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Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A provocative, rousing and often humorous account of the birth of the modern women's liberation movement in the late 1960s through to its contemporary manifestations in the new millenium, direct from the women who lived it.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD. (83 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An entertaining and revelatory 'secret history' of feminist art, !Women Art Revolution deftly illuminates the under-explored movement through conversations, observations, archival footage, and works of visionary artists, historians, curators, and critics. Starting from its roots in the 1960s antiwar and civil rights protests, the film details developments in women's art through the 1970s and explores how the pioneering artists created the most significant...
Series
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (74 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Czech
Description
Two teenage girls decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them.
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Anthony Hopkins portrays a father recently separated from his wife. Bitter, frightened and enraged, he releases his anger on other women and a friend whose wife has just left him.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (875 min.) : sound, black and white and black and white with color tinting ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"This four-disc set showcases more than fourteen hours of rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play. These women organize labor strikes, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts, explode out of chimneys, electrocute the police force, and assume a range of identities that gleefully dismantle traditional gender norms and sexual constraints. The films span a variety of genres including slapstick comedy,...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (30 unnumbered pages : illustrations, music ; 16 cm) and 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
A buoyant hymn to sisterly solidarity rooted in the hard-won victories of a generation of women, this is one of Agns̈ Varda₂s warmest and most politically trenchant films, a feminist musical for the ages.
Publisher
Alive Mind Cinema
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
3 DVD (166 min.) : sound, color. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Part 1: Goddess Remembered. This documentary is a salute to 35 000 years of "pre-history, " to the values of ancestors only recently remembered, and to the goddess-worshiping religions of the ancient past. Goddess Remembered features Merlin Stone, Carol Christ, Luisah Teish, Starhawk, Charlene Spretnak, and Jean Bolen, who link the loss of goddess-centered societies with today's environmental crisis. They propose a return to the belief in an interconnected...
Series
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
In a railway coach Snàporaz wakes from a nap and seduces a beautiful stranger. Then he follows her through a forest to a weird hotel where a feminist convention is being held. He is so unnerved by the vociferous hostility of the militants that he hides in the mansion of a female killer who has wooed and won a thousand hearts. Snàporaz will be forced to run the gauntlet before waking up and realizing that his adventure was only a crazy nightmare....
10) Suffragette
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Inspired by true events, a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of the women who risked everything in their fight for equality in early 20th century Britain. The story centers on Maud, a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.'s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst, Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all...
11) Barbie
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken.
12) Town bloody hall
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
On April 30, 1971, a standing-room-only crowd of New York's intellectual elite packed the city's Town Hall theater to see Norman Mailer, fresh from the controversy over his essay 'The Prisoner of Sex' and the backlash it received from leaders of the women's movement, tangle with a panel of four prominent female thinkers and activists: Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Diana Trilling.
13) Mona Lisa smile
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1953, Katherine Watson is a free-spirited graduate of UCLA who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the women's movement from Hilary Clinton's 2016 presidential bid through the first woman of color to appear on a major party ticket in 2020. Highlights include the 2017 Women's March, the fall of Harvey Weinstein, the birth of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, and the convergence of feminism and racial justice in Black Lives Matter.
Publisher
Cult Epics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Nederlands
Description
"Three women, strangers with no premeditated thoughts, kill a male shopkeeper in the middle of the day. A female psychiatrist is assigned to the case to find out why. This provocative, radical, acclaimed feminist film was a hit both in Holland and abroad when it was released in theaters and is a feminist classic today"--Container.
Publisher
Groundswell, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 59 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The rebellious years 1965-1969 for women come to life in an unorthodox yearbook of college portraits. The women of the class of '69 changed the world, fought for their freedom, found it wasn't free. Now, 45 years later, they reflect on those photos and on ordinary lives made extraordinary by the tumultuous times in which they came of age.--Container.
18) Parade's end
Publisher
Home Box Office, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013], 2012.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
2 DVD (approximately 300 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts principles first by marrying Sylvia, a pretty, manipulative...
19) Girls with guts
Publisher
Darkside Releasing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (68 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An exploration of modern feminism through the boundary-pushing films of badass female filmmakers working in the Pacific Northwest, exploring the topics of body horror, pregnancy, and scream queens, and includes one-on-one interviews and film clips by the filmmakers, who are drawn together in the spirit, passion, and the blood and guts of sisterhood.
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (419 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Multiple
Description
From the east: "A journey from the end of summer to deepest winter, across Eastern Europe to Moscow."--Container.
South: "An evocation of how the brutal murder of James Byrd, Jr. in Jasper, Texas, fits into a landscape as mental as it is physical."--Container.
From the other side: "The flow of illegal immigration to San Diego has largely been blocked, but for the desperate, there are still the dangerous deserts of Arizona."--Container.
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