Celebrate Women's History Month with the Libraries Multimedia Department

Kelsey Lovewell

In celebration of Women's History Month, the University Libraries Multimedia Department has compiled a list of streaming videos available to all students, staff and faculty. Physical items are also available on display in the Multimedia Department, located in the Mullins Library Hodges Reading Room. 

Movies

In On the Basis of Sex, young wife, mother and lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg battles the U.S. Supreme Court for gender equality and women's rights. She works with the American Civil Liberties Union to argue cases on behalf of both men and women, demonstrating that discrimination "on the basis of sex" is unconstitutional. 

A League of Their Own takes a look at the first women's professional baseball league, set during World War II, and focuses on the rivalry between sisters.

The Passion of Joan of Arc tells the tale of a young maiden who died for God and France. 

Documentaries  

Rise of the Wahine: Champions of Title IX is the winner of the Hawaii International Film Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary and is both rich in women's history and inspiring for all who desire to transform the world around them. 

Rosa Parks: The Path to Freedom is a biography of the Civil Rights leader who would not give up her bus seat. 

Women's Suffrage documents the history of American women's fight for the right to vote. It covers milestones including Elizabeth Cady Stanton's convention in Seneca Falls, Susan B. Anthony's arrest in 1873 when she tried to vote, the creation of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1890, Jeannette Rankin's election to Congress in 1916 and the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920. 

Indira Gandhi is about the career of Indira Gandhi. 

Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde paints a portrait of the award-winning Black, lesbian, poet, mother, teacher and activist Audre Lorde.

Jane Austen provides a look into the life and inspiration behind Austen's writing. 

What 80 Million Women Want is a silent film on the women's suffrage movement that includes appearances by equal rights crusaders Emmeline Pankhurst and Harriet Stanton Blatch. 

Extraordinary Women is a compilation of 12 different videos about extraordinary women throughout history. 

Streaming Databases

Check out the streaming databases Kanopy Streaming Services and AVON: Academic Video Online to find more Women's History Month films.