Celebrate Women's History Month With the Mullins Library Multimedia Department

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In celebration of Women's History Month, the Mullins Library Multimedia Services Department has compiled a list of streaming videos available to all students, staff and faculty. Physical items are also available on display in MULN 463. 

Movies 

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. 

North Country is the true story of a single mother who filed a sexual harassment suit against the owners of the iron mine where she worked in the 1980s. 

A League of Their Own takes a look at the first women's professional baseball league during World War II. 

The Passion of Joan of Arc tells the story of the 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. It is rich in women's history and inspiring for all who desire to transform the world around them. 

Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period. 

Warrior Queen Boudica's story has been recorded by Roman historians, pondered by scholars and examined by archaeologists who continue to dig for clues about the warrior queen who led a rebellion that changed the course of history. 

Rosa Parks: The Path to Freedom is a documentary about the dynamic but quiet woman whose demand for her civil rights led to the social changes of the sixties. 

Women's Suffrage is a documentary about the history of American women's fight for the right to vote. Covers milestones including Elizabeth Cady Stanton's convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848; Susan B. Anthony's arrest in 1873 when she tried to vote; the creation of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1890; the election to Congress in 1916 of Jeannette Rankin from Montana; and finally the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920. 

Indira Gandhi is about the career of India's first and only female prime minister who was assassinated in 1984. 

The Genius Of Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit Up The World tells the story of the first woman to be awarded a Nobel prize, Marie Curie. In her lifetime, she became a celebrity scientist, attracting the attention of the news cameras and tabloid gossip, fascinated by a woman winning prestigious awards and making groundbreaking discoveries. 

Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde paints a portrait of the award-winning Black, lesbian, poet, mother, teacher and activist whose writings articulated some of the most important social and political visions of the century. 

Jane Austen's life spanned the dramatic years of the Napoleonic Wars, but her quiet family life in Hampshire and the fashionable society of Bath most influenced her writing. 

The women's suffrage movement inspired the silent film What 80 Million Women Want, which includes appearances by equal rights crusaders Emmeline Pankhurst and Harriet Stanton Blatch. 

Extraordinary Women is a collection of 12 videos about women throughout history.