WOMEN'S STUDIES LIBRARY OF FILMS

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These films are available for viewing from Media Resources, 201 Stabley. Students may view them with the equipment in the Media Resources area.


Abortion: Stories from the North and South -- a cross cultural survey filmed in countries throughout the world, it shows how abortion transcends race, religion and social class. (55 minutes The Cinema Guild)

Annapurna: A Woman's Place -- inspiring story of ten women who in 1978 did what no American had done before--climbed Annapurna, one of the world's tallest and most dangerous peaks (45 minutes Women Make Movies)

Anonymous Was a Woman -- examines the climate for artistic expression by women in the 18th and 19th century, focusing primarily on women's work in such handicrafts as quilting (30 minutes Films Incorporated)

The Artist Was a Woman -- this documentary uncovers the works of some gifted women, while exploring why such talent as theirs was overlooked (58 minutes Filmakers Library)

Body Beautiful -- exploration of a white mother who under goes a mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career, reveals the effects of body image and of racial and sexual identity (23 minutes Women Make Movies)

Boys Will Be... -- four friends get together over dinner and discover the one of them is beating his wife and in confronting their friend, each man comes to face with his own misogyny and violence (33 minutes Carle Medical Communications)

Clothesline -- a humorous look at the love/hate relationship women have with cleaning the family's clothes. this film pays homage to the commonality of women's experiences at the washboard or the laundromat (32 minutes Filmakers Library)

Daughters of the Dust -- (Baker and Taylor Video)

Diana's Hair Ego: AIDS Info Up Front -- realizing the extreme inadequacy of local information on AIDS prevention, cosmetologist Diana and her partner take on the task of educating the Black community of Columbus, South Carolina (29 minutes Women Make Movies)

Electing Women -- presents women involved in the national elections (28 minutes Great Plains National Instructional Television Library)

The Electronic Sweatshop -- shows the impersonalization of jobs through the use of computers and how speed and production have become the major goals in the Montreal, Quebec postal system (Resolution Inc./California Newsreel)

Enough Crying of Tears -- moving testimonials of three members of the Comadres, an organization of more than 700 women relatives of the disappeared in El Salvador. (28 minutes Women Make Movies)

The Famine Within -- (Direct Cinema Limited)

For Women -- explores voluntary sterilization as birth control method (34 minutes Bureau of Community Health Services)

The Global Assembly Line -- a vivid portrayal of the lives of working women and men in the "free trade zones" of developing countries, as the US industries close their factories to search the globe for lower-wage workforces. (58 minutes New Day Films)

Good Morning Monday -- a documentary in which women office workers talk candidly about their tedious, repetitive , dead-end jobs and how their work affects other aspects of their lives (30 minutes Fanlight Production)

Growing Up and Liking It -- the monthly menstruation cycle, that natural occurrence from time immemorial, has made women the object of superstition and taboo, is the subject of this fresh and often humorous video (28 minutes Filmakers Library)

Hearts and Hands -- a social history of nineteenth century women and quilts (63 minutes Hearts and Hands Media)

Holding Our Ground -- Women and children working together in the Philippines find hope through action when they organize to improve the quality of their lives (51 minutes International Film Bureau)

Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice -- documents the life and times of Ida B. Wells, the pioneering Afro-American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the late 19th and 20th century (53 minutes William Greaves Productions Inc.)

Imitation of Life Video -- (Baker and Taylor Video)

Kiss on the Mouth --  this film examines female prostitution in urban Brazil (30 minutes Women Make Movies)

Las Madres de la Plaza Mayo -- (Direct Cinema Limited)

A League of Their Own -- (The Original Documentary) true story that inspired the major motion picture about the women's national baseball league during World War II (27 minutes Filmakers Library)

The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter -- five women reminisce about their jobs and working conditions during World War II (65 minutes Direct Cinema Limited)

Living -- describes the life and activities of the rural peasants of Maoping village, Zhejing province. details women's activities, family relations, farming and village politics and government (57 minutes Time-Life Video)

Love, Women and Flowers -- a horror story of hazardous labor conditions for the sixty thousand women who work in Columbia's flower industry (58 minutes Women Make Movies)

Machismo -- shows machismo flourishing in Brazil, where a man can kill his wife because he thinks she may have glanced at another man and how they feel that this is an act of honor (14 minutes Films for the Humanities and Sciences)

A Man's Woman -- this docudrama offers an intriguing analysis of the ideological and social implications of the anti-feminist movement (52 minutes The Cinema Guild)

Mirror, Mirror - exploration of the relationship between a woman's body image and the quest for the idealized female form (17 minutes Women Make Movies)

Motherlove -- accompanied by flashbacks to the depression era, a woman quietly reminisces about the struggle of raising a daughter alone (20 minutes Women Make Movies)

Myths that Maim -- images of our culture that show patterns of dominance and subordination that lead to violence and abuse (45 minutes Encinitas Center for Family and Personal Learning)

No Longer Silent -- women in India break their tolerant silence and come together to work against sex discrimination (57 minutes International Film Bureau)

One Fine Day

Take the Power -- these two inspirational images from Kay weaver and Martha Wheelock have become feminist classics (6 and 7 minutes Ishtar Films)

Out of Suburbia -- (The Story of Eleven Lesbians) revealing documentary shattering the stereotypes held by many people unfamiliar with the gay community (28 minutes Filmakers Library)

Positive Images: Portraits of Women with Disabilities -- designed to provide positive, realistic pictures of the lives of women with disabilities and the social, economic and political issues they face (58 minutes Women Make Movies)

The Presence of the Goddess -- explores the history and spirit of the female principle in western civilization, documents the women's contributions to the history of a mankind (68 minutes Balcorman Films)

Rites - this program explores the custom of female circumcision which has been commonplace throughout history (52 minutes Filmakers Library)

Samantha "Rastles" the Women Question -- Jane Currey and the nineteenth century Marietta Holley character she portrays in the live performance and videorecording entitled Samantha "rastles" the women question, respond to audience questions dealing with how Samantha would deal with the concerns of women in the 1980's (45 minutes Cornell University Audio-Visual Resource Center)

She's Nobody's Baby -- hosts Alan Alda and Marlo Thomas trace the evolution of the roles and lives of women in the 20th century (36 minutes Ms. Magazine Production)

Small Happiness -- an exploration of sexual politics and the reality of life in contemporary, rural China. Chinese women of Long Bow speak frankly about footbindings, the new birth control policy, work, love and marriage (58 minutes Long Bow Group)

Space for Women -- interviews women employed in NASA's space transportation programs and shows the variety of jobs that they hold (28 minutes National Audivision Center)

Still Killing Us Softly -- discusses the manner in which women are portrayed by advertising and the effects this has on women and their image of themselves ( 32 minutes Cambridge Documentary Films)

Strangers in Good Company -- eight old women stranded in the wilds of northern Quebec with little to eat, nowhere to sleep and not very much in common, turn a crisis into a magical time of humor and sharing (105 minutes First Run/Icarus Films)

Taking Our Bodies Back: The Women's Health Movement -- exploring the critical areas of the women's health movement, this film documents a growing movement of women to regain control of their bodies in the face of the medical industry ( 33 minutes Cambridge Documentary Films)

Tell Someone! -- a program for combatting sexual harassment (60 minutes University of Michigan)

Things You Mother Never Told You -- forty women from diverse ages and backgrounds, who have each raised grown children, share their perceptions on many aspects of being a mother (58 minutes Filmakers Library)

To Have and To Hold -- interviews with men who used to batter women but who sought help from Emerge: a men's counseling service on Domestic Violence in Boston ( 20 minutes New Day Films)

The Ultimate Test Animal -- this documentary examines the birth control injection Depo Provera and the international controversy over its use (40 minutes The Cinema Guild)

Very Enterprising Women -- shows how women have started their own businesses and what is needed to make it as a women in the business world (15 minutes National Audiovision Center)

Waking Up to Rape -- this is a powerful film that examines the personal trauma of rape, its long-term psychological effects, societal attitudes about sexual assault and the problem of racism in the criminal justice system (35 minutes Women Make Movies)

With Babies and Banners -- combines the archival footage and interviews with participants to trace the role of women in the formation of the United Auto Workers (45 minutes New Day Films)

Woman's Place -- the ceremonies surrounding childbirth are the jumping off point for a recreation of the rites simulating the creation of the world, illustrates the realm of women in ancient Egypt (23 minutes Films for the Humanities and Sciences)

Women of Steel -- story told in the words of four former female steelworkers about their work and life in the steel mills (28 minutes Mon Valley Media)

The Women of Summer -- tells the story of the Bryn Mawr's summer school for women workers, a controversial education experiment held between 1921 and 1938 ( 57 minutes Filmakers Library)

Working for Your Life -- explores the health and safety conditions of America's working women by examining the hazards and demands they face in their workplaces (58 minutes Labor Occupational Health Program Films)

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