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The Women's Studies Collection

The Women's Studies Collection brings together over 160 films that present the stories of women around the world. From the experience of single mothers in Korea; to teenage girls in prison staging a musical; to films exploring women's relationship to their bodies; crimes of honor, bride kidnapping, and sex trafficking; the makeover industry; mail order brides; women and Islam; domestic violence in Cambodia and Pakistan; girls and guns; philosophers, filmmakers and scientists; women organizing and taking charge of their lives -- The Women's Studies Collection is a broad assembly exploring almost every facet of women's lives.

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The Women's Studies Collection includes the following titles:

Jane Campion: Passionless Moments - imageJane Campion: Passionless Moments

A series of wry vignettes: SEAN AND ARNOLD NOT SPEAKING; SCOTTIES, PART OF THE GRAND DESIGN OF THE UNIVERSE; ANGELA EATS MEATS, IRONING ON SUNDAY, and others...

Women Make Movies | 1983 | 13 minutes
Jane Campion: Peel - imageJane Campion: Peel

On a hot Australian summer's day, a recalcitrant, freckled, red-headed family of three go on a Sunday drive in the country. Their outing results in an intrigue of awesome belligerence.

Women Make Movies | 1982 | 9 minutes
Judith Butler - imageJudith Butler

An up-close and personal encounter with this influential philosopher and gender theorist.

Icarus Films | 2006 | 52 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Killing Time/Fannie's Film - imageKilling Time/Fannie's Film

Part of the mediamaking movement that first gave centrality to the voices and experiences of African American women during the late Seventies and early Eighties, these two re-releases – KILLING TIME and FANNIE’S FILM – are no less groundbreaking today.

Women Make Movies | 1979 | 24 minutes
Latest News from the Cosmos - imageLatest News from the Cosmos

It wasn't until Helene was 20 years old that her parents discovered that their autistic daughter was able not only communicate, but to write deeply complex, philosophical and poetic work.

Icarus Films | 2016 | 85 minutes
Let's Face It-Women Explore Their Aging Faces - imageLet's Face It-Women Explore Their Aging Faces

A touching and honest glimpse into the intimate self-explorations of several women in their 40's, 50's, and 60's as they face the natural reality of sags and bags, lines and wrinkles.

Terra Nova Films | 2002 | 26 minutes
Letters from our Lives - imageLetters from our Lives

Disabled women write open letters to the world about their plight.

Bullfrog Films | 1992 | 26 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Liberation: The User's Guide - imageLiberation: The User's Guide

Julia, Ina, Olga and Katia are inmates held in a Siberian mental facility against their wishes.

Icarus Films | 2016 | 80 minutes
All Different, All Equal - imageAll Different, All Equal
Examines progress in women's rights globally.
Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 24 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
At the End of a Gun - imageAt the End of a Gun
The devastating effect that the civil war in Sri Lanka is having on women.
Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 25 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult

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