Women in cinema - NFB

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Know Your History! A curated selection of films about women.

A Part of Me

André Roy
2016 | 23 min
Buying Sex

Teresa MacInnes & Kent Nason
2013 | 1 h 15 min
Stories We Tell

Sarah Polley
2012 | 1 h 48 min
Payback

Jennifer Baichwal
2011 | 1 h 26 min
Show Girls

Meilan Lam
1998 | 52 min
By Woman's Hand

Pepita Ferrari
1994 | 58 min
To my birthmother...

Beverly Shaffer
2002 | 54 min
Wanted! Doctor on Horseback

Claire Helman
1996 | 48 min
Mother of Many Children

Alanis Obomsawin
1977 | 57 min
Beyond December 6

Catherine Fol
1991 | 28 min
Our Dear Sisters

Kathleen Shannon
1975 | 14 min
Help!

Noémie Payant-Hébert
2016 | 5 min
Notes for a Film About Donna & Gail

Don Owen
1966 | 48 min
The Housewife

Cathy Bennett
1975 | 6 min
Under Wraps

Teresa MacInnes
1998 | 55 min
A Mother and Daughter on Abortion

Gail Singer
1987 | 12 min
Rock the Box

Katherine Monk
2015 | 10 min
Chi

Anne Wheeler
2013 | 59 min
Little Big Girls

Hélène Choquette
2014 | 52 min
Absences

Carole Laganière
2013 | 1 h 14 min
Who Cares

Rosie Dransfeld
2012 | 1 h 19 min
Status Quo? The Unfinished Business of Feminism in Canada

Karen Cho
2012 | 1 h 27 min
Bone Wind Fire

Jill Sharpe
2011 | 30 min
Kim Campbell Through the Looking Glass

Michel Jones
2000 | 1 h 10 min
Women on the March

Douglas Tunstell
1958 | 58 min
Heartbeats

Dorothy Todd Hénaut
1992 | 20 min
Flora: Scenes from a Leadership Convention

Peter Raymont
1977 | 58 min
Shooting Stars

Allan Stein
1987 | 49 min
Why Women Run

Meredith Ralston
1999 | 46 min
Motherland: Tales of Wonder

Helene Klodawsky
1994 | 1 h 29 min
The Petticoat Expeditions, Part Three: Countess of Aberdeen

Pepita Ferrari
1997 | 20 min
The Petticoat Expeditions, Part Two: Frances Hopkins

Pepita Ferrari
1997 | 19 min
The Petticoat Expeditions, Part One: Anna Jameson

Pepita Ferrari
1997 | 23 min
To the Ladies

1946 | 9 min
Rosies of the North

Kelly Saxberg
1999 | 46 min
Patricia's Moving Picture

Bonnie Sherr Klein
1978 | 25 min
Goddess Remembered

Donna Read
1989 | 54 min
Women on Patrol

Barry Lank
2004 | 54 min
Some Kind of Arrangement

Ali Kazimi
1998 | 45 min
The Colour of Beauty

Elizabeth St. Philip
2010 | 17 min
Me and the Mosque

Zarqa Nawaz
2005 | 52 min
For Angela

Nancy Trites Botkin & Daniel Prouty
1993 | 24 min
My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts

Torill Kove
1999 | 10 min
Flamenco at 5:15

Cynthia Scott
1983 | 29 min
If You Love This Planet

Terre Nash
1982 | 25 min
Margaret Atwood: Once in August

Michael Rubbo
1984 | 57 min
Augusta

Anne Wheeler
1976 | 16 min
Baseball Girls

Lois Siegel
1995 | 1 h 20 min
A Sunday at 105

Daniel Léger
2007 | 13 min
The Burning Times

Donna Read
1990 | 56 min
Mabel's Saga

JoDee Samuelson
2004 | 15 min
The Company of Strangers

Cynthia Scott
1990 | 1 h 41 min
Finding Dawn

Christine Welsh
2006 | 1 h 13 min
Toward Intimacy

Debbie McGee
1992 | 1 h 1 min
No Way! Not Me

Ariadna Ochrymovych
1987 | 29 min