Aceh Never-ending Tragedy
2004
This documentary features stories and testimonials from the women of Aceh, Indonesia. In 2001, Indonesian Military Forces led massacre in which nearly all men in their village were murdered.  Two years later, the women of Aceh tell their stories about loss, fear, and survival.  Living under conditions of war and poverty, the women of Aceh have become the sole providers for their families and struggle to work and care for their families under desperate conditions.

Activism, Feminism, Social Justice and Me
2003
(60 min)
Amy Richards and Jennifer Baumgardner, authors of  Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future give a special lecture for DU students. Addressing issues within Third Wave Feminism such as femininity and girl culture as well as activism, the authors encourage young women to become active in Third Wave Feminist movements.

Affirmative Action and Reaction
1996
27 min
This video is basically an episode of “Think Tank” with Ben Wattenberg. It is a discussion between Ben Wattenberg, and University of Pennsylvania law professor Lani Guiner, who was President Clinton’s nominee for assistant General for civil rights (The nomination was later rescinded because she was so controversial). This program focuses on Affirmative Action, and how it relates to blacks, whites, women, minorities, and majorities, etc. It is very informative, but the pace of the film is very slow.

Alice Walker
1994
35 min
The author of “The Color Purple” talks about what it is like to be a successful, black, woman writer. She talks about growing up poor in the south and how the civil rights movement changed her life. She talks about different things in her life that have affected her writings. Some of her books are discussed, and she reads excerpts from some of her work. A good film to understand what’s behind the mind that created the book ‘The Color Purple.”

And Still I Rise
1993
30 min
Inspired by a poem by Maya Angelou, this powerful film explores images of Black women in the media, focusing on the myths surrounding Black women's sexuality. Like "Color Adjustment", in which Marlon Riggs looked at images of Black people on television, "And Still I Rise" uses images from popular culture to reveal the way the media misrepresents Black women's sexuality. A combination of fear and fascination produces a stereotypical representation which in turn impacts on the real lives of Black women. "And Still I Rise" intercuts historical and media images with hard-hitting contemporary views of women of African heritage as they struggle to create a new and empowered perspective.
 

Anywhere But Fear: Aceh Martial Law
2004
This documentary chronicles the Martial Law imposed on Aceh, Indonesia.  From May 19, 2003 to May 19, 2004, filmmakers followed detainees and recorded life for the people of Aceh amidst the conflict between the Free Aceh Movement and Indonesian Military Forces.  As Indonesian Military Forces sweep through villages, members of the Free Aceh Movement are systematically imprisoned, tortured, and murdered.

At Issue NBC 9News 9/27/02
2002
(5 min)
This segment addresses weight discrimination, especially the hiring and firing of employees on the basis of their weight.  While weight is not a protected status under current civil rights statutes, such discrimination may be covered by the American with Disabilities Act.  This segment also features two DU Law professors, Jacqueline St. John and Jan Laitos as well as DU staff member Kimberly Wyatt.

Blind Justice: Women and the Law
1993
30 min
An animated movie in four parts, each showing different ways that the law deals with women. It starts in ancient Greece, and shows the beginnings of law. Then it moves to the sexism of tribunals and the courts. It shows a man getting away with the murder of his wife, and then how imprisonment changed the life of a young woman forever. It’s an interesting and sometimes disconcerting film, from a unique perspective dealing with important matters by cartoons.

Breasts: A Documentary
1996
50 min
What is it about breasts? Men's fascination with them. Women's obsession with them. This documentary seeks to answer that question as 22 women from ages 6 to 84 speak candidly about their attitudes towards breasts-their own and others. From a breast-feeding mother to a 420 pound comedienne; from a transsexual and a stripper-both with implants- to a 24 year old woman with a breast reduction; from two mother/daughter teams to two women with masectomies.

Dawn Beckhols, AIDS Awareness
1995
38 min
Dawn Beckhols starts the movie out by giving the straight facts about AIDS. She explains what happens medically, how it can be transmitted, and how it can be avoided. It’s very informative and eye opening even if you already know something about AIDS. Dawn tells her personal story of how she got AIDS including how she found out, how her family reacted, and what her life is like now. Her personal view helps put things into perspective for the viewer, so the point hits a little closer to home.
 

Dreamworlds 2: Desire, Sex, and Power in Music Video
1995
(55 min)
Dreamworlds 2 combines powerful imagery from some two hundred videos with incisive narrative to educate viewers on the impact of sexual imagery in music videos.  Dreamworlds 2 powerfully addresses the impact of pop culture on how young men and women see themselves (and each other) in terms of sexuality and gender. Shocking and often disturbing, Dreamworlds 2 allows its viewers to reflect critically on images which have such power precisely because they have become so common. By making their gendered messages clear, Dreamworlds 2 robs those images of their unchallenged power.

Dying to be Perfect—The Ellen Hart Pena Story
1996
2 hours, longer with commercials (taped from TV)
This film follows the life of Ellen Hart, an athlete with bulimia who married Frederico Pena, the Mayor of the City of Denver. She fought bulimia for over ten years, and managed to basically keep it a secret from her family and loved ones. It took almost losing her baby for her to realize the destructive effect bulimia was having on her life. This movie takes a personal lens regarding a public figure with bulimia. It is an interesting film whose main focus is Ellen Hart Pena with a perspective on her bout with bulimia. The film ends with a note from Tipper Gore and a television newscast talking to Ellen Hart Pena as well as the actress who played her in the movie.

Face Value: Perceptions of Beauty
1995
24 min
A very interesting look at perspectives of beauty, this film compares scientific evaluations of faces to what a panel of judges think is pretty. It looks at how American culture today perceives beauty –High cheekbones, large eyes, smaller chin and smooth skin. Using computers, the film analyses ideal beauty throughout the ages. A very interesting look at beauty- it provides cross-cultural viewpoints as well as viewpoints from both cultural and scientific standpoints.

Fighting for our Lives: Women Confronting AIDS
No date
29 min
Around 3 million women worldwide are infected with the AIDS virus. In the US, 70% of the reported cases of women with AIDS are women of color; many of those women are also in the low income bracket. This video shows women from San Francisco, CA to Washington, D.C. who are working to educate women about the AIDS virus, and working to help women who are already infected. It profiles women of many ethnic and cultural backgrounds, with an emphasis on African American Women.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1978
(96 min)
This memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that point to the dignity and courage of black men and women, Angelou paints a sometimes disquieting, but always affecting picture of the people--and the times--that touched her life.  Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever.

Image and Experience: Women Scientists in a Man’s World
No date
20 min
Rosalind Hunter-Anderson talks to a group of professional women with backgrounds in fields like engineering and anthropology. They discuss how the men who dominate their fields treat them, and what it is like to juggle having a career and raising a family. The movie also shows women anthropologists working in the field. Interesting to note there are no minority women represented in this film.

Iron Jawed Angels
2004
Katja von Garnier's "Iron Jawed Angels" tells the remarkable and little-known story of a group of passionate and dynamic young women, led by Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and her friend Lucy Burns (Frances O'Connor), who put their lives on the line to fight for American women's right to vote.

A Legacy of Caring: Early Colorado Jewish Women, 1860-1930
2004
31 min
This video, which examines the lives and work of Jewish women in Colorado, was created by the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society at the University of Denver.

Kate Chopin: Five Stories of an Hour
1992
26 min
This details five versions of Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour," about a woman’s reactions when she hears about the death of her husband in a train crash. There is a vignette, the story of her husband, and dramatizations. The same story repeated five times can get a little repetitive, but these are different enough to hold the viewer’s interest. All are based on the original story with a few minor variations.

Miss Universe in Peru
1986
32min
Subtitled/English
In 1982 the Miss Universe Pageant was held in Peru. This film compares and contrasts the lives of Peruvian women to those of the contestants in the pageant. The differences between the glamorous lives of the contestants and the squalor and inequality of the Peruvian women is glaring, and not soon forgettable. It also critiques multinational corporate interests, and the way they turn women into commodities, not people. “Miss Universe in Peru” is an interesting film, and though the footage is old the concepts still hold true today.

My Feminism
1997
25 min
Just what constitutes Feminism? This film will tell you. It embodies all aspects from sexual rights to equal pay and is put together in an entertaining and powerful fashion. Through interviews with some of today’s familiar feminist voices coupled with  related short images the video gets it’s point across – Feminism is alive, well, and not going anywhere.

Not for Ourselves Alone—The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (Just the preview)
Winter 1999
17 min
A short look at the suffragette movement, this movie previews a documentary by the same name. It discusses women’s fight to get the vote, and how important the suffragette movement is in American history. It offers biographies of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, and depicts their efforts in starting the women’s movement.

The Oprah Winfrey Show --  Baby Boomers vs. GenX: Second Wave vs. Third Wave Feminists
(45 min)
Oprah invites women to discuss the generational differences between Baby Boomers and women of GenX.  Inciting a major backlash discussion, many GenXers criticize second wave feminists for instilling unrealistic expectations, making everything “too political,” and especially for “ruining men.”  Baby Boomers respond with criticism of Gen Xers including their lack of gratitude, responsibility, ambition, and politics.  This show features such notable figures as:  Naomi Wolf, Amy Richards, Jennifer Baumgardner, Rebecca Walker, and Gloria Steinem.

Partners in Scholarship 7/2/98
1998
(10 min)
This promotional video profiles three students and the projects that they conducted in conjunction with DU’s Partners in Scholarship Program. Projects hail from disciplines ranging from theater to law issues to environmental science.  Exemplifying diverse scholarship, students engaged in a variety of topics including playwriting, gay rights, and social interactions among polar bears.  This program also explains how to get involved with DU’s Partners in Scholarship program.

Prose, Politics, and Power: Conversations with Muslim Women Leaders
1996
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Nine Muslim women from all over the world come together to discuss what life is like for a woman who is both a leader and a Muslim. Their jobs range from University Professors to Ambassadors. They talk about what it is like to live in a world where women are asked to cover themselves up, where women are treated as being less then men. They discuss their religion versus their freedom, and how they choose to live their lives.

Proud Alumni
2004
Proud Alumni, a film by Sheila Schroeder, DU Professor of Mass Communications and Journalism Studies, explores themes of rejection and emancipation as it ties personal discrimination to the intolerance and open bigotry of the Bush administration’s support of the Defense of Marriage Act. The film was inspired by the disappointment and rage she experienced when her alma mater refused to publish her same sex wedding announcement. The title, like the film, alludes to the filmmaker’s struggle to maintain pride in her various communities.

Push: A Women’s Western
1986
This film focuses on natural and home childbirth. Two interviews with midwives are highlighted, and the midwives are followed to the homes of women who have decided to give birth naturally. It discusses reasons why women might want to have a child at home, naturally, and gives some reasons why they may not want to. Fairly informative.

Sally Miller Gearhart: The Acquittal of Dame Rhetoric 9/23/99
1999
(60 min)
Sally Miller Gearhart presents a special lecture at CU Denver.  Professor emeritus at San Francisco State University, Gearhart is a well known writer, scholar, speaker, and activist.  Her presentation engages and critiques her 1976 “indictment” of the field of rhetoric as a violent masculinist paradigm.  Here she seeks to “acquit” rhetoric by critically redefining its meaning and moving from a perspective of persuasion to one of understanding.

Sarah Nelson:  Interview with Frederique Chevillot
1999
(40 min)
On September 28, 1999, current WSTU Director Frederique Chevillot conducted an interview and dialogue with influential WSTU director Sarah Nelson.  As part of WSTU’s 20^th anniversary celebration, this discussion addresses the inception of WSTU at DU.  Further, the interview consists of topics such as receiving the “call” to women’s studies, advice and wisdom for WSTU as well as generational differences and changes in the program throughout the years.

Science and Gender: Evelyn Fox Keller
1994
30 min
In a conversation with Bill Moyers, Evelyn Fox Keller talks about what it is like to be a woman and a scientist. She describes starting out in the 1950’s, and training to become a theoretical physicist. When she first started, it was a man's world and she was the intruder. She talks about how science is stereotyped as being a masculine discipline, and how the language of science reflects that.

Self image and Eating Disorder: a Mirror for the Heart
1996
24 min
A look at eating disorders and some of the factors believed to cause them. Women who have had and/or are recovering from eating disorders talk about how it started for them, and how they got on the road to recovery. This movie looks at an eating disorder support group that has people in all stages of recovery. A very informative film, great for people who don't really know anything about eating disorders.

Seneca Reflections: Celebrating 150 Years of Women’s Rights
1998
24 min
This movie looks back at the women’s rights convention of 1848 that was held in Seneca Falls, New York. Because it was the first Women’s Rights Convention, it is a very important event in the history of our nation. Now there is a National Women’s Rights Park in the spot where the convention was held. It’s very interesting to see and understand more about the history of Women’s Rights, and this video combines a historical perspective and a look at the modern Women’s Rights movement. It includes speakers such as Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sarah Roesch Wagner, Karen Staser and others.

The Vagina Monologues at DU
2002

The Vagina Monologues at DU
2003

The Vagina Monologues at DU
2004

Visionary Voices
1992
22 min
Visionary Voices features a multi-racial group of women activists, artists and healers reading excerpts from their interviews in a book of the same name about healthy uses of power. The simplicity of the form of this video enhances the complexity of views expressed by these remarkable women; an inspirational work about the contribution women of color have made to the women’s movement as well as how to teach without domination, organize without intimidation, disagree without degradation, relate without manipulation and practice compassion without losing focus or strength.

Winona LaDuke's Presentation at DU
 May 3, 2004

Women Facing War
2001
33 min
This video, produced by the International Committee of the Red Cross, examines how war has affected the lives of eleven different women from around the world. Countries documented include Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Colombia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Israel, Sierra Leone.

Women Like That
1991
25 min
This film is a continuation of “Women like Us.” It takes place one year after the original film and tries to find out how the original film affected the women’s lives and how they changed because of it. It is done in the same perspective as the first and posses the same charm.

Women Like Us
1990
49 min
"Women like Us" portrays conversations and interviews with older British women who are lesbians. By telling their stories they help to illustrate and chronicle the history of lesbianism. They talk about the social constraints of the 30’s and post war era, and how things have changed since then. This video enables one to learn more than s\he could from reading a textbook. Although the video was at times slow, it was also heartwarming and charming.

Women Vote 2004: The Margin of Victory
2004
40 min
Produced by Third Wave Television

Women's Solutions: Setting a National Agenda for the 21st Century
2000
120 min
This is the second part of a national teleconference on Women hosted by the University of Minnesota. It focuses on women in higher education. The movie highlights the 4 regional conference sites by showing what they are doing in order to bring more women in to higher education and to make them feel comfortable there.  It also shows some panel discussions and some interviews about the teleconference.

Women's Voices: Imagining Ourselves into the 21st Century
2000
120 min
This is the first part of a national teleconference on Women Hosted by the University of Minnesota. Hillary Clinton gives an opening statement, followed by a speech by Johnetta B. Cole. There is a focus on the higher education needs of women, and how the lack of things like female role models impact women in higher education. There is a panel discussion where things like access to education, representation in fields of study, and the general climate in the classroom are discussed. The panel includes grad students as well as professors and professionals talking about their higher education experiences and what they think needs to be done to make higher education a better place for women.

Working with Women in War
2001
11 min
This video documents how the ongoing work of the International Committee of the Red Cross benefits women affected by armed conflict, shown here in the areas of emergency relief distribution, support for families with missing relatives, protection, health care, and economic assistance.

      Women's Lives, Voices, Solutions Conference, "Women's Voices: Imaging Ourselves      
         into the 21st Century" Monday, March 27, 2000

          Women's Lives, Voices, Solutions Conference, "Women's Solutions: Setting a National
         Agenda for the 21st Century Wednesday, March 29, 2000

         DU Women's Conference: Voicing Unspoken Issues-4/26/01

         DU Women's Conference: Voicing Unspoken Issues-4/26/01 (II)

         Women's Conference Panel -4/12/02

         Women's Conference Keynote Speaker Robin Morgan-4/12/02

“Changing Roles of Students”
1976
Douvan, Elizabeth

“Discrimination Against Women”
1973
Gardner, Jo Ann Evans
Gardner has taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Chatham college and Carnegie-Mellon University, was on the national board of NOW and was the president of KNOW. On this tape she talks about women’s liberation and discrimination against women.

“The Myth of Male Privilege”
1977
Goldberg, Herb
Goldberg discusses his own personal experiences that led him to believe that the idea of this being a man’s world is a myth. He is the author of the book “The Hazards of Being Male” where he expresses his concern for the male plight and warns men that living up to the male sex role is destructive behavior.

“The Myth of Mental Illness”
Szasz, Thomas S.

“Rape: Crime of Violence”
1977
Rader, William C.
Rader did a documentary on rape for ABC; which received one of the highest ratings ever for prime time television at that time.

“Self Esteem and Changing Roles/ Part 1”
1975
Bardwick, Judith
In the first part of this interview Dr. Bardwick talks about the problems related to the previous knowledge of women and the confusion of roles and choices available to women. She outlines the effects of psychoanalytic thinking and the inherent beliefs about woman’s psychological make-up. She reviews the development of sense and the difficulties this creates for women.

“Self Esteem and Changing Roles/ Part 2”
1975
Bardwick, Judith
In the second part of this interview Dr. Bardwick discusses the feminist movement, and the problems and advantages it has created for women. She discusses the changing roles of both the males and the females, and the difficulties these changes bring about.