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Summary: A documentary that resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women's movement from 1966 to 1971.
Release Date: October 02, 2014
Runtime: 1 h 32 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 421,573
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Summary: Reaching far beyond Hollywood's hypersexualized femme fatales, the film candidly explores the modern American woman through intimate portraits encompassing issues of protection, power, feminism, and violence. A Girl and A Gun is a...
Runtime: 1 h 16 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 3,018
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Summary: The filmmaker retraces her grandmother's Auschwitz survival story and investigates how her life-long fight against intolerance can be passed on to new generations in the 21st century.
Runtime: 1 h 40 min

Language: English
Domestic: $ 2,784
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Summary: It is a new type of history show for a new type of audience: Big History delivered in an unadulterated hit of premium archive and jaw-dropping infographics.
Release Date: May 22, 2020
Runtime: 0 h 22 min
MPAA: TV-14

Language: English
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Summary: Fact or Fiction: The Life and Times of a Ping Pong Hustler is a chronicle of the final three years of Marty Reisman's life, a former international table tennis champion-turned-money player. Pursuing notoriety through his idiosyncr...
Release Date: August 01, 2014
Runtime: 1 h 00 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Distributor: Gravitas Ventures
Language: English
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Summary: Dame Penelope Keith visits England's picturesque villages to see how they're holding up in the 21st century. For the most part, she finds them quirky, resilient, and, well, picturesque.
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Genre: History
Runtime: 1 h 00 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Reef Television
Language: English
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Summary: Joyce Carol Oates has written over one hundred novels in a variety of genres over an award-winning career. Years of friendship and tireless research gave director Stig Björkman unprecedented access to the writer's solitude.
Runtime: 1 h 34 min

Production: Mantaray Film
Country: Sweden
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 9,812,600
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Summary: Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly leads an unexpected fight against the Equal Rights Amendment movement during the 1970s.
Release Date: April 15, 2020
Runtime: 0 h 51 min
MPAA: TV-MA

Country: United States
Language: English
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Summary: The life of pioneering singer Chavela Vargas, from her birth in Costa Rica in 1919 to her death in Mexico in 2012.
Runtime: 1 h 33 min
MPAA: Unrated

Production: Aubin Pictures
Language: Spanish
Domestic: $ 148,666
International: $ 124,176
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Summary: In the last store in a defunct shopping mall, 91-year-old Sonia Warshawski - great-grandmother, businesswoman, and Holocaust survivor - runs the tailor shop she's owned for more than thirty years. But when she's served an eviction...
Runtime: 1 h 33 min

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 500,000
Domestic: $ 212,471
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Summary: Feride became orphaned as a child and is forced to attend a boarding school while also visiting her aunt during breaks and vacations. During this time she has fallen in love with her charming older cousin Kamran.
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Runtime: 2 h 00 min

Production: TIMS Productions
Country: Turkey
Language: Turkish
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Summary: Four interviews done in the 1970s with women who survived the Holocaust.
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Runtime: 4 h 33 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: France
Language: French
Domestic: $ 7,323
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Summary: After the Japanese invasion of Singapore in February 1942, a group of British, Dutch and Australian women are held in a Japanese internment camp on a Japanese-occupied island between Singapore and Australia.
Release Date: October 22, 1981
Genres: Drama, History, War
Runtime: 0 h 50 min

Language: English
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Summary: A group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II use music to relieve their misery.
Runtime: 2 h 02 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 16,000,000
Domestic: $ 2,007,100
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Summary: Chronicles the lives of a group of midwives living in East London in the late 1950s to late 1960s.
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Genres: Drama, History
Runtime: 1 h 00 min
MPAA: TV-PG

Language: English
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Summary: Chronicle the marriage of the Qing China emperor Qianlong and the step empress Ru Yi, lady Ulanara.
Release Date: August 20, 2018
Genres: Drama, History

Country: China
Language: Chinese
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Summary: The true story of 13 totally normal young women who suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made-up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s. Despite their innocence, the 13 were soon execu...
Runtime: 2 h 09 min

Countries: Spain, Italy
Language: Spanish
Movie budget: $ 9,000,000
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Summary: The first abstract artist was a woman, misjudged and concealed, Hilma Klint rocks the art world with her mind-blowing oeuvre.
Runtime: 1 h 34 min

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Summary: The trailblazing late photographer Helmut Newton had a defining impact on the worlds of fashion and art.
Runtime: 1 h 33 min
MPAA: Unrated

Country: Germany
Language: English
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Summary: A story set in nineteenth-century China and focusing on the life-long friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid social norms imposed on women.
Runtime: 2 h 00 min
MPAA: PG-13

Countries: China, United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 6,000,000
Domestic: $ 1,348,205
International: $ 10,000,000