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Women's History Month DVDs |
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Barbie
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.
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Colette
The story of French author Colette, who fought to make her talents known after she found success while being pressured to write novels under her husband's name.
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The Color Purple
Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
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The Crown
The story of Queen Elizabeth II's reign of the United Kingdom, and how it helped to shaped the latter part of the twentieth century.
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Frida
Portrayal of the life, career, and death of famous Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.
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The Great
A satirical interpretation of the biography of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
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Hidden Figures
Follows three African American women working as human computers for NASA during the space race of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Jackie
Follows Jacqueline Kennedy while she was the First Lady of the United States, and following the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy.
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The Joy Luck Club
The stories of four native-born Chinese women and their American-born daughters, showing the influence each has on the others' lives.
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A League of Their Own
A washed-up ballplayer becomes coach to one of the All-American Girls Baseball league teams in 1943, and finds himself drawn back into the enthusiasm of the sport.
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Little Women
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in mid-nineteenth-century New England.
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Marie Antoinette
Tells the story of the ill-fated fifteen-year-old princess from Austria who married France's young King Louis XVI.
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Molly's Game
Follows the story of Molly Bloom, who ran a high-stakes poker game for a decade before being arrested by the FBI.
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9 to 5
Three women in a giant company, oppressed by an uncaring boss, devise an outrageous scheme to get revenge.
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Norma Rae
Grinding out her life in a small Southern town as a worker in a non-union textile shop, Norma Rae joins forces with a New York labor organizer to unionize the mill.
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On the Basis of Sex
The story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a woman who overcame gender inequalities in order to become a Supreme Court Justice.
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Queen of Katwe
After being introduced to the game of chess, a young Ugandan girl sees her life change.
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She Said
Based on a true story, follows New York Times journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey as they expose stories of abuse and sexual misconduct perpetrated by Hollywood producer, Harvey Weinstein.
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Spencer
A fictionalized account of Princess Diana's decision to end her marriage to Prince Charles, and separate from the royal family.
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Respect
Offers a look into the life of Aretha Franklin: from her childhood traumatized by the loss of her mother through her difficult rise to international fame in the sixties, when she was also struggling with an abusive marriage and alcohol problems.
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Suffragette
In the 19th century, a working-class laundress in London becomes involved with a group of women organizing to obtain the vote for women.
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Temple Grandin
The story of Temple Grandin, a young woman with autism who became a great success story in the field of livestock science.
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Thelma & Louise
A waitress and a housewife try to get away from their boyfriend and husband for a weekend but instead end up on a cross country crime spree.
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The Woman King
Tells the story of the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey.
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Wonder Woman
When an Allied pilot crashes on the secluded island of Themyscira and tells of war in the outside world, Amazon warrior princess Diana leaves her home to fight evil and becomes Wonder Woman in the process.
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