Mar 01, 2018 8 Films About Women You Can Watch For Free Through The Library

International Women’s Day is March 8th! Here are some films in our collection you can watch for free to celebrate!

Also be sure to join us for our free film screening of Women in Leadership on March 8th!

100 Percent Woman: The Story of Michelle Dumaresq

(2004)  60 min.

A post-operative transsexual, Michelle Dumaresq has provoked outrage by entering the sport of women’s mountain bike racing. This program studies complex issues of gender identity surrounding the controversy and manifested in Dumaresq’s personal and professional relationships.

Beauty of Their Dreams

(2017)  57 min.

Girls education = increased economic growth, improved wellbeing of women, and extended life span. This documentary demonstrates how people of faith can positively impact the problem of educational gender disparity.

Femme: Women Healing the World

(2013)  91 min.

Femme is a celebration of Women around the world. It is an innovative effort to illuminate the thoughts, voices and insights of women the world over. It is an opportunity for women to be heard and to hear one another in an unfiltered regard on issues that touch the core of the human condition both elegantly and eloquently.

Her Story: The Female Revolution

(2016)  48 min.

Over the past few decades, life for many women across the globe has changed beyond all recognition. This series explores how, from the highest echelons of society, to the lowest rungs of the global ladder, a quiet revolution has been taking place. And while there is still oppression and repression from West to East, females the world over are grasping opportunities denied to those who went before them.

Independent Woman (America in Primetime)

(2011)  55 min.

Witness the transformation of women on TV, from model housewives to complex, and sometimes controversial characters.

Pink Smoke Over the Vatican

(2011)  62 min.

This is a film about the controversial movement of women seeking to be ordained as priests in the Roman Catholic Church. On June 3, 2008, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a sweeping order of excommunication for “the crime of attempting sacred ordination of a women.” This Film chronicles the event that led up to this sever punishment and tells the stories of the determined woman and men who are working to end the underlying misogyny and outdated feudal governance that is slowly destroying the Roman Catholic Church.

Queen of the Desert

(2017)  128 min.

A true story of a trailblazing woman who found freedom in the faraway world of the Middle East. Gertrude Bell chafes against the stifling rigidity of life in turn-of-the-century England, leaving it behind for a chance to travel to Tehran. So begins her lifelong adventure across the Arab world, a journey marked by danger, a passionate affair with a British officer, and an encounter with the legendary T.E. Lawrence.

The Women’s Balcony

(2017)  96 min.

An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gender rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem, in the rousing, good-hearted tale about women speaking truth to patriarchal power.