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Women's History Month Classic Sampler

This sampler of films celebrates women's history and the struggle for equality and equity. Designed as both a streaming starting package, as well as a programming suggestion, the package includes the six-film series A WOMAN'S PLACE, about women and development around the world by local women directors; and examining the forces shaping society's image of women -- and women's self-image; and stories of remarkable women who changed history.

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The Women's History Month Classic Sampler includes the following titles:

Mary & Myself - imageMary & Myself

Honors the thousands of girls and women from who were forced into sexual slavery as "comfort women" by the Japanese army during World War II.

National Film Board of Canada | 2014 | 7 minutes
Not The Numbers Game - imageNot The Numbers Game

The role of women in solving development and population problems worldwide.  (BBC Version)

Bullfrog Films | 1997 | 44 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Teach a Woman How to Fish And... - imageTeach a Woman How to Fish And...
Sea farming empowers women in Fiji.
Bullfrog Films | 1996 | 10 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
The Alarm Rings Softly - imageThe Alarm Rings Softly

Caribbean women use drama and reggae to fight domestic violence.

Bullfrog Films | 1996 | 12 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
The Amahs of Hong Kong - imageThe Amahs of Hong Kong

Filipino women exploited as maids in Hong Kong.

Bullfrog Films | 1996 | 11 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Women's Voices: The Gender Gap - imageWomen's Voices: The Gender Gap

An exploration of the growing difference in the voting patterns of men and women in the mid-1980's.

Kartemquin Films | 1984 | 16 minutes

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