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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
This program offers deeply moving, inspiring, and empowering profiles of three diverse, heroic women who experienced, survived, and thrived through some of life’s harshest trials — racism, disease, poverty, war, and child abuse, emerging through the spirit of entrepreneurship. Their stories demonstrates the power of refusing to fall victim to their life challenges. One segmetn profiles a woman of color who rose from poverty, racism, teen pregnancy,...
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Professor Amanda Vickery's journey to uncover the story of female creativity reaches the 18th century. The focus turns to the industrial powerhouse that is Britain and the glittering French court of Marie Antoinette. Despite being regarded as second class citizens when it came to art, this was an era when ingenious women seized a galaxy of fresh opportunities to stamp their creativity on the age; from a designer who would revitalize the British silk...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Civilization has given humanity extraordinary advances, but what does it look like from the point of view of women? Dr. Amanda Foreman explores how early civilizations dealt with the roles and status of women and asks profound questions about the legacy they left behind. In Anatolia, she visits Catalhöyük, one of the world's earliest settlements. In Mesopotamia, she explores the world's first law codes written to regulate women's status and behavior....
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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In the final episode of her story of British women's fight for power, historian Amanda Vickery explores how the Edwardian suffragette movement became a quasi-terrorist organization and argues it is best understood as part of an ongoing equality struggle. She brings to life the enemies of female enfranchisement, from Prime Minister Herbert Asquith to the National Anti-Suffrage League. We learn about the political backroom deal that finally allowed...
5) Fly With Me
Series
American Experience volume 0
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Fly With Me tells the story of the pioneering women who became flight attendants at a time when single women were unable to order a drink, eat alone in a restaurant, own a credit card or get a prescription for birth control. The job offered unheard-of opportunities for travel and independence. These women were on the frontlines of the battle to assert gender equality and transform the workplace.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
“Forget China, India and the internet: economic growth is driven by women”, the Economist wrote in 2006, in an article titled A guide to womenomics. Over the past 10 years, the importance of gender equality to promote development, innovation and economic growth has been widely recognized. All over the world, political leaders, corporations and international organizations have realised that sexism is not just wrong but also expensive. Recent studies...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This visual documentary combines contemporary and historical perspectives. Viewers will find themselves wanting to delve into coffee-table books or take a trip to a museum. Ask people to name five photographers, from past or present, and chances are that few will think to name a woman. Highlighting Julia Margaret Cameron, Claude Cahun, Dorthea Lange, Lisette Model, Vivian Maier, Christine Spengler, and Nan Goldin-and featuring images from many more...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Apart from using people's names, pronouns are the way we express our gender and refer to other people's gender, but traditional gender pronouns (she/her, he/him) do not fit everyone's gender identity. These pronouns do not leave room for other diverse gender identities. This can be difficult for individuals who do not identify as he or she. People who identify outside of a gender binary often use pronouns that are not gender specific. It is important...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Ellen DeGeneres launched her career as a standup comedian, performing regularly at small clubs and coffee houses. At age 23, she landed her first consistent gig as an emcee at Clyde's Comedy Club in New Orleans. She began to tour. In 1986, she appeared for the first time on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, which turned out to be the exposure of a lifetime.
11) Saving Face
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Every year in Pakistan, at least 100 people are victimized by acid attacks. The majority of these are women, and many cases go unreported. With little or no access to reconstructive surgery, survivors are physically and emotionally scarred, while many reported assailants - typically a husband or someone close to the victim - are let go with minimal punishment from the state. Saving Face tells the stories of two acid-attack victims: Zakia, a 39-year...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Produced by Dr. Maryanne Galvin in 2004, this lively documentary challenges many of the commonly held beliefs about female sexuality, gender roles, and relationships. According to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, this 52 minute educational and entertaining program features seven articulate, highly diverse women discussing marriage, celibacy, sexuality, sensuality, gender roles, beauty, sisterhood, community, intimacy and work. Ranging from a Generation...
13) Story of Her
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Story of Her" is a 2022 dynamic American documentary that showcases bold stories of struggle and triumphs in the lives of everyday women.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In Asia, in the Middle East, and even in Europe, in the privacy of families that can act with impunity, over fifteen million housekeepers are victims of slavery: exploited at will, abused, and sometimes raped, these invisible women are the sacrificed workers of the global economy. States, institutions, middlemen... no one is interested in change, despite a smoldering spirit of revolt.
15) Groundbreakers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Celebrate 50 years of female excellence in sports through the eyes of athletes who changed the system. Hosted by sports icon and champion of equality Billie Jean King, the film weaves together stories of eight icons to discuss how their struggles and achievements shaped women’s sports. Features Naomi Osaka, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Chloe Kim, Nancy Lieberman, Suni Lee, Julie Foudy and Diana Flores.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Whether the subject is feminism or the fate of Western civilization, Camille does not mince her words. In a wide-ranging discussion with Nick Gillespe, she speaks about higher education, the Fourth Estate, millennials, contemporary intellectual discourse, Hillary Clinton, Madonna, and many other subjects. A Reason TV production.
18) Phallacies
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The penis. Does size really matter? Is the male organ simply a tool for sex, or is it a phallic symbol worthy of deification? To what extent is men's preoccupation with their penises responsible for the aggressive, militaristic, and violent nature of our society? These are some of the questions that this ground-breaking, but non-titillating, film covers. Note: Not surprisingly, full frontal male nudity is shown in this program. Repeat: This film is...
19) The Barbie Story
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
This documentary revisits the incredible impact that Barbie has had worldwide, from the toy’s origins in the late 1950s to the commotion around the first live action film directed by Greta Gerwig, which was nominated for 8 Academy Awards, winning one.
20) Our Quinceanera
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A high school principal in a small town in Texas hosts a yearly quinceañera for underprivileged girls. The entire border town gets together to teach these girls that with the power of community any dream can come true.
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