Prairie Women (1987)
• January 1st, 1987 • 0h 45min
Documentary, History
Overview
This film illustrates the struggles of Canadian prairies women to achieve a more just and humane society within the farm movement and at large. During the early 1900s, women on the prairies looked for ways to overcome their isolation. Out of the resulting farm women's organizations grew a group of women possessing remarkable intellectual abilities, social and cultural awareness, and advanced worldviews.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Nefertiti's Daughters
Released on: 2015-04-09
Documentary
Nefertiti's Daughters is a story of women, art and revolution. Told by prominent Egyptian artists, t...
Repense o Elogio
Released on: 2017-10-18
Documentary
A documentary that proposes a conversation about the way children are praised. While girls are often...
We Are Always Walking
Released on: 2017-10-20
Documentary
Alberta, Julia, and Catalina are three Chatino migrant women who have had to leave their communities...
Yellow Fever
Released on: 2012-09-01
Animation, Documentary
What does beauty look like? In this award-winning short, Kenyan filmmaker Ng’endo Mukii combines ani...
The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream
Released on: 2004-01-12
Documentary
Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has p...
DFW Punk
Released on: 2008-08-07
Documentary, Music
DFW Punk, covering the Dallas/Ft. Worth punk/new wave scene. If you thought Texas in the late ’70s w...
Doctors, Liars, and Women: AIDS Activists Say No to Cosmo
Released on: 1988-01-01
Documentary
Outraged by the controversial January, 1988 article in Cosmopolitan magazine, the women in the AIDS ...
Québec...?
Released on: 1967-01-01
Documentary
This short documentary film is a fascinating portrait of urban and rural Quebec in the late 1960s, a...
Bandit Queen
Released on: 1994-01-26
Action, Crime, Drama, History
Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and ...
Return Home
Released on: 1992-05-01
Documentary
After the near death of her grandfather, Chinese Canadian filmmaker Michelle Wong embarks on a perso...
Beyond Belief
Released on: 2007-04-26
Documentary
When terrorists shattered their lives, two women set off on an extraordinary journey to rebuild them...
VHS Revolution
Released on: 2017-08-28
Documentary, History
Using testimonies by pioneers and witnesses of the times, delve into the feverish visual culture the...
The Earth Is Blue as an Orange
Released on: 2020-11-26
Documentary
Single mother Anna and her four children live in the front-line war zone of Donbas, Ukraine. While t...
The Corporation
Released on: 2003-09-10
Documentary
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational mod...
Koyaanisqatsi
Released on: 1983-04-27
Documentary, Music
Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having...
Still
Released on: 2014-06-19
Documentary
The documentary tells the story of Uschi, a farmer living free and recluded in the bavarian alps. S...
Himalaya: The Land of Women
Released on: 2012-01-11
Documentary
At an altitude of nearly 4,000 meters, Sking is one of the most isolated villages in the Himalayan r...
Overdosed
Released on: 2021-07-05
Documentary
Interviews with former drug dealers, over-prescribing doctors and DEA agents uncover a shocking trut...
The American Question
Released on: 2024-10-29
Documentary
An 8-year journey into divided America, The American Question examines the insidious roots of polari...