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- Be Fruitful and Multiply - How does it feel to have been pregnant or nursing for 25 out of 26 years of your married life? This film puts this and other questions directly to ultra-orthodox Jewish women for the first time.
- Birth - The story of a woman caught up in a cycle of pregnancies because of social pressure to produce a male child, and two other stories of babies, in need, or absent, in Arab countries.
- Breasts - Twenty-two women, ages 6 to 84-years-old, discuss how breasts play a crucial role in the experiences of puberty, motherhood, sex, health, and aging. ** 2002 Outstanding Achievement Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality **
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- Casting the First Stone - Focuses on six women who regularly confront each other from opposite sides of a police barricade -- three believe that abortion is an inalienable right, three consider it murder.
- The Clitoris - A close look at that part of the female anatomy that exists purely for pleasure, and how this highly sensitive organ has long been ignored or misunderstood in the medical literature.
- Crimes of Honour - Filmed in Jordan and on the West Bank, investigates the terrible reality of femicide - the killing of sisters or daughters suspected of losing their virginity, for having refused an arranged marriage or having left a husband.
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- Dear Dr. Spencer - From the early 1920s until his death in 1969, Dr. Robert Douglas Spencer practiced medicine in a small town in Pennsylvania, where he treated colds, set fractures - and performed illegal abortions.
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- Gorgeous - Animated film by Kaz Cooke, whose character Hermoine, the Modern Girl, tackles plastic surgery, beauty therapy, and bulimia in a feral fit of inadequacy.
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- Made Over in America - In a culture where bodies seem customizable, how do we perceive body image, and how are desires for a better self influenced by reality television and the makeover industry?
- Martha - An unusual profile of Martha Suter, age 37, who has never heard a sound or seen an image.
- Motherland Afghanistan - An Afghan-American filmmaker reveals the extent of the infant mortality tragedy in Afghanistan by documenting the return of her father, an OB/GYN who emigrated to the U.S. in 1972.
- Ms. Conceptions - Dually profound and amusing, delves into the "family values" debate via an exposé of women who are single mothers by choice.
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- A Promise Kept - A young woman who lost her husband to AIDS speaks to school groups about preventing HIV infection.
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- Repetition Compulsion - An animated documentary that explores how prolonged childhood abuse in the lives of homeless women has set the stage for further victimization on the streets.
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- Searching for Hawa's Secret - The story of the unlikely partnership between a Canadian microbiologist and a Kenyan prostitute in the scientific quest to find a vaccine for AIDS.
- The Secret Life of Babies - A two-part examination of the psychological development of babies, from intrauterine life to the first months after birth. How do fetuses and babies perceive their worlds, and ours?
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- Unborn in the USA - Inside the pro-life movement. A riveting story told with more than 70 exclusive interviews with pro-life activists, and seldom-seen archival footage.
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- The Virgin Diaries - Two young women journey through Morocco in search of answers to their questions about virginity, sex and Islam.
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- Western Eyes - The search for beauty and self-acceptance of two women of Asian descent contemplating plastic surgery - they believe their appearance, specifically their eyes, affect how they are perceived by others.
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