As millions of women and girls take shots and pills to stop their periods, the meaning of menstruation changes. Current marketing of hormonal birth control (Depo-Provera, Seasonale, Seasonique, Lybrel, Anya) attracts customers by promising freedom from monthly periods. For many consumers, menstrual suppression eliminates painful monthly flow, giving them more control in their lives. For others, menstrual suppression represents a frightening shift in thinking about the human body and another dangerous experiment on woman’s health. Period: The End of Menstruation? interrogates the cultural and medical side effects of suppression before 'the curse' disappears.
La otra educación (The Other Education) is about the class action suit Rosa Lydia Velez vs the Depar...
Documents Ku Klux Klan activities in California, Georgia, Chicago, and Ohio.
This documentary analyzes the origins of the Puerto Rican economic development plan of the 1960’s, b...
Women workers stand up to the toxic flower industry in Colombia.
An educational documentary spanning two continents, opening up a much-needed debate about traditiona...
Filmmaker Molly Gandour, in her mid-20s, returns to her childhood home in Indiana to speak with her ...
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefen...
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefen...
Friends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs in this unconven...
This feature documentary is an exploration of the concept of dirt and impurity. From the slums of Ko...
The representation of women in contemporary Italian media
Hidden in the heart of Russia, there is a Soviet-era city where thousands of people live and work be...
REAL BOY is the coming-of-age story of Bennett Wallace, a transgender teenager on a journey to find ...
When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed ...
Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta...
The film describes the microcosmos of the small village Wacken and shows the clash of the cultures, ...
Bartolomé, a teacher in a multigrade school on the mountains of Chiapas in Mexico, knows well that p...
This underwater ballet is an ecological story depicting our paradoxical relationship with plastic. B...