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The Women Make Movies Collection

The Women Make Movies Collection is a classic selection of films from Women Make Movies — comprised of major-award winning films, including both new releases and films never available for streaming before.

For over 45 years, Women Make Movies has been championing women filmmakers and their stories, supporting women producers and directors from the beginning and planting the seeds for a diverse and inclusive filmmaking landscape. As the world’s leading distributor of independent films by and about women, Women Make Movies amplifies historically ignored voices and challenges the mainstream media.

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The Women Make Movies Collection includes the following titles:

62 Days - image62 Days

62 DAYS is an urgent examination of a growing trend of laws that seek to control a pregnant woman's body.

Women Make Movies | 2017 | 29 minutes
93Queen - image93Queen

93QUEEN chronicles the creation of the first all-female Hasidic ambulance corps in New York City.

Women Make Movies | 2018 | 90 minutes | College, Adults
A Better Man - imageA Better Man

From Executive Producer Sarah Polley, A BETTER MAN follows a series of intimate conversations between a woman and her former boyfriend when she confronts him about their history of domestic abuse.

Women Make Movies | 2017 | 79 minutes
A Boy Named Sue  - imageA Boy Named Sue 

Julie Wyman's compelling documentary chronicles Theo's transformation from a woman to a man over the course of six years.

Women Make Movies | 2000 | 56 minutes
A Crushing Love - imageA Crushing Love

A CRUSHING LOVE, Sylvia Morales’ sequel to her groundbreaking history of Chicana women, CHICANA (1979), honors the achievements of five activist Latinas—labor organizer/farm worker leader Dolores Huerta, author/educator Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez, writer/playwright/educator Cherrie Moraga, civil rights advocate Alicia Escalante, and historian/writer Martha Cotera - and considers how these single mothers managed to be parents and effect broad-based social change at the same time.

Women Make Movies | 2009 | 58 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
A Girl Like Her - imageA Girl Like Her

From 1945-73, 1.5 million unmarried young American women, facing enormous social pressures, surrendered babies to adoption. Lacking sex education and easy access to birth control, they were forced into hiding while pregnant and then into “abandoning” their infants. In her latest film, Ann Fessler, Professor of Photography at Rhode Island School of Design, reprises the subject of her award-winning The Girls Who Went Away (National Book Critics Circle; Ballard Book Prize), which Ms. readers named an all-time best feminist book.

Women Make Movies | 2012 | 48 minutes
A Jury of Her Peers - imageA Jury of Her Peers

This riveting feminist classic probes the notion of women’s victimization and justifiable homicide and opens the possibility for the creation of an alternate, feminist justice and judgment.

Women Make Movies | 1980 | 30 minutes
A Normal Girl - imageA Normal Girl

A NORMAL GIRL brings the widely unknown struggles of intersex people to light through the story of intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis.

Women Make Movies | 2020 | 14 minutes
Abortion Helpline - imageAbortion Helpline

At the Philadelphia abortion helpline, counselors field nonstop calls from women and teens who are seeking to end a pregnancy but can’t afford to, illustrating how economic stigma and cruel laws determine who has access to abortion in America.

Women Make Movies | 2020 | 13 minutes
Absences - imageAbsences

ABSENCES, by award winning filmmaker Tatiana Huezo (The Tiniest Place), exposes the ever-intensifying phenomenon of enforced disappearance in Mexico and the ways it affects women.

Women Make Movies | 2015 | 26 minutes

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