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Equality is a short film by American filmmaker, Al Sutton, MD, [1] a documentary under the genre of human rights, social issues, history and news.The film contains rare footage [2] of the Women's Strike for Equality, the gender equality protest of August 26, 1970, [3] where more than fifty thousand women and men gathered in New York City to show support for the feminist movement and to ...
For American women, our careless amnesia is plain poison and Lee's film is a healthy portion of the antidote". Adding that the history of second-wave feminism is "beautifully laid out in Lee's film". [13] The film has also been reviewed by Ms. magazine blog, [4] Psychology Today blog, [14] and by the University of Texas' Mercury. [7]
I Am Somebody is a 1970 short political documentary by Madeline Anderson about black hospital workers on strike in Charleston, South Carolina. This was the first half-hour documentary film by an African-American woman in the film industry union. [1] This film is one of the first to link black women and the fight for civil rights. [2]
Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century, growing out of the anti-slavery movement, and the second, in the 1960s and 1970s. Women have made great ...
[7] [8] It describes how the women's movement linked to other movements in the United States such as the civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, and the New Left. [9] Also featured in the documentary are the authors of the landmark feminist book Our Bodies, Ourselves and ex-members of the underground abortion organization the Jane ...
Growing Up Female is a 1971 American documentary film directed by Julia Reichert and Jim Klein. The film focuses on the socialization of American women and the effects of stereotypes placed by media, advertising, and personal relationships while following the lives of five young women and girls.
In August 1971, more than 100,000 football fans packed Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium for a historic tournament. Teams from England, France, Denmark, Argentina and Italy flew in for 21 days of ...
Montgomery to Memphis is a 1970 American documentary film biography of Martin Luther King Jr. and his creation and leadership of the nonviolent campaign for civil rights and social and economic justice in the Civil Rights Movement.