The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman
Preeminent female Victorian Age intellectual collaborates with Transcendentalists Emerson and Thoreau, educates Boston Brahmins and incarcerated women in classic literature. A brilliant and brash soci…
"Dishonored Lady" (1947) stars Hedy Lamarr as a woman trying to escape her scandalous past in this gripping film noir. Directed by Robert Stevenson, the film explores themes of redemption, identity, a…
This documentary chronicles the life and career of Maine’s Margaret Chase Smith, a pioneering political figure and the first woman ever to be elected to both chambers of the United States Congress.
Braden was hailed by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his 1963 Letter from Birmingham Jail as a white Southerner whose rejection of her segregationist upbringing waseloquent and prophetic.
There's a killer in paradise!
The story is based on a stageplay which was in turn based on the actual diary of Anne Frank, whose family went into hiding in Nazi-occupied Holland in 1942, sharing a very small space with several oth…
A meek governess and her mysterious employer strike up a romantic relationship.
A young blind woman struggles for independence.
An American woman is terrorized by the ravages of war and a lecherous Prussian lieutenant when she becomes a Red Cross nurse overseas during the Great War.
Nora Mason becomes entangled in a family mix-up of murder and scandal that threatens to ruin her career and entire future; Unless the mother she does not know can find a way to save her.
A black voodoo priestess with a mixed race daughter seeks revenge on the white plantation owner whom she blames for the death of her husband.
Fugitive murder witness’s estranged wife hunts him through noirish San Francisco.
A lonely widow hires a young woman as her companion. What she doesn't know is that the woman and her boyfriend are extortionists, who are planning on making her their next victim, then killing her whe…
Covering nearly fifty years of mid-19th-century turmoil, from the tumultuous Texas Revolution to the early women's suffrage movement, "True Women" is a gripping tale of endurance, love, and above all,…
A wealthy debutante becomes an impassioned activist and spirals into the radical underground movement of the 1960s and 70s.
In response to a call from God, Florence dedicated her life to helping the sick – unheard of in Victorian England.
A jealous wife, bohemian neighbour and missing woman tangle in screwball suburbia.
A woman goes to prison for murder. After being released back into society, she tries to create a new life for her and her now-nine-year-old daughter. But her dark past comes back to haunt her and thre…
In 17th-century Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing an out-of-wedlock daughter.
The original Funk Queen and one time wife of jazz legend Miles Davis, took on the American establishment of the 1970s and changed the course of women in music forever. Despite being banned and boycott…
Jenny Gray (Cathryn Harrison) is a country girl who dreams of becoming a show jumper. But her father (Lloyd Cunnington) is embittered by the death of his wife in a riding accident, and so it's against…
Margaret Thatcher rose from being a grocer's daughter to overcoming the sexist biases of the 1970s, ultimately becoming the United Kingdom's first female Prime Minister in 1979.
In this inspiring and intimate documentary, Lillian Carter's progressive views on race are shaped by her life as a nurse in the rural South and profoundly influence her son, President Jimmy Carter.
Ann Shelby, whose family is allied with the notorious William Quantrill, turns outlaw to revenge herself on a renegade Indian who killed her brother.