Womens Rights Movies

Filmmaker Anand Patwardhan looks to history and psychology as he delves into the possible reasons behind the demolition of the Babri Mosque.

Five women veterans who have endured unimaginable trauma in service create a shared sisterhood to help the rising number of stranded homeless women ve...

Documentary dialogue with young women in Algiers on their experience of independence shortly after their country's independence.

Valerie faces the challenge of leaving an abusive relationship with the help of her two friends.

Bookended by call-to-action quotes from Margaret Mead and Mahatma Gandhi, this inspiring documentary follows three extraordinary women -- in Bosnia-He...

After their mother's femicide, three siblings are separated and forced to live in different places. Years later they gather to raise their voices and...

The daughters of Title IX discover that pervasive gender-based stereotypes and discrimination persist within the high stakes professional world of su...

The inspiring story of a young Indian Muslim woman who trades her burka for dreams of playing on the Mumbai Senior Women's Cricket Team and how the ha...

A West Berlin doctor, married with a two-year-old child, leaves her husband to go to Munich to work in the birth clinic of a hospital. Her husband doe...

Five girls grow up in China during the first years of the twentieth century. When they become adults they have to learn that women are almost without...

The women of Ghana have a reputation for independence. They, rather than the men, sit enthroned at the market stalls and run a large proportion of the...

This movie was produced by the beauty brand Lancome and fashion magazine Marie Claire’s collaboration to celebrate International Women’s Day on March...

Nepal's Civil War ended in 2006, but not for Devi; rebel warrior, mother and sexual violence survivor. As those in power try to erase rape from the hi...

After 20 years of living in Berlin, the director Olga Delane goes back to her roots in a small Siberian village, where she is confronted with traditio...

In the Arab world, women are fighting a two-front war against repressive internal constraints and intrusive Western interference. In this program, a f...

Two Syrian refugee girls document each others' attempts at making their first films.

This documentary portrays the way in which attacks against a twisted concept of “gender ideology” in four countries are being used to gain political p...

Outlawed in Pakistan tells the story of Kainat Soomro as she takes her rape case to Pakistan's deeply flawed court system in hopes of getting justice....

When her husband died Soumicha, mother of three, had to earn a living. She became the only woman taxi driver in Sidi Bel-Abbès, Algeria. This film acc...

When a young social elite at the turn of the nineteenth century explores life as a modern woman, she risks losing the man she loves and a certain futu...