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 one-off TV special follows the exploits of camp comic Graham Norton on a visit to Tokyo. Stayin...

This documentary started as part of a photography project about the indigenous Ainu population in no...

Legendary Canadian documentarian Alanis Obomsawin digs into the tangled history of Treaty 9 — the in...
A modern geisha travels through Japan trying to find a job as entertainer, and ends up by finding lo...

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

Under Dorchester Square in Montreal lies the cemetery where 55,000 people were buried in the 19th ce...

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

The Cove tells the amazing true story of how an elite team of individuals, films makers and free div...

Revealing the flaws of Japanese society, the 1995 sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subway prompted Mura...

Kazuo Hara follows Ayumi Yasutomi, a transgender candidate, who is also a Tokyo University professor...

Japan blossomed into its Renaissance at approximately the same time as Europe. Unlike the West, it f...

Thailand Dreams is a documentary about relationships between Western men and Thai women. About love ...

A retired truck driver reflects on a life spent on the road while his children explore the emotional...

The director goes back to her roots in Pangnirtung, amongst her family and community. It leads her t...

Haida Gwaii, an archipelago off the west coast of Canada, is home to Skil Jaadee and her family. The...

The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m ...

For centuries the Japanese warred among themselves and their neighbors, creating a colorful, rich an...
A documentary film telling the story of true friendship and commitment to Japan’s recovery by the i...

This fascinating political look at a little-known chapter in women's history tells the story of "Jan...

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational mod...