In the Arab world, women are fighting a two-front war against repressive internal constraints and intrusive Western interference. In this program, a feminist delegation composed of author Nawal Saadawi and other renowned activists from the Middle East and North Africa gathers at the UN, on college campuses, and in church basements to speak out about deterioration of women's rights in the Arab states in an effort to heighten awareness of the Arab feminist struggle for equality--and the effects of U.S. foreign policy on their efforts.

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct h...

Oxana is a woman, a fighter, an artist. As a teenager, her passion for iconography almost inspires h...

The Israeli filmmaker Shai Corneli Polak records the building of the 'security wall' through Palesti...

A documentary that resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founde...

The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey throu...

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

Amos Gitai returns to the occupied territories for the first time since his 1982 documentary FIELD D...

Béatrice Dalle, Lio, Brigitte Fontaine, Corinne Masiero, Aïssa Maïga, Virginie Despentes, Maria Schn...

In 1971, graduate student Gloria Orenstein received a call from Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington...

TOMBOY explores the obstacles that young girls encounter on the recreational stage, the stereotypes,...

Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how ...

The story of the road to women's suffrage in Sweden featuring interviews with relatives of the main ...

An intimate study of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century tracki...

In 1971, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE ceased to be part of Britain’s empire in the Middle East and bec...

As a result of the Holocaust and later, AIDS, the male homosexual community has sustained bitter los...

This documentary profiles economist and writer Marilyn Waring. In extensive interviews, Waring detai...

From her precocious status as a sex symbol to her consecration as a filmmaker, Jodie Foster's story ...

Norman Mailer and a panel of feminists — Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Dia...

Two actresses take us through a series of 'raps' and sketches about what it means to be beautiful an...

Widerstandsmomente (Moments of Resistance) carries voices, writings, and objects from the anti-Nazi ...