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Women's History Month DVDs |
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Agatha Christie
Profiles the life and career of Agatha Christie; examines how the places and people Agatha Christie encountered in her life became immortalized in her novels
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Amelia Earhart
Explores the life of Amelia Earhart who, was the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean, was later lost at sea while attempting to fly around the world
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Annie Leibovitz
Profiles the celebrity photographer from her Connecticut childhood to her current work for Vanity Fair
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Bhutto
Archival footage and interviews with family members and leading experts brings to life the epic story of one of the most fascinating characters of our time--Benazir Bhutto, the first woman in history to lead a Muslim nation. A favored daughter of the family often called the "Kennedys of Pakistan, " Benazir was elected Prime Minister after her father was overthrown and executed by his own military. Her two terms in power saw extreme acts of courage and controversy as she tried to clean up Pakistan's corrupt political culture while quelling the fires of radical Islam that threaten to engulf the region.
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Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Looks at the life of 1930s-40s Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr, going beyond her film career to include her contributions as an inventor
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Camille Claudel 1915
Winter 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel.
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For Sama
Follows five years in the life of filmmaker Waad al-Kateab as she falls in love, gets married, and gives birth to her daughter throughout the conflict in Aleppo, Syria
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Harriet
Follows the life of American abolitionist Harriet Tubman as she escapes from slavery and leads other slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad
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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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Jane's Journey
Travel with Jane Goodall across several continents, from her childhood home in England, to the Gombe National Park in Tanzania where she began her groundbreaking research and where she still returns every year to enjoy the company of the chimpanzees that made her famous.
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Lise Meitner:
Profiles Lise Meitner, a German physicist who was instrumental in the creation of the atomic bomb
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Mae West: Dirty Blonde
Mae West achieved great acclaim in every entertainment medium that existed during her lifetime, spanning eight decades of the twentieth century. This is the first major documentary film to explore West's life and career, as she 'climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong' to become a writer, performer, and subversive agitator for social change.
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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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Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge
After winning a Nobel prize with her husband, Marie Curie deals with the grief of his death while caring for two daughters and continuing to pursue scientific theories and knowledge, leading to a second Nobel prize
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Misbehaviour
The sensational true story of the Women's Liberation Movement's disruption of the 1970 Miss World pageant, an event watched by more than 100 million viewers, and which made headlines around the world. Not only that, when order was restored, the first woman of color was crowned Miss World. In a matter of hours, a global audience had witnessed the patriarchy driven from the stage and the Western ideal of beauty turned on its head.
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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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RBG
Details the biography and career of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
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Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges becomes the first African American girl to integrate William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960
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Runaways
An all-girl teenage rock band, the Runaways, finds fame during the 1970s
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Sonja: The White Swan
Dramatizes the life of Norwegian figure skater Sonja Henie who travels to Hollywood in the 1930s to become a movie star
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Temple Grandin
The story of Temple Grandin, an autistic young woman who became a great success story in the field of livestock science
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Woman walks ahead
Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to North Dakota to paint a portrait of Chief Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples' struggle over the rights to their land.
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