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Throughout his career, Martin Scorsese has brilliantly documented the world around him. Not since Mean Streets had a subject seemed more tailor-made for his talents…
MORE ›Mighty Times revisits a familiar historical event—the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 and 1956—with a focus on the leadership role of Rosa Parks and the…
MORE ›A film about two-time Olympian Chris Ernst, who galvanized her rowing team to storm the Yale athletic director’s office in 1976 to protest the lack…
MORE ›International Sweethearts of Rhythm was one of the first interracial, all-women jazz bands. Performing in the 1940s—a time when most women musicians, however talented, were…
MORE ›This Academy Award-nominated documentary about the Argentinean mothers’ movement to demand to know the fate of the 30,000 “disappeared” sons and daughters remains as extraordinarily…
MORE ›An on the road journey with comedienne Lily Tomlin and her collaborator Jane Wagner as they mount her Tony Award-winning, one-woman show, The Search for…
MORE ›Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were two of the most significant pioneers fighting for women’s rights. Creating a women’s movement where none existed…
MORE ›The story of how the birth control pill came into being, fueling the women’s movement and encouraging more open attitudes about sex. The film reveals…
MORE ›Maggie Lauterer, a popular TV anchor and mountain girl, decides to run for Congress in her home district of western North Carolina. This cinema-verité portrait…
MORE ›On April 20, 1971, Norman Mailer met with a diverse group of feminists, appearing on a panel at New York City’s Town Hall to discuss…
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