Let Them Wear Towels (2013)
• July 16th, 2013 • 1h 0min
Documentary
Overview
During the 1977 World Series, Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke was denied access to the players' locker room. After a very public fight, the door was opened, but the debate about female journalists in the male sanctum of the clubhouse remained. Through interviews with pioneering female sports writers, Let Them Wear Towels captures the raw behavior, humorous retaliation, angry lawsuits and remarkable resolve that went into the struggle for equal access for women reporters.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Mankiller
Released on: 2017-06-19
Documentary
The story of an American hero and the Cherokee Nation's first woman Principal Chief who humbly defie...
In Paris Parks
Released on: 1954-06-04
Documentary
This short film displays the dynamic movement of people as they enter and exit parks in Paris.
Kreator - Hate & Hope
Released on: 2025-09-04
Documentary, Music
From a school band from Essen to an internationally celebrated thrash metal legend: To mark Kreator'...
Place of Work
Released on: 1976-06-05
Documentary
Margaret Tait documents her house, studio and garden in Buttquoy, Orkney as the seasons pass. She ha...
Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe
Released on: 1985-11-01
Documentary
Examines the impact a century of struggling for survival has on a native people. It weaves the Crow ...
The (Dead Mothers) Club
Released on: 2014-05-12
Documentary
Three women whose paths never cross, yet are bound by the shared experience of losing their mothers ...
NiiSoTeWak: Two Bodies, One Heart
Released on: 2017-05-25
Documentary
NiiSoTeWak means “walking the path together.” Tapwewin and Pawaken are 10-year-old brothers trying ...
Citizens of Cosmopolis
Released on: 2012-09-25
Documentary
An in-depth documentary about the making of David Cronenberg's feature film, Cosmopolis (2012), an a...
Maria's Story
Released on: 1991-01-18
Documentary
It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Ma...
From Mother to Daughter
Released on: 1968-01-01
Documentary, Drama
Documents a woman's actual pregnancy; the emotions, the affects on her husband and first-born child,...
Untold Odyssey: Reindeer Wrangling
Released on: 2011-12-23
Documentary, Adventure
A lyrical and haunting portrait of reindeer herding in the twilight expanses of the Lappish wilderne...
Love Hotel
Released on: 2014-04-26
Documentary
Pensioners, lawyers, married couples and teenagers are all customers at the Angel Love Hotel in Osak...
Art and Craft
Released on: 2014-09-19
Documentary
For several decades, gifted and incredibly prolific forger Mark Landis compulsively created impeccab...
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
Released on: 1938-04-21
Documentary
Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greec...
Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty
Released on: 1938-06-02
Documentary
Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave t...
Tribal Justice
Released on: 2017-02-05
Documentary
Two formidable Native American women, both chief judges in their tribe's courts, strive to reduce in...
Blindsight
Released on: 2006-09-11
Documentary
Six blind Tibetan teenagers climb the Lhakpa-Ri peak of Mount Everest, led by seven-summit blind mou...
She's Beautiful When She's Angry
Released on: 2014-12-05
Documentary
A documentary that resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founde...
This Time Next Year
Released on: 2014-11-22
Documentary
A poetic documentation of the Long Beach Island, NJ community as they battle local politics, cope wi...
Keep Talking
Released on: 2017-03-16
Documentary
Three Alaska Native women work to save their endangered language, Kodiak Alutiiq, and ensure the fut...