Backroom Troubles (1997)
• January 1st, 1997 • 0h 51min
Documentary
Overview
Women talk about the circumstances that drove them to seek illegal abortions and the often traumatic result. Interwoven with historical photographs and newsreel footage, the stories expose how the reality of women's lives were counterposed to what was socially and morally expected of them.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
LFG
Released on: 2021-06-17
Documentary
Three months before the 2019 World Cup, the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team filed a gender discrim...
Served Like a Girl
Released on: 2017-11-08
Documentary
Five women veterans who have endured unimaginable trauma in service create a shared sisterhood to he...
Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web
Released on: 2017-03-13
Documentary
The larger-than-life story of Kim Dotcom, the 'most wanted man online', is extraordinary enough, but...
Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day
Released on: 2021-03-08
History, Documentary
Celebrate International Women’s Day with this brand new inspiring film from LETTERS LIVE. In “LETTER...
In the Theatre of the Gogs
Released on: 2021-06-03
Adventure, Documentary
A contemplation of art and adventure in the southern wilds of New Zealand by both a landscape photog...
Woman, Life, Freedom: An Iranian Revolution
Released on: 2023-09-19
Documentary, History
On September 16, 2022, in Teheran, the murder by police of the young Mahsa Amini, arrested for "wear...
She the People: Votes for Women
Released on: 2020-08-17
Documentary
Today, it seems incredible that just a century ago, American women had no voice in democracy. Just a...
A Quiet Inquisition
Released on: 2014-06-01
Documentary
At a public hospital in Nicaragua, Ob/Gyn Dr. Carla Cerrato must choose between following a law that...
GTFO: Get The F% Out
Released on: 2015-03-14
Documentary
Sparked by a public display of sexual harassment in 2012, GTFO pries open the video game world to ex...
Twenty
Released on: 2023-04-20
Documentary
Set in a speakeasy in Atlanta, “Twenty” is a feature documentary about fifteen young people making i...
Rise of the Wahine
Released on: 2014-11-09
Documentary
In the years following the Civil Rights movement and the passage of Title IX in 1972, Dr. Donnis Tho...
Saudi Women's Driving School
Released on: 2019-10-24
Documentary
An unprecedented access to a number of Saudi women in the capital city of Riyadh as they embrace the...
The Conductor
Released on: 2021-06-10
Documentary, Music
Leonard Bernstein’s protégée Marin Alsop reveals how she smashed the glass ceiling to become an inte...
The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari
Released on: 2022-11-03
Documentary, Drama
A close examination of the Whakaari / White Island volcanic eruption of 2019 in which 22 lives were ...
Flare - A Ski Trip
Released on: 1977-10-11
Documentary
A short documentary about freestyle skiing made for the New Zealand Tourist and Publicity Department...
Pirates of the Airwaves
Released on: 2014-07-27
Documentary, Drama, TV Movie
In 1966 a group of determined young men defied the New Zealand government and launched a pirate radi...
Ours to Tell
Released on: 2020-01-21
Documentary
Four people - Brittany, Hannah, Nick, and Ylonda - tell their stories about how access to abortion i...
Status Quo? The Unfinished Business of Feminism in Canada
Released on: 2012-01-01
Documentary
Juxtaposing scenes from the 1967 Royal Commission on the Status of Women with the 2nd Pan-Canadian Y...
Seeing Allred
Released on: 2018-01-21
Documentary
Gloria Allred overcame trauma and personal setbacks to become one of the nation’s most famous women’...