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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A provocative, rousing and often humorous account of the birth of the modern women's liberation movement in the late 1960s through to its contemporary manifestations in the new millennium, direct from the women who lived it. Best Documentary winner at the **Independent Film Festival Boston**. Nominated for Best Documentary at the **Women Film Critics Circle Awards**. "*One of the year's best films. An urgent, illuminating dive into the headwaters...
2) Daisies
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
Czech
Description
Two teenage girls decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them.
3) Suffragette
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true events, a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of the women who risked everything in their fight for equality in early 20th century Britain. The story centers on Maud, a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.'s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst, Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1039
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Director approved Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
On April 30, 1971, a standing-room-only crowd of New York₂s intellectual elite packed the city₂s Town Hall theater to see Norman Mailer, fresh from the controversy over his essay ₁The Prisoner of Sex₂ and the backlash it received from leaders of the women₂s movement, tangle with a panel of four prominent female thinkers and activists: Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Diana Trilling.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Nederlands
Description
A question of silence: When three women with no previous acquaintance kill a male shopkeeper in the middle of the day, the female psychiatrist assigned to the case sets out to understand why.
Broken mirrors: Set in an Amsterdam brothel, two prostitutes rebel against their lot in life. Meanwhile one of their customers kidnaps a woman.
The last island: Five men and two women, marooned survivors of an air crash, discover that they may be the only survivors...
7) Misbehaviour
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A group of women conspire to disrupt the Miss World beauty pageant in London.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Told first-hand by some of Hollywood's leading voices behind and in front of the camera, THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING uncovers what is beneath one of the most confounding dilemmas in the entertainment industry - the under-representation and misrepresentation of women. It takes an incisive look at the history, empirical evidence, and systemic forces that foster gender discrimination and thus reinforce disparity in our culture. Most importantly,...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When an injured male leftist on the run discovers the remote stronghold of the Female Liberation Army - a radical feminist terrorist group whose mission is to usher in a female world order, one of the members takes pity on him and hides him in the basement. However, the man in the basement is just one of many secrets threatening to disrupt the FLA's mission from within.
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A journey inside the world of a legend of modern art and an icon of feminism. Onscreen, the nonagenarian Louise Bourgeois is magnetic, mercurial and emotionally raw. An uncompromising artist whose life and work are imbued with her ongoing obsession with the mysteries of childhood. Her process is on full display in this intimate documentary, which features the artist in her studio and with her installations, shedding light on her intentions and inspirations....
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The amazing untold story of the radical underground radio station WBCN-FM set against the profound social, political and cultural changes of the late-1960s and early-70s, using the actual sights, sounds and stories of those who connected through the station, exploding music and countercultural scenes, militant anti-war and civil rights protests and emerging women's and LGBTQ-liberation movements.
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"The sensational true story of the Women's Liberation Movement's disruption of the 1970 Miss World pageant, an event watched by more than 100 million viewers, and which made headlines around the world. Not only that, when order was restored, the first woman of color was crowned Miss World. In a matter of hours, a global audience had witnessed the patriarchy driven from the stage and the Western ideal of beauty turned on its head." --
17) Radical grace
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"What does it mean for women to be both devoted to and in conflict with a powerful religious institution? A riveting example of feminist disobedience, Radical Grace follows three extraordinary American Catholic nuns, including Sister Simone Campbell, who plays a pivotal role in the organization of the Nuns on the bus, who faithfully honor their vow of obedience to God, even when it means angering the Church hierarchy. As modern-day feminist nuns,...
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