The Rape of Recy Taylor

The Rape of Recy Taylor

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...
Private Violence

Private Violence

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...
On Life’s Terms: Mothers in Recovery

On Life’s Terms: Mothers in Recovery

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...
Miss Representation

Miss Representation

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...
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

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...