Moa Martinson - Mother of the Country

Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how one tiny comment against President Bush dropped their number one hit off the charts and caused fans to hate them, destroy their CD’s, and protest at their concerts. A film about freedom of speech gone out of control and the three girls l...

Runtime

1h 33m

Director

Cecilia Peck, Barbara Kopple

Cast

Natalie Maines, Emily Strayer, Martie Maguire

The compelling story of an extraordinary woman's journey from her birth in a paper thin shack in the cotton fields of Georgia to her recognition as a key writer of the twentieth Century.Walker made history as the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple.

Runtime

1h 24m

Director

Pratibha Parmar

Cast

Alice Walker, Danny Glover, Steven Spielberg

A journey back through Dacia Maraini's and her trips around the world with her close friends cinema director Pier Paolo Pasolini and opera singer Maria Callas. An in-depth story of this fascinating woman's life. Maraini's memories come alive through personal photographs taken on the road as well as her own Super 8 films shot almost thi...

Runtime

1h 14m

Director

Irish Braschi

Cast

Maria Pia Di Meo, Dacia Maraini, Alberto Moravia

An intimate study of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century tracking feminist icon Susan Sontag’s seminal, life-changing moments through archival materials, accounts from friends, family, colleagues, and lovers, as well as her own words, as read by Patricia Clarkson.

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

Nancy D. Kates

Cast

Susan Sontag, Patricia Clarkson, Noël Burch

A documentary that resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women's movement from 1966 to 1971.

Runtime

1h 27m

Director

Mary Dore