100 years ago Mata Hari faced the firing squad as a convicted Dutch spy. It was at this moment that the legend of Mata Hari, the seductive spy, was born. Newly-discovered documents cast doubt on her guilt and reveal startling truths about her life. Mata Hari was a self-made woman whose boldness and sexuality threatened the male establishment. Most of what we've known about her until now has largely been myth. Mata Hari's challenges as an abused wife, single mother and a creative independent woman are familiar to women around the world. At the turn of the century, her struggles to attain sexual freedom, artistic expression, and liberation from the constraints of conventional society are the same ones women face today. She graced the cover of Vogue, performed all over Europe and left a coterie of smitten admirers in her wake.
Delphine Seyrig reads passages from a Valerie Solanas’s SCUM manifesto.
Performed by Constance Smith, Pauline Cushman-Fryer tells us how she became a Union Spy, was almost ...
Nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters", these African-Americans wanted to become ordinary citizens like...
Created in the Victorian era to widen the mouth of the River Tees for shipping, South Gare is a man-...
Despite the 1960s free-love and alternative culture, many women found that their lives and expectati...
Huiju learned of her biopsy test results, but lied to her mum about them. Feeling guilty about the l...
A staged film where over 100 cyclists cycle towards the camera.
The last day of Patrizia Cavalli’s home. Before it’s all gone.
Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how ...
Women’s voices rise to deliver testimonies of victims of sexual violence. By reconstructing a story ...
The filmmakers and lead actors of The Remains of the Day (1993) discuss how they came to make the fi...
A Nepali mountaineer risks everything on a record-breaking Mount Everest climb to secure a brighter ...
An unconventional portrait of painter Frida Kahlo and photographer Tina Modotti. Simple in style but...
The compelling story of an extraordinary woman's journey from her birth in a paper thin shack in the...
Oxana is a woman, a fighter, an artist. As a teenager, her passion for iconography almost inspires h...
Personal stories taken from a survey on how women's lives are affected by a culture obsessed with bo...
After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...
Some time after her death, film director Jill Craigie (1911- 99), re-opens an old suitcase, promptin...
Comedian and history buff Al Murray is joined by former director of MI5 Dame Stella Rimington, polit...
An intimate study of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century tracki...