Women&#8217;s Studies

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I’m Doing My Job

I’m Doing My Job follows 6 young, female South Asian & Black emergency medical physicians’ lives throughout the pandemic in NYC.

Director: Aneri Shah

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 47 min.

Year of production: 2022

Picture a Scientist

PICTURE A SCIENTIST is a documentary on women scientists overcoming bias, revolutionizing science, on a journey to meet diverse scientific luminaries

Director: Ian Cheney | Sharon Shattuck

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 97/56 min.

Year of production: 2020

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America to Me

Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Steve James examines racial, economic and class issues in contemporary American education in the multipart unscripted documentary series. Witness it through their eyes.

Director: Steve James

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 10 one-hour episodes

Year of production: 2018

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DOLORES

Dolores Huerta fought tirelessly alongside Chavez for racial and labor justice and became one of the most defiant feminists of the twentieth century. The fight continues...

Director: Peter Bratt

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 96 min.

Year of production: 2017

Girl Rising 5th Anniversary Edition

The updated film features new research on girl’s education, video updates on the girls, and videos from the Girl Rising movement featuring students, teachers, and community leaders taking action for girls’ education

Director: Richard E. Robbins

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 101 min.

Year of production: 2017

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Battleground

As the nation faces the end of Roe v. Wade, follow three women leading formidable anti-abortion organizations to witness the enormous influence they wield at the intersection and future of abortion and politics in America.

Director: Cynthia Lowen

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 103 min.

Year of production: 2022

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The 8th

The 8th traces Ireland’s campaign to remove the 8th Amendment – a constitutional ban on abortion, forging a new progressive path when reproductive rights are threatened all over the world

Director: Aideen Kane | Lucy Kennedy | Maeve O’Boyle

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 95 min.

Year of production: 2020

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Roll Red Roll

Roll Red Roll is a true-crime thriller that goes behind the headlines to uncover the deep-seated and social media-fueled "boys will be boys" culture at the root of high school sexual assault in America.

Director: Nancy Schwartzman

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 81 min.

Year of production: 2018

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The World Before Her

A provocative portrait of Indian women and their current cultural conflicts.

Director: Nisha Pahuja

Language: English, Hindi (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 57 / 90 min.

Year of production: 2012

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Trapped

With U.S. abortion clinics are fighting to survive, what remains of a woman's right to choose?

Director: Dawn Porter

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 83 min.

Year of production: 2016

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The Hunting Ground

A startling exposé of sexual assault on U.S. college campuses, institutional cover-ups and the brutal social toll on victims and their families.

Director: Kirby Dick

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 102 min.

Year of production: 2015

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RBG

Hero. Icon. Dissenter. RBG explores the life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Director: Betsy West | Julie Cohen

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 98 min.

Year of production: 2018

RUTH – Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words

The improbable story of how Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who couldn’t get a job after graduating at the top of her law class, became a revered Justice of the Supreme Court and icon for gender equality and human rights

Director: Freida Lee Mock

Language: English (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 89 min.

Year of production: 2021

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Tempestad

The emotional journeys of two women victimized by corruption and injustice in Mexico and of the love, dignity and resistance that allowed them to survive.

Director: Tatiana Huezo

Language: Spanish (with full English subtitles available)

Running Time: 105 min.

Year of production: 2016