Documentaries/Women's Issues

Abortion: For Survival
Shows how the denial of abortion affects not only women's lives in the United States but also in the third world countries.

AIDS--Allie's Story
Presents the story of Allison Gertz, who was neither promiscuous nor an IV drug user, but became a victim of AIDS after spending a night with a bartender she had known for years. Introduces a model program for peer group counseling now in place at the University of California at Berkeley, where students come together to explore issues of sexuality.

Anne Frank Remembered
The video features vintage newsreels, photographs and even rare home movie to look beyond the celebrated pages of Anne's diary.

Behind the Veil: Nuns
Addresses the concern of Catholic nuns existing within a paternalistic church hierarchy. Looks to christianity's past to review women's religious status and shows the role played by modern nuns.

Breaking the Silence Working Toward Equity and Effectiveness in College Teaching
Describes the importance of college faculty reaching and using teaching methods to improve instruction for minority female, and handicapped students.

Club Connect: AIDS Fighters
This show features poignant stories about teens on the front lines of the fight agains AIDS. Viewers meet Krista Blake, a girl who contracted HIV when she was sixteen. Another story features a group of teens giving peer counseling on AIDS awareness.

Georgia O'Keeffe
Explores the life and work of Georgia O'Keeffe.

Kids
A deeply affecting, no-holds-barred landscape of words and images, depicting with raw honesty the experiences, attitudes and uncertainties of innocence lost. Several young girls in their early teens gets AIDS when they cohersively lose their virginity from the same kid although he is unaware that he is infected.

Mi Vida Loca/ My Crazy Life
This is Allison Anders' episodic look at the lives of Chicana gangs in the Echo Park area of Los Angelas and it captures both the vibrancy of the culture and the violence and despair that trap them in a particularly grim variation of patriarchal dominance.

Recovering Bodies: Overcoming Eating Disorders
Focuses not simply on people's problems with food, but on the renewed hope for a healthy life that the process of recovery can provide. Presents the stories and testimonies of seven college students, showing the wide range of pressures that can lead to disordered eating. Discusses the psychological and physical symptoms of eating disorders.

Slim Hopes: Advertising and the Obsession with Thinness
Explores the manner in which women are portrayed by advertising with the focus on thinness. Discusses the impact this portrayal has on the self images of women and girls.

Sylvia Plath
Situations from the life of Sylvia Plath, with recitations from her poetry.

Warrior Marks
Documentary about female genital mutilation in Africa. Includes interviews with victims, activists against female circumcision, and circumsizers.