Featured Items

Exercising reproductive rights is the focus of these films.

The Abortion Hotline

Director
López Escrivá, Fernando
Description
Mafe, a young activist, risks her life to run an underground hotline in Chile that informs callers about a pill that can induce abortions. The hotline's fate is uncertain after Michelle Bachalet is elected president in 2013 after pledging to loosen abortion laws.
Year
2016

Jackson

Director
Crow, Maisie
Description
Focuses on reproductive rights in Mississippi, its last abortion clinic, its providers, and four women who are treated there.
Year
2016

Vessel

Director
Whitten, Diana
Description
Follows Dr. Rebecca Gomperts of Women on Waves—a Netherlands-based organization that provides abortions in international waters and counsels women around the world about pill-induced abortions—on trips to Ireland, Poland, and Portugal and on grass-roots campaigns about safe abortions.
Year
2015

The Abortion Divide

Director
Leiter, Elizabeth
Description
In 1983 a documentary team from the PBS television series Frontline visited Chester, Pennsylvania, to examine attitudes toward abortion. Filmmaker Mark Obenhaus returned to the Philadelphia Women's Center in 2019 to interview current patients, health care providers, and protesters.
Year
2019

Trapped

Director
Porter, Dawn
Description
Follows workers in U.S. abortion clinics and lawyers who struggle to keep abortion safe as states impose targeted regulation of abortion providers (better know as TRAP laws).
Year
2016

The Purity Myth: The Virginity Movement's War against Women

Director
Earp, Jeremy
Description
Feminist Jessica Valenti presents material from her book documenting the failure of abstinence-only sex education in preventing teen pregnancies and outlines the links between support of abstinence and so-called purity movements and opposition to feminism and reproductive rights in U.S. conservative politics.
Year
2011

After Tiller

Director
Shane, Martha; Wilson, Lana
Description
Follows the only four physicians in the United States who perform third-trimester abortions, all trained by Dr. George Tiller, who was murdered by an anti-choice terrorist in 2009.
Year
2013

Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave

Director
Kluge, Alexander
Description
Cast includes Ursula Birichs, Franz Bronski, Traugott Buhre, Alfred Edel, Sylvia Gartmann, and Alexandra Kluge.
A young German housewife and mother, who performs abortions part-time to support her family, becomes a labor activist at a factory.
Year
2010

Abortion, Morality, and the Liberation of Women

Description
August 2009 discussion between Susan Wicklund, author of This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Provider, and Sunsara Taylor, a writer for Revolution newspaper.
Year
2010