The 1920s saw a revolution in technology, the advent of the recording industry, that created the first class of African-American women to sing their way to fame and fortune. Blues divas such as Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Alberta Hunter created and promoted a working-class vision of blues life that provided an alternative to the Victorian gentility of middle-class manners. In their lives and music, blues women presented themselves as strong, independent women who lived hard lives and were unapologetic about their unconventional choices in clothes, recreational activities, and bed partners. Blues singers disseminated a Black feminism that celebrated emotional resilience and sexual pleasure, no matter the source.

A nuanced portrait of a new generation, Dear Thirteen is a cinematic time capsule of coming of age i...

A docu-drama shot in 1970, but not completed until 1973, the film sought to encapsulate in an experi...

The older boys are graduating school and recount their memories together. The next day everyone defe...

Finally released from prison, Elwood Blues is once again enlisted by Sister Mary Stigmata in her lat...

Look around. Everything you see and touch can taste like vanilla.

A group of young women from Ouagadougou study at a girl school to become auto mechanics. The classma...

Rosemarie Blank made this film, which focuses on women aged around fifty, in collaboration with the ...

A collage of erotic images and a call to arms, with a feverish hip-hop energy that celebrates the li...

A documentary of burgeoning popstar Frimann's last gig in Liverpool before moving back home to Norwa...

Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the ...

A tribute to drag superstar, The Vivienne. Friends and family share touching stories of the RuPaul's...

Fragmentary perspectives on Human Rights and transgender (trans*) People in Turkey. What remains at...

“It ain’t easy…being green” is the favorite expression of Stormé DeLarverie, a woman whose life flou...

Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York a...

Mısra and Defne are close friends and duet partners who met each other through synchronized swimming...

A young trans woman travels back to places she visited as a child with her mother, reflecting on mem...

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur...

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940.

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1946.