Women S Rights Movies

On the front line of the Syrian war, a 30-year-old commander leads her female battalion to retake an ISIS-controlled city and emerges severely...

Leonard Bernstein’s protégée Marin Alsop reveals how she smashed the glass ceiling to become an internationally renowned...

Kismateen, a 24-year-old brass band player in Old Delhi, tries to find his smile back with dental implants after being forcefully separated from the...

In an America where more and more women and trans people are losing legal bodily autonomy, the history of Bill Baird’s long fight for...

In a mountainous but extremely green landscape goats jump over the rocks and laughing children run after them. In this paradise on earth, nomadic...

The story of two youngster girls who became the victims of female genital mutilation.

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

Tahirih Qurrat al-Ayn was first Iranian women right activist, Bab-i fighter ,theologian,poet. Tahirih was a woman of letters who lived in the...

To achieve women's rights and gender equality, these three pioneers were willing to risk their livelihood and their future, as well as their...

Based upon the life of activist and trade unionist (and later MP) Sonja Davies. The film covers her life up to 1956, when, at age 33, she was...

On June 20, 2009, Neda Agha-Soltan was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran during the turmoil that followed the Iranian presidential contest....

In Milan, a young Chinese woman faces an unexpected pregnancy alone. Unable to confide in either her partner or her family, she wanders through the...

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

Facing the threat of a nuclear war, a young Ukrainian woman is forced to decide between safety and bodily autonomy.

After a woman’s silent rage erupts into a fight post-coitus, a women’s group analyzes her refusal to stay passive. Another scene shows a...

María and Isabel are two women in their fifties who, like many others, recycle in Quito, where there is no recycling system. María...

Half a million wives work with their husbands in family-run businesses, but most have no legal title to any part of the operation. This documentary...

In this documentary by Coline Serreau, known for her feature film Why Not?, a selection of Frenchwomen in characteristically no-win situations...

Although women now account for nearly half of all regular video game players, they make up only 22% of the development sector and 10% of the...