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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 collection includes the following titles:

Four Women - imageFour Women

An experimental choreographed poem,made within the LA Rebellion movement of film students at UCLA.

Women Make Movies | 1975 | 10 minutes | College, Adults
The Edge of Each Other's Battles - imageThe Edge of Each Other's Battles

This powerful documentary is a moving tribute to legendary black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde, One of the most celebrated icons of feminism's second wave.

Women Make Movies | 2002 | 59 minutes | College, Adults
Apart - imageApart

Against the backdrop of a Midwestern state battling industrial decline, an opioid epidemic, and rising incarceration rates, APART offers an intimate portrait of three women who return home from prison and rebuild their lives after being separated from their children for years.

Women Make Movies | 2020 | 86 minutes | College, Adults
The Archivettes - imageThe Archivettes

For more than 40 years, the Lesbian Herstory Archives has combated lesbian invisibility by literally rescuing history from the trash.

Women Make Movies | 2018 | 61 minutes | College, Adults
Belly of the Beast - imageBelly of the Beast

Filmed over seven years with extraordinary access and intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated people, this Emmy-winning documentary exposes a pattern of illegal sterilizations, modern-day eugenics and reproductive injustice in California prisons.

Women Make Movies | 2020 | 81 minutes | College, Adults
The Room of Bones - imageThe Room of Bones

Follows the passage of four mothers in the Institute for Legal Medicine as they search for their children’s remains in the midst of three decades of social violence in El Salvador.

Women Make Movies | 2015 | 61 minutes | College, Adults
Breach of Trust - imageBreach of Trust

Told from the point of view of women advocating for accountability and change, this compelling documentary by USC Graduate Mishal Mahmud examines the sexual assault scandal at the University of Southern California, detailing crimes committed by former gynecologist Dr. George Tyndall and exposing the active cover-up on the part of the administration.

Women Make Movies | 2019 | 24 minutes | College, Adults
Call Me Human - imageCall Me Human

Innu writer Joséphine Bacon travels across Canada, sharing reflections and stories backdropped by the film’s stunning cinematography.

Women Make Movies | 2020 | 77 minutes | College, Adults
Chicana - imageChicana

Over a collage of artworks, photographs, and documentary footage, Carmen Zapata and an array of Chicana activists narrate the history of struggles faced by Mexican and Mexican-American women from the pre-Columbian era to the present day.

Women Make Movies | 1979 | 23 minutes | College, Adults
The Devil Never Sleeps - imageThe Devil Never Sleeps

Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Lourdes Portillo mines the complicated intersections of analysis and autobiography, evidence and hypothesis, even melodrama and police procedure in this ground-breaking work

Women Make Movies | 1996 | 82 minutes | College, Adults

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