How a sexual assault in the Jim Crow South triggered an unprecedented outcry 2017 | Running Time: 91 minutes | Rating: NR Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. During the Jim Crow South, black women...
Dispelling myths of domestic abuse 2014 | Running Time: 80 minutes | Rating: TV-14 PRIVATE VIOLENCE explores the disturbing fact that the most dangerous place for a woman in America to be is her own home. Every day in the US, at least four women are murdered by...
Women in a substance abuse treatment program share their stories 2014 | Running Time: 57 minutes | Rating: NR Five mothers struggle to overcome substance abuse disorders in a gender-responsive treatment program, each of them motivated by the goal of achieving custody...
How Media Influences Self-Image and the Gender Gap 2011 | Running Time: 85 minutes | Rating: NR MISS REPRESENTATION exposes how mainstream media and culture contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America. The film draws...
A portrait of an American icon, writer and civil rights activist 2016 | Running Time: 114 minutes | Rating: NR Maya Angelou has lived not one life, but half a dozen. While she’s best known as a poet and best-selling author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, her life...
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