and street protests. At a time when extremist ideologies are gaining momentum in the U.S. and around the world, this film offers a warning of what can happen in a society when racism runs rampant in the government.
WITHOUT A WHISPER
Directed by Katsitsionni Fox
WITHOUT A WHISPER – KONNON:KWE reveals a missing chapter in U.S. history, uncovering the profound influence Indigenous women had on the origins of the women’s rights movement. Long before Seneca Falls, Haudenosaunee women held political, social, and spiritual power that astonished early suffragists and helped shape their vision of equality. Following Mohawk Bear Clan Mother Louise Herne and scholar Sally Roesch Wagner, the film reframes a movement we thought we knew — restoring Indigenous women to their rightful place at its foundation and challenging how history has been told.
