All Guides: Women's History Month: DVDs &amp; Streaming Media

Academic Video Online: AVON

Academic Video Online: AVON is a collection of over 70,000 streaming videos spanning a wide range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.

Docuseek2

Docuseek2 is a collection of streaming documentary films from leading educational distributors.

Selected DVDs

I was a Teenage Feminist
Armed with a video camera and an irreverent sense of humor, filmmaker Therese Shechter sets out on a quest to find out whether feminism can still be a source of personal and political power.
Iron Jawed Angels
The dramatized story of Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, leaders of the suffragist women who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment.
The Pill
"Featuring personal accounts from the first generation of women to have access to the pill, this film shows how harnessing female hormones into a little pill unleashed a social revolution unlike any other in our history."
Standing on My Sisters' Shoulders
This documentary tells the story of the three Mississippi women in 1965, who walked into the US House of Representatives in Washington D.C.to seek their civil rights.

Selected Streaming Videos

Althea
The story of Althea Gibson (1927-2003), who overcame the highly segregated tennis world of the 1950s and became the first African American to play and win at Wimbledon and the U.S. Nationals.
Black Feminist
Feature-length documentary film surrounding the racial and gender oppression that black women face in America. This documentary is told through interviews from scholars, lecturers, writers, business owners, veterans, comedians and authors.
Dolores
The story of labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta whose work led to the creation of the United Farm Workers of America.
The Fight for Women's Rights
Interviews with two women who forged the path for equal rights, including one of the first female commercial pilots and an Equal Rights Amendment activist.
Madame Mars: Women and the Quest for Worlds Beyond
This film tells the story of the role women have played in the exploration of Mars.
Great Speeches: Today's Women
Each speech is prefaced by a biographical narration providing historical context, significance and the rhetorical devices found in each speech.
RBG
Documentary film exploring the life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The Vote
PBS documentary on the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history.