Abortion: Stories from North and South (1984)
• November 9th, 1984 • 0h 55min
Documentary
Overview
Women have always sought ways to terminate unwanted pregnancies, despite powerful patriarchal structures and systems working against them. This film provides a historical overview of how church, state and the medical establishment have determined policies concerning abortion. From this cross-cultural survey--filmed in Ireland, Japan, Thailand, Peru, Colombia, and Canada--emerges one reality: only a small percentage of the world's women has access to safe, legal operations.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Nanook of the North
Released on: 1922-06-11
Documentary, Drama
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
Stories of A
Released on: 1974-10-16
Documentary
French documentary campaigning for the liberalization of abortion and contraception, directed by Cha...
Wide Boyz II – Slender Gentlemen
Released on: 2014-12-31
Adventure, Documentary
After their success climbing the world’s hardest offwidth, the Wide Boyz, Pete Whittaker and Tom Ran...
Follow Me
Released on: 1969-04-25
Documentary
Documentary about two boys and a girl who travel to surfing spots around the world.
In the Name of All Canadians
Released on: 2017-06-30
Documentary
Hot Docs will commemorate Canada's 150th anniversary of Confederation with the commissioning of In t...
Paper City
Released on: 2021-08-16
Documentary
Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continui...
The Cove
Released on: 2009-07-31
Documentary
The Cove tells the amazing true story of how an elite team of individuals, films makers and free div...
Leona's Sister Gerri
Released on: 1995-11-02
Documentary, TV Movie
Millions have seen the photograph, and no one who has seen it will ever forget it. A naked woman, de...
Gringo Trails
Released on: 2014-01-01
Drama, Documentary, Adventure
Are tourists destroying the planet-or saving it? How do travelers change the remote places they visi...
September Five at Saint-Henri
Released on: 1962-09-05
Documentary
This short film is a series of vignettes of life in Saint-Henri, a Montreal working-class district, ...
MEGUMI The Campaign
Released on: 1989-10-21
Documentary, Music
Megumi Odaka (小高恵美) idol VHS tape, Megumi the Campaign - Idol Roke Zenkoku Jyuudan, 1989. She is be...
The Man of a Thousand Songs
Released on: 2010-12-02
Documentary
A feature length documentary about extraordinary Canadian singer songwriter, Ron Hynes... an insight...
Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the 70's Generation
Released on: 1999-09-20
Documentary
Canadian director Catherine Annau's debut work is a documentary about the legacy of Pierre Trudeau, ...
Martha of the North
Released on: 2009-01-23
Documentary
In the mid-1950s, lured by false promises of a better life, Inuit families were displaced by the Can...
Play It Loud! How Toronto Got Soul
Released on: 2024-12-04
Music, Documentary
In early 1960s Toronto, a white, Anglo-centric city, an underground music scene emerged from the Jam...
The Corporation
Released on: 2003-09-10
Documentary
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational mod...
Touching the Void
Released on: 2003-09-05
Documentary, Action, Adventure, Drama
The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m ...
Shameless Propaganda
Released on: 2013-07-01
Documentary
This feature documentary examines its own genre, which has often been called Canada's national art f...
My Boyfriend, The Sex Tourist
Released on: 2007-12-18
Documentary
A look at global sex tourism, focusing on the situation in Venezuela and Thailand.
Women in the Shadows
Released on: 1991-01-01
Documentary, History
Filmed on location in Saskatchewan from the Qu'Appelle Valley to Hudson Bay, the documentary traces ...