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.
The Women's History Month Classic Sampler collection includes the following titles:
A Healthy Start
A Sense of WonderRachel Carson's love for the natural world and her fight to defend it.
AltheaPioneering athlete Althea Gibson broke records on and off the tennis court.
Clara LemlichThe story of Clara Lemlich, a fledgling union organizer who launched the groundbreaking garment workers strike in 1909 in New York City.
Donna's StoryAn intimate portrait of a fiercely determined survivor -- Donna, a Cree woman who left behind a bleak existence on the streets.
Dry Days In DobbaguntaLiteracy program spurs anti-liquor campaign in rural India and empowers women.
Footprints of Sorrow
Guerrilla GranniesFilmmaker Ike Bertels' portrait of three women veterans of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) offers an intimate view of Mozambique's history since its 1975 independence.
Look Us in the Eye: The Old Women's ProjectFounders of the Old Women's Project, an activist organization that challenges ageism
Mary & MyselfHonors the thousands of girls and women from who were forced into sexual slavery as "comfort women" by the Japanese army during World War II.
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