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The films and videorecordings listed below are owned by York University Libraries and available for academic use by the York University community. Requests for these materials can be made in writing, by telephone, or in person to the
Sound & Moving Image LibraryFall/Winter Hours: Summer Hours: Monday - Thursday 9 am - 9 pm Monday - Thursday 9 am - 7 pm Friday 9 am - 8 pm Friday 9 am - 5 pm Saturday & Sunday noon - 5 pm Closed WeekendsPlease note the following abbreviations:
MP : 16mm film
VC : VHS videotape
VC 3/4 : 3/4" videotape
ALBERTA HUNTER: MY CASTLE'S ROCKIN' 1988 60 min. VC #1850 Stuart Goldman Prod. Looks at the career of the blues singer and jazz vocalist who came out of retirement in 1977. ALICE WALKER 1992 22 min. VC #2926 SSR-RTSI Swiss Television Afro-American writer, Walker, discusses her life, the Civil Rights movement, and the "womanist" perspective, that of a Black woman whose spirit has been reawakened. ANGELOU ON BURNS 1996 48 min. VC #5138 Elly M. Taylor Maya Angelou makes a pilgrimage to Scotland in search of Robert Burns, a poet she developed an affinity for from the time she first learned to read. ANNA LEONOWENS: GETTING TO KNOW YOU 1999 42 min. VC #5707 History Television Anna Leonowens, governess to the children of the King of Siam, is romanticized in the movie The King and I. Her real life reveals a strong-minded, well-travelled woman who wrote best sellers to support her family. ARTEMISIA 1997 96 min. VC Feature Home use - no classroom rights Agnes Merlet Historical drama based on the true story of Artemisia Gentileschi (17th century Italy), the first woman to achieve success as a painter. AYN RAND, A SENSE OF LIFE 1999 144 min. VC #5525 Home use - no classroom rights Looks at the life and work of the controversial Russian-born author, Ayn Rand. Drawing from personal papers, public archives, rare film footage, and interviews with those who knew her, the material captures Rand's themes of reason, rational selfishness and political freedom. ARTIST ON FIRE: JOYCE WIELAND 1987 54 min. VC #1908 Kay Armitage Examines the work of the Canadian artist and filmmaker, who used a variety of materials - cloth, pastels, coloured pencils, oils, bronze and watercolours. AN ATTENTIVE LIFE: CONVERSATIONS WITH EDNA STAEBLER 1995 48 min. VC #4214 Wilfrid Laurier University From her lakeside home in Waterloo County, Edna Staebler talks with Nancy-Lou Patterson about her earliest book, her magazine writing, and her work on Mennonites and her cookbooks. With Judith Miller, she discusses her life as a woman writer, and her journal writing. BACK TO GOD'S COUNTRY/SOMETHING NEW 1919-1920 72 and 60 min. VC Feature Nell Shipman 1. Renee is a beautiful young wife trapped on an ice-bound ship. Captain Blake, a murderous fugitive, will stop at nothing to have his way with her. 2. In this western, the hero comes to the rescue of the kidnapped girl -- in a 1920 Maxwell sedan! BERENICE ABBOTT: A VIEW OF THE 20TH CENTURY 1992 57 min. VC #4085 Kay Weaver and Martha Wheelock Abbott's genius lies in the range of her work; from portraits of the Parisian avant-garde in the 1920s, to documentation of 1930s New York, to science photography of the 1950s, and studies of small town America. BETYE AND ALISON SAAR: CONJURE WOMEN OF THE ARTS 1991-1995 28 min. VC #4975 Linda Freeman/David Irving Mother and daughter artists demonstrate collaborative art, and the use of found objects, and reflect on their relationship and motivation. BY A WOMAN'S HAND 1994 59 min. VC #3481 National Film Board of Canada Explores the life and work of three Canadian women artists, Prudence Heward, Sarah Robertson and Anne Savage who exhibited with the Group of Seven. CALLING THE SHOTS 1988 118 min. VC #2155 Janis Cole and Holly Dale Candid interviews with directors, producers, screenwriters and actresses focus on the diversity of films being made by women as they achieve positions of authority in the industry. CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1989 159 min. VC FEATURE Bruno Nuytten A historically accurate depiction of one of the most important collaborations in the history of art, that of the sculptor Rodin, and the creative prodigy Camille Claudel. CARMEN MIRANDA: BANANAS IS MY BUSINESS 1994 90 min. VC FEATURE Helena Solberg Archival footage, film fragments, interviews, and dramatic re-enactments convey the true story of the "Brazilian Bombshell", Carmen Miranda. CISSY HOUSTON, SWEET INSPIRATION 1988 58 min. VC #4351 Hudson West Productions Profiles Cissy Houston, whose singing career has successfully combined gospel and pop music. THE DANCEMAKERS PROGRAM 4 1987 28 min. VC #1308 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/TV Ontario Profiles Canadian choreographer Ginette Laurin who draws on childhood memories to create Full House, personal and universal in its vision of life in the 1950s and 60s. Also includes excerpts of Crash Landing. DANCING FOR MR.B 1989 94 min. VC #1298 WNET Maria Tallchief, Mary Ellen Moylan, Melissa Hayden, Allegra Kent, Merrill Ashley, and Darci Kistler, who worked under Choreographer George Balanchine at the New York City Ballet, recount theirexperiences. DENISE LEVERTOV & CHARLES OLSON 1966 29 min. MP #396 KQED Film Unit & National Educational Television 5hows Levertov in her home where she discusses her reasons for becoming a poet, methods of work, and reads from her poems, Life at War, Losing Tract, The Ache of Marriage and Two Angels. DOROTHEA LANGE 1994 46 min. VC #3828 Meg Partridge Brings to life five decades of American history with photographs and insights by Dorothea Lange, revealing her passion for her work and her commitment to record the rapidly changing face of the 20th century. DREADFUL MEMORIES: THE LIFE OF SARAH OGAN GUNNING 1988 39 min. VC #0942 Appalshop Films Story of the Appalachian singer/songwriter noted for her traditional singing and labour organizing compositions. ELLA FITZGERALD: SOMETHING TO LIVE FOR 1999 86 min. VC #5367 Home use - no classroom rights Charlotte Zwerin Profiles the life and career of Ella Fitzgerald. EMILY CARR: A WOMAN OF ALL SORTS 1997 46 min. VC #5207 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation The life of Emily Carr. Actors portray her as a young woman, and then as an older woman. EMILY DICKINSON 1986 60 min. VC #4254 Center for Visual History Exploration of the work and conjectures about the life of Emily Dickinson, includes dramatized incidents and illustrated readings with commentary by poets, writers, critics and biographers. THE ENDURING ENIGMA OF SUSANNA MOODIE 1997 50 min. VC #4598 Upper Canada Moving Picture Company Timothy Findley, Carol Shields, Margaret Atwood and Michael Peterman comment on the life and works of Susanna Moodie, and on her influence in contemporary Canadian literature. EVE LAMBERT 1978 52 min. MP #NFB 21D008-21D009 National Film Board of Canada Lambert collaborated with Norman McLaren on most of his films. In her retirement in the Eastern Townships, she has designed and equipped her home to serve her artistic interests. FAITH RINGGOLD: THE LAST STORY QUILT 1991-1995 28 min. VC #4974 Linda Freeman/David Irving Profiles the life and work of the noted Afro-American woman artist who specializes in painting on quilts and other cloth surfaces. FERRON, MARCELLE 1989 52 min. VC #1986 and MP #NFB 11E008-9 National Film Board of Canada Femme rebelle, peintre solitaire, artiste farouchement indépendante, mais aussi personnage public haut en couleur, engagé depuis quarante ans dans des polémiques retentissantes chaque fois que sont en cause la liberté de l'artiste ou celle de la femme, la justice ou l'égalité sociale. FICTION AND OTHER TRUTHS: A FILM ABOUT JANE RULE 1994 90 min. VC #3896 National Film Board of Canada Documentary about author and social activist Jane Rule, which traces her formative years in the United States, her move to Canada during the McCarthy era, the 1964 publication of her first novel about two women in love, The Desert of the Heart, and her continuing battle against censorship of all kinds. FIREWORDS 1986 85 min. VC #3491 National Film Board of Canada An intimate glimpse of three respected yet controversial Quebec writers, Louky Bersianik, Jovette Marchessault and Nicole Brossard whoc have contributed to the creation of a distinctive women's literature and heightened awareness of the politics of language. FOR MY PEOPLE: THE LIFE AND WRITING OF MARGARET WALKER 1998 27 min. VC #5038 Judith McCray Through interviews with writers, scholars, and Walker herself, examines the influence of Walker's writing on Black women writers. FOUR ARTISTS 1987 45 min. MP #4226 Blackwood Art critic Joan Simon interviews Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, and Susan Rothenburg. FRIDA 1992 108 min. VC Feature Paul Leduc Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is portrayed on her deathbed, reflecting on her life, as she lapses in and out of consciousness. FRIDA KAHLO 1983 62 min. VC #4032 RM Arts Profiles the life of the Mexican artist through many of the self portraits in which the she charted not only physical changes, but also the events in her life, including love, loss, politics and the relationship with Diego Rivera. GABRIELLE ROY 1998 77 min. VC #4844 Lea Pool The life of author Gabrielle Roy is recreated, with readings from her works, and interviews with family and friends, and her biographer Francois Ricard, her publisher, Alain Stankâe, and author Carol Shields. GALINA ULANOVA 1964 37 min. MP #4112 Central Documentary Film Studio, Moscow Traces the life of the celebrated Russian Dancer from her start with the Leningrad Kirov Ballet to her present role as teacher at the Bolshoi Ballet School in Moscow. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE 1977 60 min. VC #3677 Perry Miller Adato Explores the life and work of Georgia O'Keeffe, a woman artist commonly omitted from art history texts. GERTRUDE STEIN AND A COMPANION! 1991 87 min. VC # 0600 Tapestry Productions Based on the original stage play by Win Wells, a portrait of Stein and Alice Toklas, constructed out of historical materials. GLORIA NAYLOR 1992 22 min. VC #2928 RTSI-Swiss Television Novelist Gloria Naylor discusses the value and difficulty of maintaining an African America identity in a world dominated by whites. GOTTA MAKE THIS JOURNEY: SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK 1988 58 min. VC #1837 Eye of the Storm Prod. Documents the capella activists whose humanistic, socially conscious vocal textures voice the depth of the black struggle and newer struggles of feminism, ecology and nuclear sanity. HANDS OF HISTORY 1994 52 min. VC #3720 National Film Board of Canada Looks at four aboriginal women artists, Jane Ash Poitras, Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Rena Point Bolton and Doreen Jenses, each from different nations, experiences and artistic mediums. HANYA, PORTRAIT OF A DANCE PIONEER 1984 58 min. VC #2405 Dance Horizons Vintage stills, dance footage, Broadway musical scenes and interviews trace modern dance doyenne Hanya Holm's career from the 1930s to the 1980s. Includes interviews with students including Murray Lewis, Alwin Nikolais, and Harold Lang. HELEN LUCAS...HER JOURNEY, OUR JOURNEY 1996 52 min. VC #0041 Davey Productions Canadian painter, writer and feminist whose work moves from the dark, black and white figures of the Childhood drawings and the Diary series, to the book Angelica, about an angel who becomes human, through her friendship and collaboration with the writer Margaret Laurence, to vibrant, colourful acrylic canvasses of flowers. I, THE WORST OF ALL 1990 107 min. VC Feature Maria Luisa Bemberg This historical drama tells the story of Juana Ines de la Cruz, one of the greatest poets of the Spanish Siglo de Oro. To pursue her writing she enters a convent but the forces of the Inquistion intervene. IN A JAZZ WAY: A PORTRAIT OF MURA DEHN 198? 28 min. MP #6028 Filmakers Library A portrait of dancer/choreographer Mura Dehn who filmed the great jazz and be-bop dancers of Harlem's Savoy Ballroom in the 1940's and 1950's. A vital woman at 82, she is shown working with young breakdancers still devoted to black social dance. INTERNATIONAL SWEETHEARTS OF RHYTHM 1986 30 min. MP #6027 Greta Schiller Interviews members of the multi-racial, all-woman American jazz band which performed in major clubs during the 1940's and entertained American troops overseas. ISADORA DUNCAN: MOVEMENT FROM THE SOUL 1989 58 min. VC #2032 KQED, San Francisco The life and influence of the San Francisco born pioneer of the dance. Includes performances of her work by the Oakland Ballet: Water Study (1900), Narcissus (1900), Moments Musical (1901), Gypsy Mazurka (1902), Blue Danube Waltz (1902), Dance of the Furies (1911), Classical Duet (1906), Amazons (1906), Dance of the Blessed Spirits (1907), Allegro Vivace (1915), Revolutionary (1921) and Mother (1921). ISABEL ALLENDE: THE WOMEN'S VOICE IN LATIN-AMERICAN LITERATURE 1994 56 min. VC #3514 KQED San Francisco Interview with writer Isabel Allende, niece of Salvador Allende, in which she describes he emotions that inform her fiction and the events that set them in motion. JANE RULE ... WRITING 1996 26 min. VC #4717 National Film Board of Canada Jane Rule discusses her motivation, the amount of personal information in her writing, how characters come to her, and which books she chooses to write. Critic Marilyn Schuster talks of the perspective Rule gains from leaving the United States for Canada. JENI LEGON: LIVING IN A GREAT BIG WAY 1999 50 min. VC #5356 National Film Board of Canada A talented and passionate dancer who became the first Black woman to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio. JESSEYE NORMAN, SINGER 1986 74 min. VC #2573 Arts Council of Great Britain Portrait of the renowned classical singer through interviews, footage of performances, and a discussion of how the historical context of racial strife in the South affected her development. THE JOSEPHINE BAKER STORY 1991 129 min. VC Feature Home use - no classroom rights Josephine Baker achieved fame through exotic and erotic performances on the American vaudeville circuit and on the stages in Paris. JOY KOGAWA 1998 45 min. VC #4803 Vision TV June Callwood interviews author Joy Kogawa. The conversation focuses on the unpleasant moral questions addressed in her fiction and poetry. KAREN KAIN 1976 53 min. MP #3360-3361 Nielsen Ferns Behind the scenes view of her preparation for a cross Canada tour with the Ballet de Marseille. Includes several pas-de-deux with various leading dancers. KATHE KOLLWITZ 1981 44 min. VC# 4442 Arts Council of Great Britain Reading from Kathe Kollwitz' diaries, actress Brenda Bruce recreates the life of the artist. LADY DAY 1991 60 min. VC #4498 Matthew Seig Based on the book by Robert O'Meally, features rare TV and movie clips, along with commentary by a group of jazz instrumentalists and singers who knew Billie Holiday well. LAMENTS 1989 9 min. VC #1901/3094 Dia Art Foundation Based on the Jenny Holzer installation of thirteen stone sarcophagi and thirteen vertical LED signboards exhibited at the Dia Art Foundation, New York, March 1989-February 1990. LAURIE ANDERSON: A PORTRAIT IN THE FIRST PERSON 1997 30 min. VC #5655 CITY-TV Illustrated by footage from her performances, this interview with Anderson covers the influence of television on her art, the necessity of art to communicate, the influence of the new millenium, the place of women and her own confidence in herself and her art. LEE MILLER: THROUGH THE MIRROR 1995 54 min. VC #4882 Terra Luna Films Biographical film about the American model, news photographer, and friend to a variety of twentieth-century artistic figures, including Man Ray. LISTENING FOR SOMETHING: ADRIENNE RICH AND DIONNE BRAND IN CONVERSATION 1996 56 min. VC #2338 and #4162 National Film Board of Canada Adrienne Rich, noted American feminist poet, and Dionne Brand, a Trinidadian-Canadian feminist poet, enter into a dialogue on many subjects: citizenship, racism, exile, feminism, democracy and poetry. A LITANY FOR SURVIVAL: THE LIFE AND WORK OF AUDRE LORDE 1996 60 min. VC #4073 Third World Newsreel The poet and lesbian-feminist, talks about being lesbian and black in New York in the 1950s. Includes conversations and readings by Lorde, and comments by other writers. LONG TIME COMIN' 1993 52 min. VC #3047 National Film Board of Canada Documents the experiences of Faith Nolan and Grace Channer, two African-Canadian lesbian artists whose paintings are concerned with race, gender, class and sexuality. THE LOST GARDEN: THE LIFE AND CINEMA OF ALICE GUY-BLANCHE 1995 53 min. VC #3933 National Film Board of Canada Guy-Blanche, the first woman filmmaker, was head of production for Gaumont Studios before moving to New York with her husband where she established her own studio, Solax, in 1910. It became the largest pre-Hollywood studio in America but she lost control of it in the 1920s when her marriage collapsed. MADEMIOSELLE: A PORTRAIT OF NADIA BOULANGER 1987 55 min. VC #2130 Crocus Films Presents the life of the world-renowned music teacher through her own recollections, and those of her former students: Aaron Copeland, Philip Glass, Virgil Thomson, Michel Legrand, Louise Talma and Quincy Jones. MARGARET ATWOOD, ONCE IN AUGUST 1984 57 min. VC #1635 National Film Board of Canada Filmmaker Michael Rubbo visits Atwood at her summer island retreat to discuss what shapes her writing. MARGARET LAURENCE, FIRST LADY OF MANAWAKA 1978 52 min. VC #0655 National Film Board of Canada Traces Laurence's life from the early days. The images of her small Presbyterian home town still haunt her, as they haunt the characters whom we meet through readings from her work by Canadian actress Jane Eastwood. MARGARET LAURENCE IN CONVERSATION WITH CLARA THOMAS 1985 30 min. VC #1406 ECW Press Clara Thomas, friend and Laurence scholar, probes the author about her career, from travels in Africa to the writing of the Manawaka cycle of novels. MARGOT FONTEYN 1989 89 min. VC #3834 Antelope Productions Interviews and performances with Margot Fonteyn. MARIAN ANDERSON 1991 58 min. VC #2634 PBS Video Biography of virtuosa Marian Anderson from her spiritual singing as a child at the Union Baptist Church in Philadelphia to her retirement in 1965. MARTHA GRAHAM: THE DANCER REVEALED 1994 60 min. in VC #0555 Kultur International Home use - no classroom rights A biography of the American Dancer and Choreographer. MARY CASSATT 1975 30 min. VC #4613 Perry Miller Adato Tells the story of her years in Paris, relationship with Degas, the places she painted with on-location footage and stills. MARY WIGMAN - WHEN THE FIRE DANCES BETWEEN TWO POLES 1982 43 min. MP #4198 and VC #1776 Allegra Fuller Snyder Reveals the work and philosophy of Germany's foremost innovator in modern dance. Includes a complete performance of "Witch Dance" and footage of Wigman working with students. Narration for the film is taken from Wigman's own writings, translated by the dance scholar Walter Sorell. MAYA LIN: A STRONG CLEAR VISION 1995 98 min. VC #4084 American Film Foundation Portrays the career of Maya Lin with special focus on the design and emotional impact of her Vietnam veterans and Civil Rights Memorials. MOMENT OF LIGHT: THE DANCE OF EVELYN HART 1992 47 min. VC #1011 National Film Board of Canada Follows the Canadian Ballerina from a premiere in Munich to her debut at the Paris Opera in the role of Juliet. Reveals the emotional strain that accompanies her brief moments of ecstasy as she reaches for perfection. THE MONUMENT 1997 40 min. VC #5159 Arts Council of England Follows Rachel Whiteread who won an open jury competition in 1995 for a Holocaust memorial in Vienna. There are problems with suppliers and fabricators, then excavations on the site reveal remains of a medieval synagogue. Elections change the government of the city, the press controversy rages, and Rachel turns to her exhibition for the Venice Biennale of 1997. By the filming of the video, there was still no date for installation of the memorial. NOBODY'S HERE BUT ME: CINDY SHERMAN 1994 55 min. VC #4441 Sherman's works reveal "an unsettling landscape of solitary women". In an extended interview, she talks about the stages of her work, what her photographs are meant to do, and the sources of her inspiration. ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT 1989 165 min. VC Feature Home use - no classroom rights Beeban Kidron From the novel by Jeanette Winterson. The coming-of-age story of Jess, the adopted daughter of a deeply religious woman, who grows up isolated and insulated in the north of England in the 1960's. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PICTURE 1997 53 min. VC #5121 National Film Board of Canada A history of Canadian women artists. Takes us into the homes and studios of artists such as Doris McCarthy, Mary Pratt, Joyce Wieland, Jane Ash Poitras and Landon Mackenzie, who address the question of inequality in the art world. PAMELA WILLIAMS: MOMUMENTS TO LIFE 1998 30 min. VC #5193 Terrance Oddette Williams explains her interest in photography, why she prefers black and white to colour, and how she came to photograph statues in cemetaries in Paris, Milan and Rome. Illustrated by shots of her photos from the "Death divine" series. PARIS WAS A WOMAN 1996 75 min. VC #4444 Greta Schiller A combination of still photos, archival film footage, and interview commentary, documents the creative community of French, English and American women, many of whom were lesbians, who gravitated to the Left Bank in Paris during the early part of the 20th century. PEGGY BAKER: A PORTRAIT IN THE FIRST PERSON 1997 30 min. VC #5659 Distribution Access The dancer/choreographer discusses her passion for dancing and her view that "dancing is not just making up steps", but includes all parts of the dance, music, lighting and costume. THE PERSONAL FILE OF ANNA AKHMATOVA 1989 63 min. VC #2290 Lenfilms Studio Based on excerpts from the autobiography of Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, 1889-1966, and the memoirs of writer Lydia Chukovskaya entitled: Zapiski ob Anne Akhmatovoæi. PORTRAIT OF IMOGEN 1987 28 min. VC #2039 Meg Partridge Presents more than 250 photographs of Imogen Cunningham along with her own words about her long, creative and influential career as an independent American woman photographer. RAMONA: A STORY OF PASSION AND PROTEST 1988 28 min. VC #0569 KCET Production Documentary about Helen Hunt Jackson and her work for American Indian rights. Tells of her popular novel, Ramona, and its influence on American culture. RECLAIMING THE BODY: FEMINIST ART IN AMERICA 1995 58 min. VC #3326 Blackwood Prod Taking as starting point the exhibition "Bad Girls" at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City, critics and artists discuss the differences between woman artists of the 1990's and their immediate predecessors. REWRITNG THE SCRIPT: FEMINISM AND ART IN ONTARIO 1988 36 min. VC #1754 Women's Art Resource Centre A survey of contemporary work by forty women artists which reveals a diversity of practice. RIGHT OUT OF HISTORY: THE MAKING OF JUDY CHICAGO'S DINNER PARTY 1980 74 min. MP #4471-4472 Phoenix Films The Dinner party was a monumental artistic tribute to women of achievement throughout history. It consisted chiefly of painted ceramics and needlework. SHADOW MAKER: GWENDOLYN MACEWEN, POET 1998 60 min. VC #4757 Brenda Longfellow Portrait of the Canadian, using archival footage, photographs, and impressionistic scenes. Friends tell of her travels, her marriages, the changing themes of her poetry, and her untimely death. SHOOT FOR THE CONTENTS 1992 102 min. VC #3619 Trinh Min-Ha Ponders questions of power and change, politics and culture, as refracted by Tiananmen Square events and offers at the same time an inquiry into the creative process of filmmaking. SHOW GIRLS: CELEBRATING MONTREAL'S LEGENDARY BLACK JAZZ SCENE 1998 52 min. VC #5076 National Film Board of Canada Three women who danced in the legendary Black clubs of the day share their unforgettable memories of life in the middle of one of the world's hottest jazz spots. They tell stories against the backdrop of the fascinating social and political history that made Montreal the Eastern seaboard's jazz and nightclub centre for decades. THE SILENT FEMINISTS: AMERICA'S FIRST WOMEN DIRECTORS 1993 45 min. VC 3168 Anthony Slide and Jeffrey Goodman Examines the work of more than thirty women who have been directing American feature films since the beginning of the industry. Includes Alice Guy Blanche, Lois Webber, Margery Wilson, Frances Marion, Dorothy Davenport (Mrs. Wallace Reid) and Dorothy Arzner. STILL WATERS: THE POETRY OF P. K. PAGE 1990 38 min. VC # 0030 and MP #NFB 17B019 and #17C008 National Film Board of Canada Profile of the internationally known Canadian poet and painter, P.K. Page. SUZANNE FARRELL: ELUSIVE MUSE 105 min. VC #4823 Direct Cinema Weaves together vintage and never-before-seen archival clips of Suzanne Farrell's performances of Balanchine ballets, with the love story between Farrell and Balanchine. SYLVIA PLATH 1986 60 min. VC #4256 Center for Visual History Examines the controversial poet and the creative intensity with which she used her poems to confront her experiences as a woman and as an artist. Includes appearances by Plath and commentary by Judith Kroll and other writers, scholars and friends. 'TIS A PITY SHE'S A WHORE: THE FIRST WOMEN ON THE LONDON STAGE 1994 26 min. VC #5792 Films of the Humanities Discusses and portrays the background and training of the first professional English actresses, their roles, their influence on the plays written at the time, and how their sexuality and availability became the central feature of their professional identity. VIRGINIA WOOLF 1996 50 min. VC #5645 British Broadcasting Corporation Family photographs, archival footage, and interviews with family members, like Quentin Bell, her biographer, paint a portrait of Virginia Woolf, one of the 20th century's important and innovative novelists. VIRGINIA WOOLF, A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN 1996 53 min. VC #2590 Films for the Humanities Eileen Atkins recreates her one-woman stage show based on Virginia Woolf's 1929 talk on the problems of the writer and of women in general. WHAT DO YOU CALL AN INDIAN WOMAN WHO'S FUNNY? 1996 18 min. VC #4758 Gurinder Chadha By looking at four East Indian women cabaret performers and comedians, film explores who sets the agenda for comedy. Questions if humor is culturally specific and what type of humor "makes it" into television and appeals to mainstream audiences. WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT 1993 118 VC Feature Home use - no classroom rights Brian Gibson The turbulent relationship of popular singers Ike and Tina Turner eventually forces Tina to leave and find the courage to believe in herself. WILD WOMEN DON'T HAVE THE BLUES 1989 58 min. VC #2012 and #3364 Calliope Film Through historic performances and recordings, captures the spirit of such pioneering blueswomen as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainy. WONDERFUL HORRIBLE LIFE OF LENI RIEFENSTAHL 1993 182 min. VC #3595-3596 Libra Films Interviews with Leni Riefenstahl, now in her nineties, flash-backs and film sequences tell the story of the most controversial woman film director of all time, known for her films made during the third Reich and her relationship with Hitler. WOMEN'S WORK 1996 30 min. VC #1410 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Traces the impact of a week-long community residency in Richmond, Virginia, in which the Urban Bush Women, a theatre/dance group, express the joys and sorrows experienced by all women, especially African-Americans. A WRITER IN THE NUCLEAR AGE: A CONVERSATION WITH MARGARET LAURENCE 1985 10 min. MP #1331 and #NFB 02C025 National Film Board of Canada The author speaks a writer's social responsibility, language usage and reality, the nuclear threat, world leadership and the power of ordinary people to influence events. A WRITER'S WORK WITH TONI MORRISON, PARTS I AND II 1990 55 min. VC #1591 Public Affairs Television American author Toni Morrison discusses the characters in her work, the people in her life, the power of love, and the Afro-American presence in American literature with Bill Moyers.
AFRICAN MARKET WOMEN 1990 71 min. VC #0424 National Film Board of Canada Documents the creative and innovative measures used by East African women to get the financial credit they need to become significant participants in their local economies. Contents: From the shore (16 min.); Where credit is due (28 min.); Fair trade (28 min.). AMELIA EARHART: THE PRICE OF COURAGE 1993 60 min. VC #3934 WGBH The life of pilot Amelia Earhart as a pioneer in aviation, and the publicity that kept her in the limelight. AND WE KNEW HOW TO DANCE 1993 56 min. VC #3003 National Film Board of Canada Twelve Canadian women recall their work in munitions factories and farm labour during the manpower shortages of World War I. With no daycare or special accomodations, they lead the way to such post-war social changes as voting rights and expanded employment opportunities. ANNA LEONOWENS: GETTING TO KNOW YOU 1999 42 min. VC #5707 History Television Anna Leonowens, governess to the children of the King of Siam, is romanticized in the movie The King and I. Her real life reveals a strong-minded, well-travelled woman who wrote best sellers to support her family. ASKING DIFFERENT QUESTIONS 1996 51 min. VC #4220 National Film Board of Canada Explores the difficulties women scientists have faced in their fields and reveals the kinds of contributions women have brought to science. A BALANCING ACT: FAMILY AND WORK IN THE 90'S 1992 24 min. VC #2884 National Film Board of Canada Employers and employees who have negotiated flex time, job sharing and telecommuting arrangements in the workplace comment on the benefits. BEHIND THE SMILE 1993 46 min. VC #0385 Alan Handel Story of three young Thai women who are contributing to the fast-growing Thai economy but realizing no benefits. They work long hours in Bangkok factories in unsafe conditions, live in quarters controlled by management, and get minimum wage. BEYOND THE GLASS CEILING 1992 25 min. VC #3266 Cable News Network CNN anchor Susan Rock targets the obstacles and opportunities facing talented women as the attempt to move into the upper levels of American business. BEYOND THE OPEN DOOR 1990 30 min. VC #2318 Access Networks Provides statistical information to support the creation of employment equity programs for women, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities in Canadian workplaces. BREAD AND ROSES 1978 30 min. VC #0162 University of Toronto Examines the role of women in the Canadian labour force from 1850 to the present. BREAKING THE GLASS CEILING: WOMEN INTO SENIOR MANAGEMENT, WHY BOTHER? 1993 37 min. VC #2866 British Broadcasting Corporation British and American women who hold senior management positions advise on strategies to achieve objectives and describe the roadblocks they might encounter. CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS 1941 10 min. VC #5444 National Film Board of Canada Story of the women of Winnipeg, who, by canning fruit for the troops, raising money for mobile canteens, working in children's clinics, showed how women could help, not only in the war effort, but also in laying sound foundations for the peace to follow. CALLING THE SHOTS 1989 118 min. VC #2155 Janis Cole and Holly Dale Interviews with directors, producers, screenwriters and actresses focus on the diversity of films being made by women as they assume positions of authority in the film industry. THE CHILLY CLIMATE FOR WOMEN IN COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITIES 1991 28 min. VC #2249 University of Western Ontario. Interviews with women employed at Canadian colleges and universities in support services and teaching positions reveal the subtle discrimination which creates an unfavourable environment for them on campus. CLARENCE THOMAS AND ANITA HILL: PUBLIC HEARING, PRIVATE PAIN 1992 58 min. VC #2797 PBS Video Discusses the Thomas confirmation hearings, the charges of sexual harrassment by Anita Hill, and the reactions from Afro-Americans. CLASS OF PROMISE 1985 43 min. VC #1698 National Film Board Considers the potential impact of women executives on business culture by examining the career expectations of female students in the M.B.A. program at the University of Western Ontario and the experience of its recent women graduates. DOCTOR, LAWYER, INDIAN CHIEF 1986 29 min. VC #2014 National Film Board of Canada Profiles five Canadian native women who have achieved success in careers ranging from fishing to politics. DOCTOR WOMAN: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ELIZABETH BAGSHAW 1978 29 min. VC #2071 National Film Board of Canada Presents the achievements of Elizabeth Bagshaw, one of Canada's first women doctors, who was instrumental in changing public opinion about the role of women in medical care and the need for birth control. DOUBLE SHIFT 1997 48 min. VC #4323 CTV Production Questions whether women can achieve equality as long as they are expected to bear an unequal share of the work at home. F IS FOR FEMALE LABOUR FORCE 1980 8 min. VC #1991 University of Toronto Explores the causes and consequences of the dramatic increase in the number of Canadian married women in the workforce. FAIR PLAY: ACHIEVING GENDER EQUITY IN THE DIGITAL AGE 2000 57 min. VC # 5816 Independent Television Service Set at Fulmore Middle School in Austin, Texas, exposes counterproductive classroom behaviors and presents measures being taken to correct the misperception that computing is a males-only domain. FAST FOOD WOMEN 1991 29 min. VC #3602 Anne Lewis Johnson Examines the working conditions of women working in fast food restaurants in eastern Kentucky. FRANCOISE DUROCHER, SERVEUSE 1972 27 min. VC #0606 National Film Board of Canada Portrait d'une serveuse quebecoise. FREEDOM BAGS 1990 32 min. VC #2273 Abena Productions Archival materials are interwoven with the stories of African-American women who left the poverty of the post-Civil War South to work as domestics in large northern cities. GETTING STARTED IN PAY EQUITY 1991 13 min. VC #0747 Pay Equity Commission A training program for Ontario employers in the public and private sectors who are implementing a pay equity program. THE GLASS CEILING 1992 28 min. VC #5231 National Film Board of Canada Five working women discuss on-the-job discrimination and their use of strategy, humor, and determination to overcome obstacles to equity, equality, and career advancement. THE GLOBAL ASSEMBLY LINE 1986 60 min. MP #4464 and VC #0815 Educational TV/Film Centre The "free trade zones" workforce of the Third World is predominantly young and female. Interviews American industry executives who use this low wage workforce in Mexico and the Philippines and shows the effects on the workers' lives and their attempts to organize themselves to prevent exploitation. GRACE HARTMAN: THE FIRST WOMAN TO LEAD A MAJOR UNION IN CANADA 1997 22 min. VC #4606 Labour Video Communications A portrait of Grace Hartman, the first woman to lead the Canadian Union of Public Employees. Colleagues and friends, such as Judy Darcy and Ray Arsenault of CUPE, Harry Arthurs, labour lawyer and fomer president of York University, talk of her accomplishments for women workers. HANDMAIDENS AND BATTLEAXES 1989 55 min. VC #1301 Silver Films Attributes the current shortage of trained nurse to poor working conditions, low pay and lack of recognition for their contributions to health care. Describes the efforts nurses are making to change the situation. HOOKERS ON DAVIE 1984 88 min. VC #2156 Spectrum An excursion into the world of male/female transvestites and transsexual prostitutes who work on Vancouver's Davie Street. IN HER CHOSEN FIELD 1989 28 min. VC #2128 National Film Board of Canada Farm women from central and western Canada describe the difficulties of working within a precarious agricultural economy and their efforts for renumeration for their contribution. IT WAS A WONDERFUL LIFE 1994 60 min. VC #3462 Michele Ohayon The plight of homeless women in the United States who once lived prosperous lives. LADIES OF THE 9TH FLOOR 1998 50 min. VC #5503 Gala Films Waitresses who worked at the 9th floor restaurant in Eaton's downtown Montréal store and women patrons reminisce about standards of service and what the restaurant meant to them and their families. LAVENDER LIMELIGHT 1997 57 min. VC 5092 Home use - no classroom rights Arcadia Productions Conversations with lesbian film directors, including clips from their works, in which they explore their sexual identity, growing up gay, inspirations and techniques of filmaking. THE LEGACY OF MARY MCEWAN 1987 56 min. VC #0730 National Film Board of Canada A tribute to one of Canada's first feminist psychiatrists, based on the personal stories of women to whom she was a mentor: artists Helen Lucas and Joyce Wieland: writers Judy Steed, Olivia War and Doris Anderson: executive Bonnie Fowke; York University Professor Shelagh Wilkinson. THE LIFE AND TIMES OR ROSIE THE RIVETER 1980 65 min. MP #3382 VC #1245 Clarity Educational Prod. Five women reminisce about their jobs and working conditions during World War II. Includes contemporary newsreel footage of job recreating campaigns. LIVE NUDE GIRLS UNITE! 70 min. 2000 VC #0124 Julia Query/John Montoya Follows Julia Query, a peepshow stripper, on her journey to help organize the only strippers union in the United States. THE LOST GARDEN: THE LIFE AND CINEMA OF ALICE GUY-BLANCHE 1995 53 min. VC #3933 National Film Board of Canada Guy-Blanche, the first woman filmmaker, was head of production for Gaumont Studios before moving to New York with her husband where she established her own studio, Solax, in 1910. It became the largest pre-Hollywood studio in America but she lost control of it in the 1920s when her marriage collapsed. MAIDS ANDS MADAMS 1985 53 min. VC #0105 Mira Hamermesh Examines the painful relation between poor black maids and wealthy white madams in South Africa and shows the work underway by the South African Domestic Workers Association (SADWA). MARGARET MEAD: AN OBSERVER OBSERVED 85 min. 1995 VC #4547 Alan Berliner Deals with the controversies as well as the accomplishments of Margaret Mead's life. Weaves together a story of a scientist, adventurer and international celebrity whose ideas shaped how we think about ourselves. MARIA 1977 47 min. MP #3419 National Film Board of Canada At 24, Maria, who has worked in the same factory for 10 years, finds the predictability of her life oppressive. She is expected to marry but she insists on other choices. She starts the long and frustrating process of unionizing her fellow employees. MARTHA & ETHEL 1995 78 min. VC Feature Home use - no classroom rights Jyll Johnstone Through interviews, vintage photographs, home movies and newsreel footage, Martha & Ethel chronicles the lives of two nannies and the upper-class families they served from the 1940's to the present. MEAN THINGS HAPPENING 1993 60 min. VC #1171 Blackside In the American democracy of the 1930's two visions of liberty collided as working men and women battled landowners and factory managers for the right to join a union in the midst of great economic turmoil and a tide of government reform. MISS AMY AND MISS MAY 1990 40 min. VC #2335 Sistren Women' Theatre Group A docudrama on Jamaican activists, Amy Bailey, daughter of black country school teachers, and May Farquharson, daughter of white plantation gentry, who crossed racial and class boundaries to campaign together for pensions for the elderly, care for homeless children, birth control for women and equal employment opportunities for all. MODEL 1980 129 min. VC #1949 Frederick Wiseman Models are observed at work with fashion and product photographers and functioning within the milieu of fashion agencies. NO TIME TO STOP: STORIES OF IMMIGRANT AND VISIBLE MINORITIES WOMEN 1990 29 min. VC #2268 National Film Board Canada Kwai Fong Lai from Hong Kong, Alberta Onyejewe from Ghana, and Angela Williams from Jamaica personalize the issues facing immigrant women who are forced into low-paying jobs regardless of their education if they lack the job training or language skills employers demand. NO WAY! NOT ME 1987 29 min. VC #5230 and MP #NFB 06C025 and #NFB 13D025 National Film Board of Canada Noted Canadian feminist and educator Rosemary Brown encourages Canadian teenagers to continue their education with an historical account of the realities of the feminization of poverty. NUMBER OUR DAYS 1977 30 min. MP #3762 Hackford/Littman Interviews conducted by anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff document the lives of Jewish senior citizens who make the Israel Levin Senior Adult Centre in Venice, California the focal point of their existence. OLDER, STRONGER, WISER 1989 28 min. VC #0634 National Film Board of Canada Focuses on five rural and urban black women who speak compellingly of what life was like for Black women in Canada from the 1920's to the 1950's. THE PAJAMA GAME 1999 120 min. VC Feature Home use - no classroom rights Stanley Donen Workers in a pajama factory demand a pay rise, but their lady negotiator falls for the new boss. PEACE, WHAT PEACE? 1997 29 min. VC #4653 Inter-Church Committee on Human Rights in Latin America Tells the stories of men, women and children who labour on the sugar and coffee plantations of Guatemala, in the sweatshops of El Salvador. THE POWER AND THE PEOPLE 1999 120 min. VC #5690 Steeplechase Films production Presents New York from 1898 to 1918 when industry drew in immigrants from around the world who transformed the city physically, culturally and politically. Concludes with the tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and the reform legislation passed in its aftermath. PRAIRIE WOMEN 1986 45 min. VC #1691 National Film Board of Canada Documents the work of co-operative female groups such as the Women Grain Growers and the United Farm Women which improved the social conditions of Canadian Prairie women. PROUD WOMEN, STRONG STEPS 1987 30 min. MP #3995 Women Working With Immigrant Women Recounts the hardships of married immigrant women who work in low paying hazardous jobs and are responsible for home and child care. PROUDLY SHE MARCHES 1945 19 min. MP #2384 and #2437 National Film Board of Canada Recruitment film offering women the excitement and challenge of new kinds of work in the armed services. The visual message, however, suggests this work is merely temporary . "QUEL NUMERO, WHAT NUMBER?": THE ELECTRONIC SWEATSHOP 1985 79 min. VC #0001-0002 Sophie Bissonnette Describes the negative impact of new technology on occupations where women dominate. The risk of layoff or relocation is high as advances in computer technology allow companies to centralize operations and eliminate branch plants. French language version also available. RECONTRE AVEC UNE FEMME REMARQUABLE: LAURE GAUDREAULT 1983 89 min. VC Feature Filmes Cenatos Lure Gaudreault, moderne, institutrice, journaliste, synidcaliste, poursuivit toute sa vie, avec passion, une seule cause: sortir le Quebec d'alors de son ignorance, de san naivete, de sa sevilite. THE RIGHT TO CARE 1991 60 min. VC #2332 Laura Sky Documents the developing militancy among Canadian nurses as they resist shifts in the health care system towards privatization and corporate agendas. RIGHTEOUS BABES 1998 50 min. VC #5834 Pratibha Parmar. Women rock musicians and women music critics and scholars discuss feminism and its expression in the work of women rock musicians. RISING UP STRONG: WOMEN IN THE 80'S: PART ONE: AT WORK AND AT HOME 1993 30 min. VC #3422 Linda Briskin Examines the economic problems women face, low wages, job ghettoes, responsibility for housework, inadequate childcare facilities, and offers suggestions for action that women can take collectively to change the situation. ROSIES OF THE NORTH 1999 47 min. VC #5392 and #5461 National Film Board of Canada Women who worked built aircraft during World War II reminisce about their jobs, coping with men's attitudes and the working conditions. Among them is aircraft designer, Elsie MacGill, the first women graduate engineer in Canada. SENTIMENTAL WOMEN NEED NOT APPLY: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NURSE 1988 60 min. VC #0073 Florentine Films Follows the evolution of nursing from a domestic chore to profession, pointing out the exploitative elements still present. SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE WORK PLACE 1988 20 min. VC #0429 Mobius Media Explores the issue of sexual harassment in the Canadian workplace, providing information on employers' responsibilities and employees' rights. SHADES OF GREY 1982 25 min. MP #3624 Graphics Communications Prod./Universal City Studios A man and a woman are asked by their company's personnel officer to investigate sexual harassment complaints. Their working relationship is offered as a model while the film reveals the different interpretations that men and women place on office behaviour and suggests that communications may sometimes resolve problems. THE SILENT FEMINISTS: AMERICA'S FIRST WOMEN DIRECTORS 1993 45 min. VC 3168 Anthony Slide and Jeffrey Goodman Examines the work of more than thirty women who have been directing American feature films since the beginning of the industry. Includes Alice Guy Blanche, Lois Webber, Margery Wilson, Frances Marion, Dorothy Davenport (Mrs. Wallace Reid) and Dorothy Arzner. SINGLE MOTHERS LIVING ON THE EDGE 1990 28 min. VC #2337 Churchill Films Three single mothers of different ages and backgrounds describe their frustrating experiences with dead-end jobs, lack of child care and insufficient child support. SOLIDARITY 1973? 11 min. MP #1334 and VC #5340 Joyce Wieland A film on the Dare strike of the early 1970s. Hundreds of feet and legs, milling, marching and picketing, with the word Solidarity superimposed on the screen. SWEATING FOR A T-SHIRT 1998 23 min. VC #5346 Medea Benjamin UCLA freshman Arlen Benjamin journeys to Honduras to investigate unfair conditions and practices of sweatshop industry in the maquilas owned by large Western clothing companies, which sell billions of dollars of clothes in college stores. SWEET SUGAR RAGE 1986 41 min. VC #1475 Sistren Theatre Collective Conditions facing female workers on a Jamaican sugar estate are revealed by the Women of the Sistren Theatre Collective as they recreate in a drama workshop the experience of Iris who tangled with unions and management over her right to equal pay as a female supervisor. TALENT NEEDED NOW 194? 3 min. VC #1159 National Film Board of Canada Recruitment ads for the Canadian Women's Army Corps, and Khaki, the Canadian Army Bulletin. Women are offered roles as cooks, typists, and stenographers. THESE HANDS 1993 45 min. VC #3216 Flora M'mbugu-Schelling Centres on the lives of women in Tanzania and Mozambique who work as stone crushers. They work against the backdrop of quarries opened up by contractors using heavy machinery. 'TIS PITY SHE'S A WHORE: THE FIRST WOMEN ON THE LONDON STAGE 1994 26 min. VC #4874 Fabula Films production Discusses and portrays the background and training of the first professional English actresses, their roles, their influence on the plays written at the time, and how their sexuality and availability became the central feature of their professional identity. TOKYO GIRLS 2000 57 min. VC #5878 Penelope Buitenhuis A candid journey into the world of four young Canadian women who work as well-paid hostesses in exclusive Japanese nightclubs. UNION MAIDS 1976 48 min. MP #4334 and VC #2520 Julia Reichert Deals with the rise of the labour movement in the United States in the 1930's, particularly as it relates to the organizing of women. AN UNTIDY PACKAGE: WOMEN AND THE NEWFOUNDLAND COD MORATORIUM 1997 48 min. VC #4733 National Film Board of Canada Features five women from small coastal communities in Newfoundland and Labrador who were thrown out of work by the 1992 cod-fishing moratorium. Some spent years in the fishery but are ineligible for the federal government's compensation program while others find the money they receive is barely enough to make ends meet. VIRGINIA WOOLF, A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN 1996 53 min. VC #2590 Films for the Humanities Eileen Atkins recreates her one-woman stage show based on Woolf's 1929 talk about problems of the woman writer and of women in general. VOICE OF OUR OWN 1988 25 min. VC #0195 Shadowatcher A record of the formation of a national organization for Canadian immigrant and visible minority women which demonstrates how disadvantaged groups can empower themselves politically. A WEB NOT A LADDER 1993 23 min. VC #2288 National Film Board of Canada Advice from six successful businesswomen designed to inform and inspire women entrepreneurs. WHY MEN DON'T IRON, 3: THE EMOTIONAL DIFFERENCE 1998 52 min. VC #5578 Quality Time Television production The era of equal opportunities raised expectations that men and women's roles would become interchangeable. Explores the neurological elements that help to perpetuate persistent divisions of labor, and investigates the biological basis of our seemingly unchangeable emotional systems. THE WILLMAR 8 1980 55 min. MP #4346 and VC #4687 California Newsreel Tells the story of eight women bank tellers in Willmar, Minn., who formed an independent union and went on strike because of employment discrimination. WINNING WITH WOMEN: CHANGING THE WAY WE LEAD 1999 28 min. VC #5638 LearnCom Anson Dorrance, coach of a women's soccer team discusses the differences he has recognized in leading and motivating women versus men to victory on and off the soccer field WITH BABIES AND BANNERS: STORY OF THE WOMEN'S EMERGENCY BRIGADE 1978 45 min. MP #4349 and VC #2333 New Day Films Traces the role of women in the formation of the United Auto Workers. Focuses on the contributions of the Women's Emergency Brigade to the labour movement of the 1930's. WOMEN ARE WARRIORS 1942 14 min. MP #2273 National Film Board of Canada Shows how the women of Great Britain, Russia, and Canada are working to support the war effort in World War II. WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS: MAKING A DIFFERENCE 1997 25 min. VC #4560 Positive Impact Productions Four Canadian women entrepreneurs from the hospitality, food, art, and communications areas discusses why she started her business, how it was financed, and the style and leadership of the company. WOMEN IN DEFENSE 1945 11 min. MP #1211 U.S. Office of Education Shows how women in 1942 contributed to the war programs in science, industry, and the voluntary services. WOMEN IN THE 40'S AND 50'S 1987 109 min. VC #3493 National Film Board of Canada Eight archival films that document our changing perceptions of working women. Contents: Women at war (10 min.) 1942; Wings on her shoulder (11 min.) 1943; Proudly she marches (18 min.) 1943; Careers and cradles (11 min.) 1947; Women at work (12 min.) 1958; Service in the sky (9 min.) 1957; Needles and pins (10 min.) 1957; Is it a woman' s world? (29 min.) 1957. THE WOMEN OUTSIDE: KOREAN WOMEN AND THE U.S MILITARY 1995 53 min. VC #5178 Third World Newsreel Looks at young South Korean women who work in sex related enterprises adjacent to American military bases in South Korea. THE WONDERFUL HORRIBLE LIFE OF LENI RIEFENSTAHL 1993 182 min. VC #3595-3596 Omega Films and Nomad Films Interviews with Leni Riefenstahl, now in her nineties, flash-backs and film sequences tell the story of the most famous woman film director of all time and her relationship with Hitler. WORKING MOTHERS SERIES 1973 111 min. VC #5770 Ten short films to promote discussion about the contradictions in women's lives. Contents: It's not enough; Mothers are people; Luckily I need little sleep; Tiger on a tight leash; Would I ever like to work; And they lived happily ever after; Like the trees; They appreciate you more; Spring and fall of Nina Polanski; Our dear sisters. THE WORKPLACE HUSTLE 1980 30 min. MP #3756 ABC-TV Explores the issue of sexual harassment of women in the workplace with consultant Lin Farley.
ALL DRESSED IN WHITE 1993 19 min. VC #4222 Ligia Giese Weddings in three generations of a Catholic family originally from India and now living in California. The brides attempt to reconcile traditional Indian, Catholic and American values in her choice of wedding dress. AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY, VOLUME 1 1999 100 min. VC #5580 Zohe Film 1. Welcome to America: Karen and Bill reflect on the early difficult years of their interracial relationship. 2. At piece of the puzzle is missing: At Colgate University, their eldest daughter Cicily struggles with relationships with fellow students--black and white. AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY, VOLUME 2 1999 100 min. VC #5581 Zohe Film 3. I've fallen and I can't get up: In Nigeria, Cicily's classmates from Colgate divide along racial lines, leaving her in the middle and she falls in love with a Nigerian. 4. It's another new year and I ain't gone: Returning to New York from Africa, Cicily senses that her parents don't fully comprehend her feelings. AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY, VOLUME 3 1999 100 min. VC #5582 Zohe Film 5. Chaney & the boy: Chaney, at the young age of 12, has found her first boyfriend and wants to date--an issue over which Bill and Karen are at odds. 6. You and me against the world: Returning to Colgate University, Cicily is again ostracized by the black community on campus. Karen goes to visit her mother in Florida, where she doesn't feel comfortable bringing Bill and the kids. AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY, VOLUME 4 1999 100 min. VC #5583 Zohe Film 7. True love: Karen, facing immediate surgery, manages to attend Cicily's college graduation. Bill nurses Karen back to health. 8. Marion truth: Bill returns to his hometown Marion, Ohio where his two children from a previous marriage live. One is facing imprisonment. AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY, VOLUME 5 1999 100 min. VC #5584 Zohe Film 9. It's my job: Cicily tries to find a "meaningful" job, while her father's career troubles mount and he drinks more heavily. 10. We were never Ozzie & Harriet: Twenty-five years after meeting, Bill and Karen attend her high school reunion, to face the people who ostracized her long ago. ANGRY ANGELS:VIOLENT YOUNG GIRL 1999 40 min. VC #5476 CBC Newsworld Sharla, 6, and Stephanie, 14, live with their mothers and siblings in single-parent families, and exhibit growing anger and aggressive behaviour. They enroll in programs at Toronto's Earl's Court Family Centre to help the girls control their anger, and their parents to better manage discipline. BABY BUSINESS 1995 59 min. VC #3847 National Film Board of Canada Journey through Haiti, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, the United States and Canada, where personal stories illustrate the legal and social problems of international adoption. BABY LOVE 1997 57 min. VC #4845 Carol Cassidy Teenage mothers say what they want, what they need, what they hope for, and what they face. BECOMING A WOMAN IN OKRIKA 1990 27 min. VC #2272 Kamel Films Shows how five young women undergo a traditional rite of passage that used to be a necessary prelude to marriage in Okrika, Nigeria. BLACK MOTHER, BLACK DAUGHTER 1989 29 min. VC #0199 National Film Board Recounts the significant role women have played in developing and preserving a sense of pride and identity among Nova Scotia's Community. CHILD BRIDES 1999 51 min. VC #5619 Gill Barnes Travels to the rural regions of Ethiopia to expose the common practice of child brides and the consequences for the young girls who often give birth before they are out of childhood. CHRIS AND BERNIE 1975 25 min MP #6347 Pandora Films Combines interviews, narration, still photography, music montage, and cinema verite footage in presenting events in the daily lives of two 25-year-old divorced women who have young children and are working. DADI'S FAMILY 1981 60 min. VC #2303 PBS Video Examines a large family in northern India and how it adapts to change. Dadi, married at 16, lives in her mother-in-law's rural house and has to deal with the internal pressure of an extended family household. DAUGHTER RITE 1979 53 min. VC #4484 Michelle Citron Explores the mother/daughter and sibling sister relationships as seen from the perspective of two daughters. DAUGHTERS OF THE COUNTRY SERIES: 1989 116 min. each National Film Board of Canada IKWE/MISTRESS MADELEINE VC #1073-1074 1. Ikwe: A Canadian Ojibwa woman is given by her tribe in marriage to an ambitious Scots fur trader who does not respect her cultural values. 2. Mistress Madeleine: A Metis woman is torn between loyalty to her brother who defies the Hudson's Bay Company's fur trade monopoly and her common law husband who works for them. PLACES NOT OUR OWN/THE WAKE VC #1075-1076 3. Places not our own: Arriving in the prairie town of Napinka in 1929 and forced to live as squatters, Ross Lesperance struggles for her family's survival despite the townsfolk's prejudices against the Metis. 4. The wake (57 min.): The romance between a Metis woman and RCMP officer. DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE 1998 80 min. VC #6005 Kim Longinotto/Ziba Mir-Hosseini Looks inside an Iranian divorce court and shows how women are treated under Islamic law. DOUBLE SHIFT 1997 48 min. VC #4323 CTV Production Questions whether women can achieve equality as long as they are expected to bear an unequal share of the work at home. ESTHER, BABY & ME 2000 21 min. VC #6008 Louis Taylor Louis Taylor's autobiographical film about his reaction to hearing his partner is pregnant, and his experiences during the early stages of fatherhood. Takes on issues of race, gender and relationships. FIFTEEN JOYS OF MARRIAGE 1972 11 min. VC #0262 University of Toronto Illustrates medieval attitudes to women, particularly the portrayal of women as evil and the cause of the downfall of man. FLAT IS BEAUTIFUL 1998 50 min. VC #5226 Sadie Benning Intimate and emotionally evocative study of Taylor, a brilliant but isolated 11 year old girl living in Milwaukee with her single mother and her mother's gay roommate. FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE 1993 55 min. VC #1278 David Collier Looks at couples who have been married for fifty or more years. FOR RICHER, FOR POORER 1988 30 min. MP #3582 and VC #4111 National Film Board of Canada Follows a woman who has left an abusive husband as she copes with the responsibility of securing adequate housing and financial security for herself and two young children. GREAT GRAND MOTHER 1975 29 min. VC #1692 National Film Board of Canada Archival material and dramatic scenes reveal the contribution of women in the early settlement of the Canadian prairies. A HOUSE DIVIDED: CAREGIVER STRESS AND ELDER ABUSE 1988 35 min. VC #1653 National Film Board of Canada Four situations show how elderly people are subject to physical and psychological abuse within the family. INTIMATE RELATIONS 1982 50 min. MP #4147 British Broadcasting Corporation Pin-points the emotional pitfalls that have become dominant causes of marital breakdown and show how couples can avoid these mistakes and make intimacy the basis of a stable relationship. INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS IN THREE LESBIAN FAMILIES LIVING IN AMERICAN SOCIETY 1996 60 min. VC #4599 Maureen A. Asten Interviews with three lesbian couples and their children: Susie has just met a new partner; Pam's partner Sandy has achieved good relations with Pam's daughters and former husband Mel; Ruth and her partner have adopted Tammy, a black, deaf girl. KIDS RAISING KIDS 1993 30 min. VC #3864 Heartland Motion Pictures Follows two teenage mothers able to complete their high school degrees because of a high school daycare program. JUST A WEDDING 1999 57 min. VC #5430 National Film Board of Canada Nadia DeFranco and Dennis Sweet find each other through the Internet, meet, and fall in love. As they prepare for their wedding, they negotiate that obstacle course of fantasy, pragmatism, tradition and frivolity that is the first proving ground of a couple's future compatability. LABOUR OF LOVE 1998 45 min. VC #5073 National Film Board of Canada Five intimate profiles of caregivers and their families. LADYBIRD, LADYBIRD 1994 102 min. VC Feature Home use - no classroom rights Ken Loach Maggie Conlon is an unwed mother with four children by four different fathers. While she loves her children deeply, she seems unable to escape the self-destructive behavior repeatedly brings her into conflict with the local social services department. LEILA 1997 125 min. VC Feature Dariush Mehrjui A wife in Iran who cannot have children is pressured by her in-laws into persuading her husband to take another wife so that he may have sons. LOVE, CULTURE AND THE KITCHEN SINK 48 min. 2001 VC #1208 Sharon McNamara Four couples, each at a different stage of their lives, discuss their backgrounds, and how their cultural differences affect them and their children. MAH JONG ORPHAN 1994 45 min. VC #0081 Honey Fisher Susan, born and raised in China, and her daughter Lily, born in Canada find their differences, not only generational but also cultural, have prevented them from developing a close mother/daughter bond. MARRIAGE TODAY 1988 58 min. VC #1872 Glen-Warren Host Isabel Bassett presents marriage in some of its forms: traditional marriage, double-income marriage, childless marriage and the problems faced by men and women to try and make a martial partnership work. MARRYING 1984 57 min. VC #1672 ASH Films Examines the central role of the family in Chinese society, the changing status of women and the reactions of a rural community to the government policy which limits children to one per family. MARY SILLIMAN'S WAR 1993 93 min. VC #0032 Heritage Films and Citadel films Based on the letters of Mary Silliman, written during the American Revolutionary War, in Fairfield, Conn. After the kidnapping of her husband by the British, Mary secures her his freedom while still handling domestic affairs and coping with the war. ME, MOM & MONA 1993 20 min. VC #3555 Mina Shum Centres around the women in the Shum family - So Yee Shum and her two daughters, Mina and Mona. Mina Shum rolls the camera, while she and her mother and sister talk about the things they can't tell Dad. MI'KMAQ FAMILY 1994 33 min. VC #3732 National Film Board Mi'kmaq filmmaker and mother, Catherine Anne Martin offer a reflective journey into Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq society as she looks to the ways of the past for guidance in raising her children. MILLION DOLLAR BABIES 1998 80 min. VC Feature Home use - no classroom rights Bernard Zuckerman Based on the novel Time of their lives: the Dionne tragedy, recounts how the quintuplets were removed from their family and exploited for profit. MOMS: MOTHERS TALKING ABOUT MOTHERHOOD 1999 56 min. VC #5635 WETA Mothers from all walks of life share their advice, proverbs, frustrations, tales of child rearing, memories of their own mothers, and, of course, the eternal truths that only a mother can know. MOTHER LOVE 1960 26 min. MP #3457 and VC #2319 Columbia Broadcasting System-TV Dr. Harry F. Harlow studies into the infant-mother relationship, using new-born rhesus monkeys as subjects demonstrate that the most important factor is body contact. MOTHERLAND : TALES OF WONDER 1994 90 min. VC #3536 National Film Board of Canada Spans two generations of women of different backgrounds and cultures: those who raised children in the 50s and 60s, and those who are just beginning; each trying to deal with mixed messsages and unforgiving expectations. MS. CONCEPTIONS 1995 55 min. VC #3725 National Film Board of Canada Over the past decade the birthrate among single college-educated women in their thirties has nearly tripled. Examines both sides of the "single mother by choice" debate. MURIA 1982 50 min. VC #2297 British Broadcasting Corporation Presents the marriage practices of the Muria who live in comparative isolation in central India. Fathers and senior men negotiate the children's marriages. MY MOTHER, MY FATHER 1984 33 min. MP #3416 Terra Nova Films Explores the issues involved in caring for elderly parents by focusing on the various ways in which four families are handling the problem. NANA MOM AND ME 1974 47 min. MP #4225 Anomoly Films Amalie Rothschild deals with the relationship among three generations of women, her grandmother, her mother and herself. NO LONGER SILENT 1986 57 min. VC #1276 National Film Board of Canada Follows the efforts of women in India to deal with discrimination in marriage that is supported by religion and tradition. Abuse of the dowry system and amniocentesis are examined. NOSE AND TINA 1987 28 min. VC #4112 National Film Board of Canada Nose and Tina (later Linda M.) are two people in love with a somewhat unusual story; he works as a brakeman, she as a hooker. OF HOPSCOTCH AND LITTLE GIRLS 1999 52 min. VC #5881 National Film Board of Canada Hopscotch embodies the spirit of childhood, and little girls all over the world play it. But all too often, particularly in nonindustrialized nations, girls' childhoods are stolen, their dreams for the future shattered. Girls from around the globe share their stories of abuse and neglect, and also their hopes and dreams in a world that too often considers them second-class citizens. ONCE WERE WARRIORS 1994 102 min. VC Feature Home use - no classroom rights Lee Tamahori In a poor suburb of Auckland, Jake and Beth Heke live a life defined by drunken parties, unstable friendships, and confrontations with authorities. Beth's inner strength and desire to save her family make her the solid center around which this story of tragedy and hope is constructed. PATRICIA'S MOVING PICTURE 1980 26 min. VC #0864 National Film Board of Canada Focuses on the mid-life crisis of a woman, who comes to grips with a new life role as her children begin to grow up. PLAYING FOR KEEPS 1990 45 min. VC #2126 National Film Board of Canada Three teenage single mothers describe the economic hardships of raising a child alone and the limitations it places on their social life and education. QUEER SON: FAMILY JOURNEYS TO UNDERSTANDING & LOVE 1993 48 min. VC #3931 Vickie Seitchik The mother of a gay son interviews parents of gay and lesbian children and interweaves their stories with discussions with her son. ROCK-A-BYE BABY 1971 20 min. VC #0638 Time-Life Presents some of the techniques that psychologists use to measure mothering practices in the human and animal world during the important infant years. SCENES FROM A CORNER STORE 1996 45 min. VC #4354 Sun-Kyung Yi An intimate portrait of a Korean-Canadian family dealing with a generation and cultural gap. Highlights the lives of three sisters trying to cope with divided loyalties. A SEASON OF GRANDMOTHERS 1976 29 min. VC #1904 KSPS-TV Native women from the Spokane, Coeur d'Alene and Nez Perce tribes recollect their experiences as they pass along sacred tales and traditional crafts to their grandchildren. SINGLE MOTHERS LIVING ON THE EDGE 1990 28 min. VC #2337 Churchill Films Three single mothers of different ages and backgrounds describe their frustrating experiences with dead-end jobs, lack of child care and insufficient child support. SO FAR FROM INDIA 1983 49 min. VC #2577 Mira Nair Describes the experiences of a recently arrived Indian immigrant in America, contrasting them with the traditional world of his new bride, whom he left behind in India. STEPDANCING: PORTRAIT OF A REMARRIED FAMILY 1987 27 min. MP #3987 Kensington Communication Presents the problems that face members of remarried families through their own words. TEENAGE FATHER 1978 30 min. MP #3668 New Visions Inc. AN introspective look at teenage parenthood from points of view of the unmarried father, his peers, the mother, and both sets of parents. THANK YOU AND GOOD NIGHT! 1993 81 min. VC Feature Home use - no classroom rights Jan Oxenberg The filmmaker gathered her family around to ask important questions about grandma: "Why didn't she teach mom to cook?" "Was her life rotten or did she make herself msierable?". THEM THAT'S NOT 1993 55 min. VC #3004 National Film Board of Canada Single women and single mothers who have experienced Canada's social assistance system (or welfare) identify its shortcomings. THESE SHOES WEREN'T MADE FOR WALKING 1995 27 min. VC #3862 Paul Lee A documentary about four generations of Chinese women in the filmmaker's family - their lives, their loves, their shoes. THIS IS NO TIME FOR ROMANCE 1967 28 min. MP #3674 National Film Board Describes how a wife and mother of a growing family feels about her dream of romance and the feeling that life is passing her by. TO A SAFER PLACE 1987 59 min. MP #3991-3992 and VC #3494 National Film Board of Canada An incest victim attempts to reconcile her past by disclosing her childhood and confronting her family. THE TRUE STORY OF LINDA M. 1995 67 min. VC #4113 National Film Board of Canada The portrait of a woman travelling from despair to strength, this film follows Linda and her children, sisters, mother, boyfriends and various extended family members as they move in and out of Linda's life. TU AS CRIE LET ME GO 1998 96 min. VC #5845 National Film Board of Canada Director Anne Claire Poirier enters the world of Montreal's street people - young drug addicts, prostitutes and people living with AIDS - to reflect upon the events leading to her daughter Yanne's tragic death. TWO A. M. FEEDING 1983 24 min. MP #2289 New Day Films Documents the tribulations of new parenthood through the observation of first-time mothers and fathers. Covers breast-feeding, physical recovery, infant fussiness, sexuality, marital disagreements, role of the father, and single parenthood. UNVEILED: THE MOTHER DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIP 1997 55 min. VC #4554 National Film Board of Canada A candid, revealing look at mothers and daughters in the throes of planning a wedding. WAITING TO EXHALE 1995 124 min. VC Feature Home use - no classroom rights Forest Whitaker Story of four African-American women who journey through a modern labyrinth of husbands and lovers, jobs and makeovers. WEDDING 1970 45 min. MP #4340 British Broadcasting Corporation Compares wedding celebrations in Esher and Coine in England, in New Guinea, in Botswana, and in a Himalayan village. WHEN STRANGERS REUNITE 1999 52 min. VC #5433 National Film Board of Canada Describes the heartache of separation and sacrifice and then the rebuilding of relationships when women from the Philippines working as domestics in Canada reunite with their families. WHY MEN DON'T IRON. 1, LEARNING THE DIFFERENCE 1998 52 min. VC #5576 Channel Four Studies, both practical and scientific llustrate the variances between the learning patterns of boys and girls from birth to adolescence. From a personal encounter with a family trying to raise their sons and daughter with identical influences to a series of observational experiments with a group of four to seven year olds, this film explores the social, physiological, neurological and genetic aspects of stereotypical sex typed behavior. WILD SWANS- JUNG CHANG 1994? 59 min. VC #3464 British Broadcasting Corporation Story of three generations of Chinese women, Jung Chang, her mother and grandmother, living during the turbulent transformation of China in the 20th century. WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES 1991 20 min. VC #2398 University of Toronto Uses manuscripts, woodcuts and illuminations to demonstrate women's participation in medieval society. Shows noble women exercising administrative authority, women as independent entrepreneurs, women as wives contributing to the family economy, and women in religious life. WORKING MOTHERS SERIES 1973 111 min. VC in process Ten short films to promote discussion about the contradictions in women's lives. Contents: It's not enough; Mothers are people; Luckily I need little sleep; Tiger on a tight leash; Would I ever like to work; And they lived happily ever after; Like the trees; They appreciate you more; Spring and fall of Nina Polanski; Our dear sisters.
ABORTION: FOR SURVIVAL 1989 30 min. VC #2016 On the Scene rovides factual evidence to support the position that access to safe legal abortions is essential for women's health worldwide. ABORTION: STORIES FROM THE NORTH AND SOUTH 1984 55 min. VC #1694 National Film Board of Canada Cross cultural survey of abortion practices that shows how policies have been determined by the church, state and medical establishment. THE ABUSED WOMAN: A SURVIVOR THERAPY APPROACH WITH DR. LENORE WALKER 1995 60 min. VC #0434 Newbridge Professional Programs Psychologist and expert witness, Lenore Walker demonstrates the course of therapy with a middle-class, 35 year old woman who has a history of childhood sexual abuse and battering by her current husband. AFTER DARWIN 100 min. 2000 VC #6087-6088 Galafilm Traces the history of genomic research and its dark offspring: behavioral genetics, eugenics, and the commodification of children. Spotlighting tropics including the Human Genome Project, gene patenting, cloning, fertility clinics, genetic testing and the discriminatory practices of insurance companies. BORN AT HOME 1993 50 min. VC #2999 National Film Board of Canada An Alberta family share in the joy and celebration of the midwife-assisted home birth of their child. Other women from across Canada reflect on the social and political obstacles they overcame in order to give birth at home. BORN IN THE USA 2000 56 min. VC #3911 Patchwork Productions Surveys childbirth in the United States, and the different choices women have, between hospitals, birthing centers and home births. BULIMIA 1987 28 min. VC #0153 Films for Humanities Phil Donahue hosts a discussion with medical personnel and bulimic patients about the reasons for this self-destructive form of weight control. They conclude women must learn to adjust to the limitations of their own bodies. A CHALLENGE TO CARE 1991 38 min. VC #3276 Vida Health Communications Deals with problems of substance abuse in pregnancy. Defines addiction, humanizes the substance abusing woman, and offers strategies to health providers and social workers who care for pregnant women and new mothers with chemical dependencies. CHANGES 1989 19 min. VC #1471 National Film Board Explores the physical and emotional changes associated with puberty. Includes such topics as menstruation, erections, masturbation and nocturnal emissions as well as acne, perspiration and public hair, and other changes experienced by preteens. CHANGING MINDS 1994 52 min. VC #3609 Reel Films Introduces a group of individuals successfully coping with mental illness or mental health problems, by exercising their right to make choices about their personal health care. THE CHILD THE STORK BROUGHT HOME 2000 59 min. VC #5949 Gillian Goslinga-Roy Portrait of a gestational surrogacy arrangement, from the embryo transfer to the birth. Reveals through interviews, doctor visits, the baby shower, the birth and its emotional aftermath, the ethical complexities of surrogacy. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS 1990 101 min. VC Feature Cynthia Scott Seven older women stranded at a deserted farmhouse turn a crisis into a magical time of humour and spirit. CRYING FOR HAPPINESS 1990 90 min. VC #0743-0744 Skyworks Examines the ethical dilemmas associated with psychiatric care by following the experiences of a group of older women who were treated for depression in a day program at Toronto's Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care. DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL: THE MORGENTALER AFFAIR 1984 59 min. VC #0087 National Film Board Docu-drama that details the sequence of events from 1970 to 1976 surrounding Dr. Henry Morgentaler's successful challenge in Quebec to Canada's abortion law. D.E.S., AN UNCERTAIN LEGACY 55 min. 1985 VC #4007 National Film Board of Canada A history and use of D.E.S., a synthetic hormone routinely administered to pregnant women to prevent miscarriage but which, many years after, produced harmful side effects to children born to the women who used the hormone. DIDN'T SHE DO WELL 1991 58 min. VC #5293 Valerie Walkerdine In a session at the Women's Therapy Centre in London, led by Pam Trevithick, five working class women, who have moved away from their origins, discuss issues of class, education, speech, and lifestyle, as well as their efforts to reconnect to their origins DOCTOR WOMAN: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ELIZABETH BAGSHAW 1978 29 min. VC #2071 National Film Board Focuses on the achievements of Elizabeth Bagshaw, one of Canada's first women doctors, who was instrumental in changing public opinion about the role of women in medical care and the need for birth control. DON'T TAKE MY SUNSHINE AWAY 1991 60 min. VC #1702 National Film Board Addresses the issue of elder care by presenting model support programs in Sweden, Denmark, England, the United States and Canada. DRUG BABIES 1993 30 min. VC #3277 Michael Colin Deals with the physical and emotional problems of children who have been prenatally exposed to drugs and/or alcohol. It addresses the problems of the mothers involved, and the social services, foster care, and the treatment available. DYING TO BE THIN 60 min. 2000 VC #5916 WGBH-TV Looks at the eating disorders anorexia nervosa and bulimia, current treatments, and the American obsession with thin women. Interviews health experts and models, ballet dancers, and other young women who are seeking recovery or have conquered their disease. EATING DISORDERS 25 min. 1986 VC #4248 American College of Physicians Explores the medical, social, and emotional factors associated with eating disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia, compulsive overeating, and obesity) and shows people working with their physicians to overcome destructive eating patterns. EATING DISORDERS: THE HUNGER WITHIN 1996 42 min. VC #4419 ABC News Profiles Peggy Claude-Pierre and the Montreux Counseling Center in Victoria, British Columbia which offers alternative treatment for anorexia and bulimia. EXPOSURE: ENVIRONMENTAL LINKS TO BREAST CANCER 1997 53 min. VC #4640 Butterfield and Zuckerman Explores the growing scientific evidence that radiation and toxins in the environment are linked to breast cancer. Organochlorines are the toxins linked to breast cancer, attracted to human fat cells, they can increase the body's production of estrogen, and may tamper with human reproduction. THE FACES OF AIDS 1992 21 min. VC #5065 Frances Reid The human experience of living with AIDS in Africa. FACING UP TO AIDS: SEX IN THE '90S 1989 30 min. VC #2073 British Broadcasting Corporation Individuals of varying ages and backgrounds comment on the impact of AIDS on their sexual behavior. THE FAMINE WITHIN 1990 120 min. VC #1296 and 1990 60 min. VC #3294 Kandor Focuses on North American women's preoccupation with thinness and the devastating effect it is having on their health and morale. Analysis by feminists suggest that the obsession with dieting is an unconscious protest against the denial of the feminine within women and men. FEAR OF FAT 1987 26 min. MP #6281 Churchill Film Addresses the issues of eating disorders, dieting, and the influence of the media on one's self-image through the experiences of five young women who describe their own erratic, life-threatening patterns of dieting. FEMINIST COUNSELLING STRATEGIES 1992 63 min. VC #2804 Malmo Productions Five abbreviated counselling sessions, designed to highlight three strategies commonly used by feminist counsellors to validate and empower women. Includes "getting started", socialization and devaluation issues, coping strategies and options, minority women's issues and "making changes". FEMINIST THERAPY 1994 41 min. VC #3546 Gene Broderson Laura S. Brown conducts a mock therapy session that encourages clients to discover the manner in which their authority in their lives has been taken from them and to reclaim that authority. GENE GENIE 1993 44 min. VC #3604 British Broadcasting Corporation Researchers can identify the human genes that cause disease and devise tests that will identify people at risk for genetically determined diseases. Using examples of testing for breast cancer, Fragile X syndrome and Huntington's chorea, shows that there are benefits, but also risks. GENETIC TAKEOVER 2000 52 min. VC #5647 National Film Board North America has been slow to react to the revolution in food production by which genetically ymodified plants are now present in 75% of processed foods. This revolution has occurred without consumer awareness or knowledge of potential risks despite vigorous condemnation from many scientists and farmers of the absence of independent, adequate testing. GIRLS IN ACTION: SPEAKING OUT 1997 15 min. VC #5474 Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. Stresses the importance of physical education as an important gateway for encouraging young women to develop the knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary for active, healthy living. THE HEALING POWER OF MOVEMENT 1990 39 min. VC #3909 National Library of Medicine Begins with a review of the history and development of dance therapy, and its goals: to enhance awareness of the body and its movements, to encourage interpersonal relationships, and to increase self-awareness. A HEALTHY BABY GIRL 1996 57 min. VC #4983 Helfand, Judith Presents the filmmaker's experience of coping with her own hysterectomy for cancer caused by her mother's use of D.E.S., a synthetic hormone administered to prevent miscarriage. HEALTHY MOTHER, HEALTHY BABY 1991 24 min. VC #2546 Gemini Describes the efforts of a Saskatchewan health care clinic to improve the health of low income mothers. HEAR WHAT WE ARE SAYING 1995 53 min. VC #4260 Fuad Chowdhury Through interviews, discussion and dramatization, this film analyses the current mental health system in Ontario and exposes the limits of western psychiatry and its application to women of colour. HOMEBIRTH: A NATURAL CHOICE 1994 22 min. VC #3618 Shebandowan/Kono Films Members of the Manitoba Homebirth Network describe their choice of home birth, and their experiences. Regular prenatal visits by a midwife and the involvement of the whole family are two of the strengths mentioned by women. HOT FLASH ON MENOPAUSE 1998 47 min. VC #4792 Heather Cook Discusses the changing attitudes among women and doctors to menopause, a natural phenomenon that has been increasingly medicalized. Gives both sides of the debate on hormone replacement therapy and its risks. IN THE PINK?: WOMEN AND WOMEN'S HEALTH CARE 1992 54 min. VC #3258 WLU Telecollege Traces the history of the experiences of women as both health-care providers (nurse and midwife) and health-care consumers. Increasingly, natural processes such as childbirth have been removed from the control of women and become medicalized. JUANA'S JOURNEY 24 min. 1999 VC #5547 Centro de Capacitacion Cinematografica Juana, an 18 year old former drug addict, tells her story of drug addiction and her flight from an abusive home to life on the mean streets of Mexico City. IT'S NOT EASY 1991 48 min. VC #5057 Federation of Uganda Employers and the Experiment in International Living/Uganda Dramatic representation of middle-class Africans and their struggle to deal with the realities and challenges posed when a married Ugandan business executive contracts HIV and passes the infection to his wife and unborn child. THE LAST TO KNOW 1981 43 min. MP #4173 New Day Films A portrayal of alcoholism and prescription drug abuse among women. Presents a historical account of how addiction to psychoactive drugs developed from the use of patent medicine. Depicts the way advertising helps to promote alcoholism. LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX 1995 30 min. VC #4826 Association of Reproductive Health Professionals Discusses the role of sex in the lives of adolescents; peer pressure; forms of contraception; learning how to say no. MAKING PERFECT BABIES 1992 51 min. VC #2747 National Film Board of Canada Considers the impact of genetic technology on human reproduction and raises questions about the social and economic forces behind the research. A MATTER OF FAT 1998 96 min. VC #5561-5562 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Explores the victimization of the fat child and the fat adult; the multi-billion dollar slimming industry; inappropriate diets and exercise; and extreme solutions employed by the morbidly fat. MENOPAUSE 1992 60 min. VC #2961 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Explores the myths and misconceptions about menopause and investigates alternative therapies. Features an interview with Germaine Greer. MIDWIVES ... LULLABIES ... AND MOTHER EARTH 1993 53 min. VC #3371 Bullfrog Films Feature Dr. Michel Odent, a pioneer of the natural birth movement. His work in designing intimate birthing rooms and giving mothers and midwives more status allows women to experience birth more fully. MY LEFT BREAST 57 min. 2000 VC #6009 Pope Productions An honest and straightforward picture of Newfoundland filmmaker Gerry Rogers as she undergoes treatment for breast cancer. OUR DAUGHTER'S PAIN 1995 44 min. VC #3970 Why Not Productions Documents female genital mutilation in Canada, from the perspective of women who have emigrated from cultures where female circumcision is practised. A PACK OF LIES: THE ADVERTISING OF TOBACCO 1992 35 min. VC #2890 Sut Jhally Expose of the advertising strategies of the tobacco industry, revealing the cynical and manipulative way in which the "pack of lies" is spread, and new generations of nicotine addicts are created. PASSING THE FLAME 1998 59 min. VC #5458 Lindalee Tracey Weaves together interviews, archives and haunting re-enactments in a tribute to the women and men who founded and worked at Toronto's Women's College Hospital. THE PILL 1999 45 min. VC #5122 National Film Board Documents the development, testing and marketing of the birth control pill. Reveals that women in Puerto Rico who first used the pill did not know they were involved in a clinical test and that side effects were downplayed. American Senate hearings led to patient information in each package, and inspired the women's health movement. PORTRAITS OF ANOREXIA 198- 25 min. MP #3969 Wendy Zheutlin Interviews with anorexics, current and recovered, show the expectations and relationships surrounding anorexia nervosa, a poorly understood eating disorder. PRE-NATAL DIAGNOSIS-TO BE OR NOT TO BE 1981 45 min. MP #3562 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Host David Suzuki shows the scientific techniques involved in prenatal diagnosis of genetic abnormalities, and examines the responsibilities and decisions facing both physicians and parents as they weigh the risks of the tests against the findings. RECOVERING BODIES: OVERCOMING EATING DISORDERS 1997 34 min. VC #4455 Katherine Sender The stories and testimonies of seven college students, both male and female, show the wide range of pressures that can lead to disordered eating, the variety of psychological and physical symptoms involved, as well as successful strategies for recovery. REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS 1988 20 min. VC #1791 National Geographic Describes the human reproductive process and follows the development of an embryo from conception to birth. REVIVING OPHELIA: SAVING THE SELVES OF ADOLESCENT GIRLS 1998 35 min. VC #5197 Media Education Foundation Mary Pipher discusses the challenges facing today's teenagers, especially girls, as well as the role of media and popular culture in shaping their identities. THE RIGHT TO CARE? 1991 60 min. VC #2332 Laura Sky Documents the developing militancy among Canadian nurses as they resist shifts in the health care system towards privatization and corporate agendas. RITES 1990 52 min. VC #2576 Channel 4 History of female circumcision and current efforts to stop the pratice. Suggests this type of female mutilation has been used not only to mark the transition of adolescents into adulthood but also to intimidate women. SEARCHING FOR HAWA'S SECRET 1999 47 min. VC #5427 National Film Board Dr. Frank Plummer's work on the immune systems of sex workers in a Nairobi shantytown identified a small percentage, like Hawa Chelangat, who did not become infected with the HIV. Tells of their unlikely partnership in a scientific quest for prevention rather than a cure. SEXUAL DISORDERS 1991 60 min. VC #2709 Annenberg/CPB Project Discusses a variety of sexual dysfunctions and sexual disorders (focusing on paraphilia, rape, gender dysphoria and desire, and arousal disorders) and addresses potential psychological, sociocultural, and biological causal factors as well as approaches to treatment. SHADOWS AND LIES: THE UNSEEN BATTLE OF EATING DISORDERS 1999 24 min. VC #1084 Windborne Productions Profiles four women who are working themselves free from the deadly grip of eating disorders, and from the overwhelming physical and psychological complications associated with these deadly diseases. SIDE BY SIDE: WOMEN AGAINST AIDS IN ZIMBABWE 1993 47 min. VC #3960 Canadian International Development Agency A social worker and a theater director/magazine editor each uses her skills to overcome the effects of AIDS. SLIM HOPES: ADVERTISING AND THE OBSESSION WITH THINNESS 1995 30 min. VC #0437 Jean Kilbourne llustrated lecture which explores the manner in which women are portrayed by advertising with the focus on thinness and the impact on female self image. SMOKE AND MIRRORS: A HISTORY OF DENIAL 1999 75 min. VC #5351 Torrie Rosenzweig Looks at the tobacco industry, its advertising strategies, and its attempts to deny the harmful effects of smoking. SOMETHING LIKE A WAR 1992 52 min. VC #3018 Deepa Dhanraj Examines the history, implementation and failures of India's Family Planning Program which was launched in 1952 in collaboration with Western population control experts. STILL SANE 1985 58 min. VC 3/4 #0852 Women in Focus Documents the ceramic sculpture exhibit Still Sane by Vancouver artists Persimmon Blackridge and Sheila Gilhooly. The exhibit grew out of Gilhooly's experiences in a mental hospital after she revealed to her psychiatrist that she was a lesbian. French language version also available. THE STERILIZATION OF LEILANI MUIR 1996 47 min. VC #4076 National Film Board of Canada Entwines Muir's personal search for justice with the background story of eugenics, a respected "science" during the early decades of the twentieth century. STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART: STORIES OF MOTHERS RECOVERING FROM ADDICTION 1991 28 min. VC #3275 Vida Health Communications Seven mothers speak about their past and about addiction, the disease they have in common. VICIOUS CIRCLES 1991 48 min. VC #2145 Yorkshire Television Health care workers in Pakistan explain the tragic repercussions of substituting infant formula for mother's milk as thousands of babies contract diarrhea from the mixture of powder with contaminated milk, and die. WANTED! DOCTOR ON HORSEBACK 1996 47 min. VC #4378 National Film Board Looks at the life of Dr. Mary Percy who left England for the wilds of northern Alberta in 1929 to become the first and only doctor in Canada's last homesteading area. WARRIOR MARKS 1993 54 min. VC #3283 Hauer Rawlence production Examines female genital mutilation in Africa. Includes interviews with victims, activists against female circumcision, and circumcizers. WHAT PEOPLE ARE CALLING PMS 1987 26 min. VC #0080 National Film Board Describes the range of premenstrual changes experienced by women and dispels the notion that they are symptomatic of illness. WHEN BREASTS ARE BAD FOR BUSINESS 1984 28 min. VC #0057 Baby Milk Action Committee Points out the high cost to developing countries of bottle or artificial feeding compared with breast feeding of infants. WHEN THE DAY COMES 1991 29 min. VC #2742 National Film Board The majority of elderly Canadians are taken care of by a family member, usually a wife, daughter or mother. This documentary profiles four women caregivers who constitute an important yet unofficial component of Canada's health care system. WHEN THE MIND FAILS 2000 59 min. VC #5648 TVOntario Four people who are or have been caring for relatives with Alzheimer's disease, talk candidly about their experiences, from first recognition of the signs of the disease to terminal care. WHO OWNS MY LIFE?: THE SUE RODRIGUEZ STORY 1994 50 min. VC #3637 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Documents the final year of Sue Rodriguez's life and her effort to secure legal recognition for assisted suicide. WOMEN AND AIDS 1991 55 min. VC #2734 Skol Corporation Documents the proceedings of a seminar where noted specialists in women's health care describe how health care workers can help prevent the spread of AIDS among their clients as well as provide humane treatment for the disease. WOMEN OF KERALA 1986 27 min. VC #0868 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Women in the densely populated state of Kerala in the southern tip of India have taken control of their own fertility, reducing the birthrate by 40%. WOMEN WITH OPEN EYES = FEMMES AUX YEUX OUVERTES 1993 50 min. VC #3617 Anne Laure Folly Outlines the social and economic condition of women in several countries of French-speaking Africa: Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Mali and Senegal. Deals with conditions that continue the subjection of women: female circumcision, forced marriage and forced remarriage of widows, and the impact of AIDS. THE YELLOW WALLPAPER 1989 75 min. VC Feature British Broadcasting Corporation An ambitious young doctor takes a large house in the country for the summer. His wife is thrilled until she sees their bedroom. It is a light airy attic, pleasant enough, except for the bars on the window and the most sinister wallpaper.
ABORTION: FOR SURVIVAL 1989 30 min. VC #2016 On the Scene Provides factual evidence to support the position that access to safe legal abortions is essential for women's health worldwide. ABORTION: STORIES FROM THE NORTH AND SOUTH 1984 55 min. VC #1694 National Film Board Cross cultural survey of abortion practices that shows how policies have been determined by the church, state and medical establishment. ANGELA: LIKE IT IS 1970 60 min. MP #4009 WABC-TV-NY The first half is an audio-taped interview with Angela Davis in prison in New York City after her arrest in December 1970 on charges of conspiracy to commit murder. The second half is a televised panel discussion among attorney Margaret Burnham, Joe Walker, editor of Mohammed Speaks and Charlene Mitchell, a leader of the Angela Davis Defense Committee. APPROPRIATE ACTIONS 1998 26 min. VC #4723 National Film Board Explores the definitions and issues of student-to-student sexual harassment, the legal and policy frameworks, and the process of addressing the issues and consequences of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN 1974 106 min. VC Feature Home use - no classroom rights John Korty The story of the long life of Miss Jane Pittman, who began her life as a slave in the South and who marched for her civil rights in the 20th century at the age of 110. BOUGHT & SOLD 1997 42 min. VC #4746 Global Survival Network An exposé of the traffic in women for prositution from the former Soviet republics. CITIZEN RUTH 1997 105 min. VC Feature Home use - no classroom rights Alexander Payne Ruth Stoops is pregnant and an unwitting object of a wacky tug-of-war that erupts when pro-lifers square off with pro-choicers and everyone goes to ridiculous extremes trying to claim her as a national symbol for their cause. COMING OUT UNDER FIRE 1994 71 min. VC #5675 Arthur Dong Gay men and lesbians who were in the United States military service during World War II discuss their experiences with the response of the military establishment towards their sexual orientation. THE CONVICTION 1994 92 min. VC Feature Home use - no classroom rights Marco Bellocchio When a man and a woman find themselves locked into a museum overnight, their companionship quickly escalates into a night of uncontrollable love-making. Sandra brings rape charges against Lorenzo after he reveals he has been holding the keys to the museum the whole time. CRIMES OF HONOUR 1999 44 min. VC #5017 Shelley Saywell Investigative look at the situation of Islamic women who if suspected of immoral behaviour are beaten, stoned, imprisoned and killed in order to "cleanse the family honour". DANGEROUS OFFENDER 1996 90 min. VC #4349 Holly Dale and Janis Cole The life of Marlene Moore. First incarcerated at the age of thirteen, at a sensational trial in the mid-80s she was branded Canada's most dangerous female offender. She ended her life at Kingston's Prison for Women at the age of thirty-one. DATE RAPE, HARSH REALITY 2000 22 min. VC #5708 Timeline Entertainment A dramatization of the rape of a university student by someone she trusted. Using recollections of both the victim and the rapist, illustrates how to avoid situations that can lead to rape. DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL: THE MORGENTALER AFFAIR 1984 59 min. VC #0087 National Film Board Docu-drama that details the sequence of events from 1970 - 1976 surrounding Dr. Henry Morgentaler's successful challenge in Quebec to Canada's abortion law. EFFI BRIEST 1992 135 min. VC Feature Rainer Werner Fassbinder Effi Briest is married to an older Prussian diplomat and taken to a remote Baltic port where she drifts into a brief, passionless affair with a local womanizer. The full effects are felt six years later in a chilling adaptation of the Prussian legal code. FOR OUR SISTERS, FOR OUR DAUGHTERS 1991 16 min. VC #3236 The Ad Hoc Committee of Women on the Constitution Discusses the major accomplishments that Canadian women have made in their quest for equality. GAME OVER: GENDER, RACE & VIOLENCE IN VIDEO GAMES 2000 41 min. VC #5877 Media Education Foundation Offers a dialogue about the complex and controversial topic of video game violence. It is designed to encourage high school and college students to think critically about the video games they play, instead of dismissing the technology as "harmless fun". HABITUAL SADNESS 1997 70 min. VC #5149 Byun Young-Joo During World War II an estimated 200,000 women, mostly Korean, were forced by the Japanese into sexual slavery. Now in their sixties and seventies, the surviving women have dared to speak of their suffering at the hands of their Japanese oppressors. IDA B. WELLS: A PASSION FOR JUSTICE 1989 55 min. VC #2111 William Greaves Examines the career of crusading journalist Ida B. Wells, a black American woman who fought at the turn of the century for civil rights, woman's suffrage, freedom of the press and anti-lynching laws. JANE, AN ABORTION SERVICE 1996 58 min. VC #5499 Kate Kirtz Profiles an abortion service which operated in Chicago during the late 1960s and early 1970s, when abortion was illegal. KEEP HER UNDER CONTROL: LAW'S PATRIARCHY IN INDIA 1998 52 min. VC #5386 Erin Moore. Documents a dispute resolution in a multi-caste village of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs. Discusses the Meos, a Muslim farming caste, and shows the paradox between a male ideology that demands the control of women and one woman's resistance to that agenda.. KINGSTON PRISON FOR WOMEN 1982 28 min. VC #0931 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Examines the issue of discrimination in the treatment of women prisoners through interviews with former inmates, correctional services staff, Canada's Solicitor General and Christine Jefferson, Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Frye Societies. THE LOST HONOR OF KATHARINA BLUM 1975 109 min. VC Feature Home use - no classroom rights Margarethe Von Trotta Systematic victimization of a proud young woman because she is suspected of aiding a terrorist. LOVE TAPS 1996 23 min. VC #5421 National Film Board of Canada Designed as a discussion-starter, this drama concerns teenagers, relationships and dating violence. A LOVE THAT KILLS 1998 20 min. VC in process Annie O'Donoghue Tells the tragic story of Monica, a nineteen-year-old woman who was murdered by her former boyfriend. Identifies the warning signs of partner abuse, especially in young people, and the damage it causes emotionally and physically. MARIANNE & JULIANE 1981 103 min. VC Feature Margarethe von Trotta Parallels the personal history of the Ensslin sisters: Gudrun (Marianne in the film) was imprisoned as a terrorist in the Stammheim prison, where she died, supposedly a suicide, in the fall of 1977 ; Christiane (Julianne in the film) worked for some time as an editor of a women's magazine, "Emma", and was determined to prove that her sister did not kill herself. LA MOITIÉ DU CIEL D'ALLAH = HALF OF ALLAH'S HEAVEN 1995 52 min. VC #4318 Djamila Sahraoui Algeria's women, after having participated in the fight for the liberation of their country, are today fighting for equality in their own society. NERIA 1992 103 min. VC Feature Godwin Mawuru Patrick and Neria built a comfortable home for their family in the city but after Patrick's sudden death, Neria finds her rights to it challenged by traditional village practices. NEVER TURN BACK: THE LIFE OF FANNIE LOU HAMER 1983 57 min. VC #5624 Rediscovery Productions Tribute to the nonviolent motivator in the civil rights movement. Includes an interview with her, comments from individuals who knew her or her work, and scenes of her galvanizing civil rights workers. OUT OF THE PAST: THE STRUGGLE FOR GAY AND LESBIAN RIGHTS IN AMERICA 65 min. 1997 VC #4997 Jeff Dupre History of the struggle for gay and lesbian civil rights. Includes five historical segments intercut with a story about teenagers at a Utah high school organizing a Gay-Straight Alliance, and their fight for their rights. A PLACE OF RAGE 1991 52 min. VC #2941 Pratibha Parmar Prominent black women comment upon experiences of Afro-American women, upon racial discrimination and its effects upon the American culture and make suggestions which they hope will improve the future. PRISON MOTHER, PRISON DAUGHTER 1986 88 min. VC #0240 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Looks at the situations and outcomes of two young women in the Kingston Women's penitentiary, one a long time repeat offender, the other a first-time offender. RAPE: A CRIME OF WAR 1996 60 min. VC #4221 National Film Board With the former Yugoslavia as a backdrop, this video exposes the hidden crime of rape in wartime. SAFE: INSIDE A BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER 2000 50 min. VC #5896 Brad Lichtenstein Presents the experiences of three women who sought to break the cycle of violence by seeking refuge at a safe house, a place providing sanctuary for physically abused mothers and their children. THE SEDUCTION OF MARY DAY 1996 30 min. VC #4272 Kathleen Cummins A historical melodrama set in mid-19th century Ontario. Tells the story of Mary Day O'Grogan, who, when left a young widow with two daughters after her husband is killed in a logging accident, must fight to keep her land and home. SEPARATE WAYS 1998 55 min. VC #4987 Jangles Productions Deals with divorce in the Ontario legal system, under six headings: dealing with emotions; impact on children; mediation; role of the lawyer; role of the court, and conclusion. THE STERILIZATION OF LEILANI MUIR 1996 47 min. VC #4076 North West Centre Entwines Muir's personal search for justice with the background story of eugenics, a respected "science" during the early decades of the twentieth century. STORY OF WOMEN 1990 110 min. VC Feature Home use - no classroom rights Claude Chabrol Recreation of a real-life criminal case, in which the life of a beautiful and childish woman is changed when she performs an abortion for a distraught neighbour during World War II.. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD 1998 39 min. VC #5203 Documentary Productions Profiles three women and the men who refused to let them go. Features expert advice from a personal security consultant, a senior police trainer who conducts seminars on criminal harassment, and a forensic psychiatrist who is an expert on stalking TRANSGENDER REVOLUTION 1998 50 min. VC #5728 Q-Ball A portrait of the people who choose to change their sexuality. Examines the movement to combat gender oppression, highlighting the nation's most notorious transsexual killings and a Congressional battle over including transsexuals in the Hate Crimes Act. TWICE CONDEMNED 1994 54 min. VC #3745 National Film Board of Canada Women inmates give an insider's view of life behind bars. The numbing routine of incarceration continues a legacy of pain and oppression that began in the earliest years. U.S.A. VERSUS TOKYO ROSE 1995 44 min. VC #4227 Antonio A. Montanari Ikuko Toguri, an American born Japanese, returned to Japan in 1941 to help an aunt. She got a job in Japanese broadcasting, in a unit run by Allied prisoners of war, to broadcast propaganda to American soldiers. After the war, she was prosecuted for treason, served six years of a ten-year sentence, and was pardoned by President Ford in 1977. THE VIENNA TRIBUNAL: WOMEN'S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS 1994 48 min. VC #3535 Augusta Productions Highlights the personal stories of women from around the world who testified before a panel of eminent judges at the Global Tribunal on Violations of Women's Human Rights. The women challenged world leaders at the U.N. World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna to finally "address these violations for the gross human rights violations that they are." WHEN WOMEN KILL 1994 48 min. VC #3215 National Film Board of Canada Three battered women who killed their abusers present their stories. Examines the court treatment of the "murderess" - past and present - and challenges the legal system to confront the systematic and widespread violence that men inflict on the home front. WHY WOMEN KILL 1992 50 min. VC #3322 British Broadcasting Corporation Each year, an estimated three to four million American women are physically and psychologically battered and abused by their partners. Tells the stories of battered women now behind bars for killing their abusers. WOMAN ON THE RUN : THE LAWRENCIA BEMBENEK STORY 1994 178 min. VC Feature Home use - no classroom rights Sandor Stern The true story of Lawrencia Bembenek - ex-model, ex-cop who was convicted of murdering her husband's ex-wife.
AGNES MACPHAIL, MP 1998 43 min. VC #5641 Great North Productions Story of the first woman elected to Canadian Parliament. Details Macphail's campaigns from 1921 to her defeat in the 1940, her stand for social justice, reform and women's rights, her roles in the CCF and the Canadian delegation to the League of Nations. ANGELA: LIKE IT IS 1970 60 min. MP #4009 WABC-TV-NY The first half is an audio-taped interview with Davis in prison in New York City after her arrest on charges of conspiracy to commit murder. The second half isa televised panel with attorney Margaret Mitchell, Joe Walker, editor of " Mohammed Speaks" and Charlene Mitchell, a leader of the Angela Davis Defence Committee. BEFORE STONEWALL 1984 87 min. VC #2863 Greta Schiller History of homosexuality in America from the 1920s through the 1960s. Shows how homosexuals and lesbians have progressed from isolation and oppression to the status of a visible and vocal minority group. BELL HOOKS: CULTURAL CRITICISM & TRANSFORMATION 1997 66 min. VC #4426 Media Education Foundation Hooks makes a compelling argument for the transformative power of cultural criticism. BEYOND BEIJING 1996 42 min. VC #4814 Shirini Heerah and Enrique Berrios Looks at attempts of the 1995 NGO Forum on Women in Huairou, and the UN's Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing to complete the platform document, and at individual NGO Forum projects, such as 'Women weaving the world together'. BEYOND BORDERS: ARAB FEMINISTS TALK ABOUT THEIR LIVES...EAST AND WEST 1999 49 min. VC #5364 National Film Board of Canada A delegation of Arab women activists, from Sudan, Algeria, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian territory tour the United States, to sensitize North Americans to Arab feminism and the effects of American foreign policy. BREAKING THE ICE: THE STORY OF MARY ANNE SHADD 1997 30 min. VC #4702 White Pine Pictures Recounts the years that Mary Ann Shadd, abolitionist and educator, spent in Canada. In Windsor, she taught black children but her ideal of integrated schools was opposed by Henry Bibb, local black leader and newspaper editor. CAMPAIGN 1975 30 min. MP #3091 Robert Fothergill The story of the 1975 provincial election campaign of Barbara Beardsley, New Democratic Party candidate in the Toronto riding of St. Andrew-St. Patrick. CHANDLER'S MILL 1991 29 min. MP #NFB 23F013 National Film Board of Canada Deals with working conditions in a New Brunswick factory circa 1889 and the efforts of one young teenage girl to better the lives of her friend and other workers on the eve of a public hearing of a Canadian Royal Commission on Capital and Labour. COUNTESS OF ABERDEEN 1997 20 min. VC #4727 National Film Board of Canada The life of Lady Aberdeen, who devoted herself to social reform and helped found both the National Council of Women of Canada and the Victorian Order of Nurses in Canada. DAUGHTERS OF DE BEAUVOIR 1989 60 min. VC #2134 Arts Council of Great Britain Assesses the influence of Simone de Beauvoir on the women's movement through interviews with individuals she influenced: Kate Millett, Marge Piercey, Eva Figes, and Ann Oakley. DAUGHTERS OF ABRAHAM SERIES: 1988 30 min. each Targacatch 1. FRONTIERS OF WAR VC #2240 Profiles Geula Cohen, a fervent zionist, who is a member of the Israeli Parliament and leader of a small political party. 2. A FIGHT TO SURVIVE? VC #2241 Profiles Tamar, a young Kibbutznik who is also an officer in the Israeli Defence Force, and Zoa, a young Palestian who lives under severe restrictions in her West Bank home. 3. STATELESS IN GAZA VC #2242 Profiles Mary Khass, a pacifist and a Quaker who organizes nursery schools in nine Palestian refugee camps of the Gaza Strip. DEMOCRACY A LA MAUDE 1997 61 min. VC #4771 National Film Board of Canada A study of Maud Barlow, head of the largest citizen's group in Canada, the Council of Canadians, Talks about her family background, the ideas and influences that led her to where she is, and the ideas of "corporate rule" that she fights against. DREAM OF A FREE COUNTRY: A MESSAGE FROM NICARAGUAN WOMEN 1983 60 min. MP #09D020-21 and #22E017-18 National Film Board of Canada Spoken testimony of the Nicaraguan women who fought in the revolution that overthrew the Somoza dictatorship in 1979. Under the new government, they reorganized their wartime association, AMNLAE, into a grass-roots organization to fight sexism. THE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT STORY 1965 90 min. VC Feature Describes her life from a childhood of shyness and rejection to becoming the First Lady. ECOFEMINISM NOW! 1996 37 min. VC #4981 Medusa Productions Using the context of the 1994 "Women and Ecology" conference, draws on interviews with activists and scholars to create a portrait of ecofeminism. EMMA GOLDMAN, THE ANARCHIST GUEST 2000 42 min. VC #0011 Romalis Productions Depicts the life and philosopies of Emma Goldman, an anarchist nicknamed "Red Emma" for her radical political views. Follows her tumultuous life from Russia to the United States and her eventual deportation from the U.S. because of her politics. Traces Goldman's journey to the Canadian home where she found exile in her later years. EVA PERON 1963 27 min. MP #3211 Wolper Traces the career of Eva Peron, an obscure actress, who rose to become wife of Argentine strong man President Juan Peron and one of the most powerful figures in Argentina until her death in 1952 at the age of 33. FIVE FEMINIST MINUTES 1990 110 min. VC #2157 National Film Board of Canada A collection of short films by Canadian women that display an awareness of the feminism of social injustice and everyday life. Contents: 1. Family Secrets by Lorna Boschman and Kim Blain; 2. New Shoes/ by Ann Marie Fleming; 3. Escapades of One Particular Mr. Noodel by Sook-Yin Lee; 4. A Letter From Violet by Elaine Pain; 5. Too Tough by Marie Annharte Baker; 6. No Choice by Christine Browne; 7. We're Talking Vulva by Shawna Dempsey and Tracy Tracger; 8. Exposure by Michelle Mohabeer 9. Prowling By Night by Gwendolyn; 10.Shaggie by Janis Cole; 11.Rhea by Angele Gagnon and Jennifer Kawaja; 12. Let's Rap by Alison Burns; 13. The Untitled Story by Cathy Quinn and Frances Leeming; 14. Petit drame dans la vie d'une femme by Andree Pelletier; 15. Minqon Minqon: Wosqutmn Elsonwagon (Reclaiming the Balance of Power) by Shirley Bear; 16. Come Into My Parlour by Mary Lewis. FLORA: SCENES FROM A LEADERSHIP CONVENTION 1977 59 min. MP # NFB 19A018-19 and VC #2475 National Film Board of Canada Follows Flora MacDonald as she unsuccessfully contests the leadership of the federal conservative party at its 1976 convention. THE FOURTH WORLD CONFERENCE ON WOMEN 1996 28 min. VC #4508 Off Center Video Women from Zimbabwe, Germany, Papua New Guinea, Iran, the Philippines, Israel, the Solomon Islands, and the United States in attendance at the Beijing Conference tell of the actions they are taking to address the problems of women in their countries and worldwide. FRAGMENTS OF A CONVERSATION LANGUAGE 1990 19 min. VC #1747 National Film Board of Canada Feminist writers from French and English discuss the absence of female reality in language. FURY FOR THE SOUND: THE WOMEN AT CLAYOQUOT 1997 86 min. VC #4804 Shelley Wine Recounts the events of the Clayoquot Sound Blockade, a protest against logging the last old growth temperate rain forest on Vancouver Island, in 1993. Women were in the majority among the protesters, and they tell their reasons for protesting and the impact of their actions. HIDDEN FACES 1990 52 min. VC #5999 Kim Longinotto/Clair Hunt with Safaa Fathay An expatriate Egyptian woman returns to her homeland to interview author and women's rights advocate, Nawal Sa'd'-awi. HOLDING OUR GROUND 1988 51 min. VC #1884 National Film Board of Canada Filipino women in the squatter community of Langon pressure the government for land reform, access to their own money lending system and shelters for street children. INDIGENI: NATIVE WOMEN 1994 25 min. VC #3498 CKVU/CanWest/Motion Visual PRoduction A four-part survey of the opinions of native women of British Columbia about aboriginal self-government and native women's roles in it. JULIA KRISTEVA 1992 39 min. VC #5826 Oxford Amnesty Lectures French feminist theorist Kristeva explains her theory of difference and its importance to literature, institutions of higher education, and politics. KATHLEEN SHANNON ON FILM, FEMINISM AND OTHER DREAMS 1997 50 min. VC #4623 National Film Board of Canada Shannon reflects on a lifetime of passionate involvement in political filmmaking. In 1974, she founded the NFB's Studio D, a place where women were free to make their own special brand of films. KEEPERS OF THE FIRE 1994 55 min. VC #3743 National Film Board of Canada Presents the stories of aboriginal women who have participated in important aboriginal struggles in Canada. Mohawk women tell of their role in the 1990 crisis at Oka. Haida women reminisce about their stand on the picket lines and their arrests in the anti-logging action on Lyell Island. Maliseet women recall their eight year campaign to change the Indian Act to accord status and rights to all Indian women. THE LADY FROM GREY COUNTY 1977 26 min. MP #3370 National Film Board Agnes Campbell MacPhail was Canada's first woman to be elected a member of Parliament in 1920. Traces her political life from 1920 to 1939. LESBIAN AVENGERS EAT FIRE TOO 1993 55 min. VC #4326 Janet Baus and Su Friedrich Documents the activities of the Lesbian Avengers, an activist group based in the New York City area who use marches, rallies and other methods to demonstrate for equal rights. LISTENING FOR SOMETHING: ADRIENNE RICH AND DIONNE BRAND IN CONVERSATION 1996 55 min. VC #2338 and #4162 National Film Board of Canada Rich, noted American feminist poet, and Dionne Brand, a Trinidadian-Canadian feminist poet, enter into a dialogue on citizenship, racism, exile, feminism, democracy and poetry. Each reads selected poems from her work that illustrate points in their conversation. A MATCH FOR LIFE 1998 27 min. VC #5452 Roland K. Pirker Five projects on which Match International is working with local women's groups: a shelter for battered women in Lima, Peru; a campaign against female genital mutilation in Mali; assisting rural women in Nepal get clean water for their village; in Zimbabwe, encouraging women to sp