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.

This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United St...

By mid-1945, Hitler is dead and the war has ended in Europe. Halfway around the world, however, the ...

A journey into the unique, often bizarre, world of Japanese cat culture. Cat themed cafes, bars, tem...
Three intrepid women battle for Indigenous women's treaty rights.

The tombs of the grand lords of Moche civilization - one of Peru's most important pre-Hispanic civil...

Intimate confessions, paired with experimental choreography outside a woman’s clinic in Memphis, off...

Every winter for decades, the Northwest Territories, in the Canadian Far North, changes its face. Wh...

A documentary film that includes footage of past Olympics held in different countries with an partic...

Narrated by Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons, The Genius of George Boole assembles academics and ind...

Using never-before-seen footage, Japan's War In Colour tells a previously untold story. It recounts ...

This film is about Japanese women, escape, glamour and dreams. The Takarazuka Revue is an enormously...

Legendary Canadian documentarian Alanis Obomsawin digs into the tangled history of Treaty 9 — the in...
"Man of Arran" is a cinematic exploration of the beauty of Ireland's coastline, juxtaposed with the ...

Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continui...

Filmmaker Judith Helfand turns the camera on herself to document her battle with cancer caused by DE...
French documentary campaigning for the liberalization of abortion and contraception, directed by Cha...

A Day in TOKYO in 1968, Nostalgic bygone era. Planned by Japan National Tourism Organization. Produc...

La Salsa Vive is a vibrant cinematic exploration of Afro-Cuban music's history, tracing its roots fr...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...