The Janes (2022)
• May 3rd, 2022 • 1h 41min
Documentary
Overview
Defying the state legislature that outlawed abortion, the Catholic Church that condemned it, and the Chicago Mob that was profiting from it, the members of “Jane” risked their personal and professional lives to support women with unwanted pregnancies. In the pre-Roe v. Wade era — a time when abortion was a crime in most states and even circulating information about abortion was a felony in Illinois — the Janes provided low-cost and free abortions to an estimated 11,000 women.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Jan Terri: No Rules
Released on: 2023-09-16
Documentary, Music
30 years in the making, the film Jan Terri: No Rules tells the story of an irrepressible, and often ...
The Last Waltz
Released on: 1978-04-26
Documentary, Music
Martin Scorsese's documentary intertwines footage from The Band's incredible farewell tour with prob...
Jesus Christ Saviour
Released on: 2008-02-11
Documentary
Klaus Kinski has perhaps the most ferocious reputation of all screen actors: his volatility was docu...
Maria Bethânia: Música é Perfume
Released on: 2005-08-24
Music, Documentary
Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and f...
Inside Deep Throat
Released on: 2005-02-11
Documentary
In 1972, a seemingly typical shoestring budget pornographic film was made in a Florida hotel: "Deep ...
Old Thieves: The Legend of Artegio
Released on: 2007-03-15
Documentary
Is the story of a generation of thieves who achieved their greatest victories in the sixties; their ...
The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox
Released on: 2022-05-12
Documentary, History
The amazing story of the animograph, a machine created in France in the sixties by the cartoonist an...
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Released on: 2002-05-10
Documentary
This award-winning, thrilling story is about a group of discarded kids who revolutionized skateboard...
The Lost Sons
Released on: 2021-03-16
Documentary
1960s Chicago, a baby is kidnapped from a hospital. Fifteen months later, a toddler is abandoned. Co...
The Society of the Spectacle
Released on: 1974-05-01
Documentary
Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.
Your War (I'm One of You): 20 Years of Joan of Arc
Released on: 2017-02-13
Documentary
Your War (I'm One Of You) chronicles the life and career of Chicago's Tim Kinsella, frontman of ever...
Hollywood Rated 'R'
Released on: 1997-06-19
Documentary, Horror, Science Fiction
A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman'...
Adriana's Pact
Released on: 2017-10-05
Documentary, History
Lissette's favorite aunt Adriana, who lives in Australia, is arrested in 2007 while visiting her fam...
Life After People
Released on: 2008-01-21
Documentary
In this special documentary that inspired a two-season television series, scientists and other exper...
Wild Session
Released on: 2019-12-13
Documentary
A walk through the golden age of Spanish exploitation cinema, from the sixties to the eighties; a lo...
American Swing
Released on: 2009-10-17
Documentary
Chronicles the rise and fall of 1970s New York City nightclub Plato's Retreat.
A, B, C... Z
Released on: 1971-02-16
Family, Documentary
Children get ready to start the first grade. They start learning the first letters.
Chicago 10
Released on: 2008-02-29
Documentary, Animation, History, War
Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who wer...
Masters of Mayhem
Released on:
Horror, Documentary
For decades Italian genre cinema dominated the world and before changing beyond recognition it went ...
Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
Released on: 2008-10-22
Documentary, History
The story, told by the survivors, of a group of young men, members of a Uruguayan rugby team, who ma...