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Women's History Videos and DVDs

Adventure & Travel | Arts | Drama & Entertainment | Health | History, North American | History, World | Labor & Employment | Music | Politics & Social Justice | Sciences | Social Issues | Sports/Exercise | Writers | Women around the World

ADVENTURE & TRAVEL

• Alaska's great race the Susan Butcher story
• Amelia Earhart (PBS-American Experience)
• Amelia Earhart queen of the air (A&E)
• Around the World in 72 Days (re Nellie Bly)
• Around the World in 72 Days: the Audacious Adventures of Nelly Bly (DVD)
• World without walls: Beryl Markham's African memoirs

ARTS

• Audrey Handler, glass artist
• Behind the Scenes with Julie Taymor
• Ethel Kvalheim: rosemaler
• Frida Kahlo: 1910-1954
• Georgia O'Keeffe
• Gods of beauty a portrait of the visionary {Madison} artist Mona Boulware Webb
• Great Women Artists: v. 1, Mary Cassatt
• Great Women Artists: v. 2, Frida Kahlo
• Great Women Artists: v. 3, Georgia O'Keeffe
• Martha Graham in performance
• Mary Cassatt
• Mary Cassatt: a brush with independence
• Maya Lin : a strong clear vision
• Patchwork: a kaleidoscope of quilts
• Prairie quilts
• Quilts in women's lives: six portraits
• Wild Women Don't Have the Blues

DRAMA & ENTERTAINMENT

• Bramwell (4 vols.)
• Celia Cruz & Friends: a night of salsa
• Cora unashamed
• Elaine Stritch at Liberty
• Elizabeth R ( 6 vols.)(Masterpiece Theatre)
• Ellen DeGeneres, the beginning
• If these walls could talk
• If these walls could talk 2
• Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
• Rescuers stories of courage: two women
• Rita: the real story of Hollywood's love goddess, Rita Hayworth
• Search for signs of ingeligint [sic] life in the universe (Lily Tomlin)
• Slapstick encyclopedia Volume3, funny girls
• Story of fashion (3 vols.)
• Trojan women
• Vagina Monologues
• Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and beyond
• Warrior queen (Masterpiece Theatre re. Boudica, Queen of ancient Britain)

HEALTH

• Breast cancer: prevention and treatment
• Fighting for our future: how young women find strength, hope and courage while taking control of breast cancer
• For women only (with Gary Null)
• Pilates in pregnancy
• Secrets of reducing your breast cancer risk
• Woman to woman: breast cancer and reconstruction options
• A Woman's well being in her prime time (DVD)

HISTORY, NORTH AMERICAN

• Abigail Adams
• Abraham and Mary Lincoln a house divided (PBS-American Experience)
• Belle: the life & writings of Belle Case La Follette
• Big sister, little sister
• Buffalo girls (mini-series)
• Dane County/Wisconsin pioneer women's diaries
• Eleanor Roosevelt (PBS-American Experience)
• Eleanor Roosevelt, a restless spirit (A&E)
• Eleanor Roosevelt story
• Fannie Lou Hamer, everyday battle
• First Ladies
• Fly girls
• Free a man to fight! women soldiers of World War II
• Grey Gardens (Maysles' film re: Kennedy cousin Edith Bouvier Beale)
• Her mother before her: Winnebago women's stories of their mothers & grandmothers
• Hillary Rodham Clinton changing the rules
• Hillary's class
• Indigenous always, the legend of la Malinche and the conquest of Mexico
• Jackie Onassis: an intimate portrait
• Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis in a class of her own (A&E)
• The Journey of Sacagawea
• Live and remember: Wo Kiksuye
• Midwife's tale (American Experience Series)
• Mountain wolf woman
• 1900 house (PBS)
• Pocahontas ambassador of the new world
• Prairie cabin a Norwegian pioneer woman's story
• Prairie child 1848
• Sally Hemings, redefining history
• Sisters {Winnebago women}
• Winnebago women songs & stories

HISTORY, WORLD

• Americas (Vol. 5 in Women's Hands the Changing Rols of Women)
• Cleopatra destiny's queen (A&E)
• Daughter from Danang
• Elizabeth II: winds of change
• Evita the woman behind the myth (A&E)
• Joan of Arc (A&E)
• Joan of Arc (mini-series)
• Queen Elizabeth the queen mother 90 glorious years
• The six wives of Henry VIII (6 volumes)
• Sojourner Truth (Pauline Myers as Soujourner Truth)
• Sojourner Truth antislavery activist
• Wonderful horrible life of Leni Riefenstahl

LABOR & EMPLOYMENT

• Killing us softly
• Life and times of Rosie the riveter
• Sins of our mothers the story of Emeline (New England mills)
• Still killing us softly: advertising's image of women
• Women in construction
• Women in dentistry
• Women in firefighting
• Women in nontraditional careers
• Women in policing
• Women in welding

MUSIC

• Alberta Hunter: my castle's rockin'
• An evening with Lena Horne
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Jazz. Episode 6, Swing (sec. on Billie Holiday, Mary Lou Williams, & Ella Fitzgerald)
• Ladies sing the blues
• Lady day: the many faces of Billie Holiday
• Madonna truth or dare
• Marian Anderson

POLITICS & SOCIAL JUSTICE see also History, North American

• Emma Goldman: an exceedingly dangerous woman
• Ida B. Wells a passion for justice (PBS American Experience)
• Jane Addams
• Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @100
• Not for ourselves alone: the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
• Sandra Day O'Connor
• Sex & justice: highlights of the Anita Hill Clarence Thomas hearings
• Sisters of Selma : Bearing witness for change (DVD)
• Susan B. Anthony
• Susan B. Anthony rebel for the cause
• Votes for women?!
• Women's Rights Movement (DVD set)

SCIENCES

• Country diary of an Edwardian lady
• Jane Goodall: a life in the wild
• Jane Goodall reason for hope: a spiritual journey
• Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees
• The Pill
• Science and gender with Evelyn Fox Keller

SOCIAL ISSUES

• Aileen Wuornos, damsel of death
• America fever (Her own words prod.)
• Battered woman
• Brandon Teena story
• Burning times (Women & spirituality series)
• Celebrating Menopause: a Woman's Journey
• Century of women (v.1) Work & family (v.2) (v.3)
• Century of women (v.2) Image & popular culture
• Century of women (v.3) Sexuality& social justice
• Clara Barton
• The execution of Wanda Jean
• Famine within
• Finding strength for living: laughter & learning for women with cancer
• Full circle (Women & spirituality series)
• Gap toothed women
• Girlhood: a film by Liz Garbus
• Goddess remembered (Women & spirituality series)
• Growing up female
• Hearts and hands
• Helen Keller
• Images & realities (Vol. 1), African American women
• In search of history Salem witch trials (A&E)
• Intimate portrait Betty Friedan
• It was a wonderful life
• Living Islam v. 4: paradise lies at the feet of the mother (women in Islam)
• Lizzie Borden a woman accused (A&E)
• Margaret Mead, taking note
• Paris was a woman
• Power of suggestion (3 vols.) a feminist look at daytime soap operas
• Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
• Reviving Ophelia saving the selves of adolescent girls
• Searching for Debra Winger
• She's nobody's baby
• Shoulder to shoulder (6 vols.)
• Sunset story
• Union maids
• Witches of Salem the horror and the hope
• Woman to Woman (3 vols): initial discovery and diagnosis of breast cancer

SPORTS/EXERCISE

• Golf, the women's game with Patty Sheehan
• Heart of the Sea: Kapolioka èhukai
• Kathy Smith's Moving Through Menopause
• League of their own the documentary
• We got next: WNBA's inaugural season
• Wilma Rudolph

WOMEN AROUND THE WORLD

• Daughters of Afghanistan
• Googoosh: Iran's daughter
• Iran behind closed cha-dors
• Faces of Japan v.1 Fashion model; v.5 Woman soldier
• Global Links v.3 women in the third world
• Heart of the dragon. Episode 8, Marrying (re China)
• Nazrah: a Muslim Woman's Perspective (DVD)
• Noble Struggle (DVD)
• Women and spirituality
• Women of the world (series; 7 vols.)

WRITERS

• A room of one's own (Eileen Atkins as Virginia Woolf)
• Ayn Rand a sense of life
• Beatrix Potter--artist, storyteller and countrywoman
• Belle of Amherst (Julie Harris as Emily Dickinson)
• The Brontes of Haworth (drama/mini-series)
• The field of time (a festival of poets) - Sandra McPherson and Linda McCarriston
• For my people the life and writing of Margaret Walker
• Growth of a poet Sylvia Plath
• How did she do it? (re Agatha Christie)
• Intimate portrait Maya Angelou
• Jane Austen novelist, 1775-1817
• Jane Austen's life, society, works (3 vols.)
• Margaret Atwood: once in August
• Toni Morrison
• Voices & visions. Volume 2, [part 1], Emily Dickinson
• Voices & visions v. 2: Sylvia Plath, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop
• What I want my words to do to you
• Willa Cather : the Road is All (DVD)
• Writer's work with Toni Morrison
• Zona Gale, her life and writings
• Zora is my name! (re: Zora Neale Hurston)

rev. 9/2006

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