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Tiny and Ruby: Hell Divin’ Women (1989)
Tiny and Ruby: Hell Divin’ Women is a documentary tribute to the lives of jazz musicians Ernestine “Tiny” Davis and Ruby Lucas, including their forty year romantic partnership. The ladies’ careers...
View ArticleMaquilapolis
Title: Maquilapolis Year: Directors: Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre Released in 2006, Maquilapolis details the struggles of women working for $11 per day in factories on the US-Mexico border. The...
View ArticleFtF: Female to Femme, Directed by Kami Chisholm and Elizabeth Stark (San...
FtF: Female to Femme provides an intimate look into the community created by femme lesbian women in California in the early 2000s, and the struggles these women face as their sexuality, gender...
View ArticleMiss Representation
Miss Representation, directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, is a documentary that focuses on the media representation of women and the effect this has on women in society. The main points of the...
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She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry (2014), Dir. Mary Dore Synopsis: Dore’s film covers a huge range of issues in the rise of the women’s movement, mostly between 1966 (beginning a few years back with...
View ArticleGideon’s Army
Gideon’s Army (2013) directed by Dawn Porter documents the personal and professional lives of three public defenders working for the criminal court systems in Georgia and Mississippi. Toggling...
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The American Nurse (Dir: Carolyn Jones, 2014)
The American Nurse: Healing America is an American documentary directed by Carolyn Jones as part of a larger project covering American nurses. The American Nurse project, started in 2011, is a...
View ArticleHarlan County, USA
Harlan County, USA, an Oscar-winning documentary directed and produced by prominent filmmaker Barbara Kopple in 1976, is an incredibly moving film that tells the story – using an intersection of the...
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Lesbian Avengers Eat Fire, Too
Lesbian Avengers Eat Fire, Too (2013), Dir. Su Friedrich and Janet Baus (lesbianavengers.com) Lesbian Avengers Eat Fire, Too documents the 1992-1993 activities of a New York chapter of the lesbian...
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India’s Daughter (Leslee Udwin, 2015)
Indian women participate in a candle light vigil on the anniversary of the gang rape in 2012. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal) Synopsis: India’s Daughter tells the story of an infamous gang rape that...
View ArticleDon’t Tell Anyone / No le digas a nadie
Don’t Tell Anyone follows the story of undocumented immigrant Angy Rivera and her family as she comes out to the public as undocumented. Against the wishes of her mother, who is also undocumented,...
View ArticleTrapped (Dir. Dawn Porter, 2016)
Trapped (Dir. Dawn Porter, 2016) Director: Dawn Porter Year: 2016 Initial Release Date: January 24 Country of origin: USA Running time: 81 minutes Trapped narrowly presents the legal battle over a...
View ArticleRate It X
Related Subjects Sexism, documentary, pornography, advertising Synopsis Rate It X is a provocative documentary on sexism in America (or at least America in the 80s). Both funny and disturbing, the...
View ArticleDon’t Tell Anyone (No Le Digas a Nadie)
This documentary, directed by Mikaela Shwer, tells the story of Angy Rivera, a young undocumented woman living in New York City with her family. Rivera (who was born in Colombia) and her mother both...
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No Girls Allowed (dir. Darlene Craviotto, 2011)
Filmmaker: Darlene Craviotto Year: 2011 Country of origin: United States Running Time: 52 min. Original Format: Digital Video, DVD Tripod Website Up until 1983, Philadelphia’s Central High School...
View ArticleMonday’s Girls
Monday’s Girls, directed by the British-Nigerian filmmaker Ngozi Onwurah, opens by introducing the viewer to two young women from Ogoloma, a fishing town in the southern Rivers State of Nigeria as...
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Girlhood (Dir: Liz Garbus, 2003)
The film’s protagonists, Megan Jensen and Shanae Watkins The documentary “Girlhood” follows the lives of two girls, Shanae and Megan, from 1999-2002, during and shortly after their release from Waxter...
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Hooligan Sparrow
Women’s rights activist, Ye Hiayan (AKA Hooligan Sparrow), holds a sign which reads, “All China Women’s Federation is a Farce. China’s Women’s Rights are Dead.” Source: https://hooligansparrow.com/...
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Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life
(image from amazon.com) This two part documentary was designed by activists and community organizers directly impacted by the violence of incarceration, as a tool to educate communities about the...
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Strong Island (2017)
Source: delmarvalife.com Filmmaker: Yance Ford Year: 2017 Running Time: 107 minutes Country of Origin: United States Streaming: Netflix Synopsis: Filmmaker Yance Ford, in this achingly personal...
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