Documentaries for Women's History Month
In celebration of Women's History Month, we are highlighting a number of documentaries from our collection that uplift and center women's stories. They are available for streaming and purchase educational distribution for schools, non-profits, community organizations, libraries, and corporations. We hope you use these films to support necessary and important conversations across your communities.
Check out the full collection here.
THE NEST - In a house full of secrets, centuries of forgotten matriarchs emerge to reveal untold stories of resistance and resilience
THE FIGHT FOR BLACK LIVES - Explores whether the persistently higher rate of Black maternal and infant mortality is inevitable because it is “located in the inferior body of the negro” or preventable because it is located in “inferior social conditions.”
THE DATING GAME - In a country where eligible men outnumber women by 30 million, three perpetual bachelors join an intensive seven-day dating camp led by one of China’s most sought-after dating coaches in a last-ditch effort to find a girl, and love
HANNAH ARENDT: FACING TYRANNY - The extraordinary life and work of one of the most influential and fearless political thinkers of the 20th Century
VIVIEN'S WILD RIDE - After a long career in cinema, film editor Vivien Hillgrove starts losing her sight, forcing her to reexamine past traumas and relationships, and to reinvent herself and her art
THE INVISIBLE CONTRACT - A reflection on the concept of invisibility, narrated by women who clean public spaces in Mexico City
OUTLIERS AND OUTLAWS - The hundreds of lesbians who migrated to Eugene, Oregon from the 1960s-90s agreed on one thing: everything was going to be different
