Videos and Films
NWHA Recommended Videos
National Women’s History Videos are on our YouTube channel at National Women’s History Alliance.
Wild West Women’s video channel is at Wild West Women.
Documentaries
Many of the films below will be in Kanopy or accessible on YouTube.
Documentaries (many available for streaming from libraries) about influential women recommended by the National Women’s History Alliance.
Award winning 90-minute video documentary entitled “My Name is Pauli Murray.” https://www.amazon.com/My-Name-Pauli-Murray/dp/B09DMPMWCP
https://www.worldcat.org/lists/52d7ffb0-568f-48a2-a197-d56760b0d9d8
Votes for Women: The story of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign, 19 minutes) a Film by Martha Wheelock and Kay Weaver. Wild West Women Films. www.youtube.com/@wildwestwomenfilms.
California Women Win the Vote, 2011, a Film by Martha Wheelock and Kay Weaver. Wild West Women Films. www.youtube.com/@wildwestwomenfilms.
He Named Me Malala (Amazon Prime Video)
I Am Greta (Hulu)
Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed (Documentary about Shirley Chisholm, first Black woman in Congress) “XYZ”
Equal Means Equal Amazon Prime
Jane (the incredible career of primatologist Jane Goodall. documentary. Disney
Betty & Coretta (Poignant tribute to the courage and fortitude of two lesser-known civil rights heroes: Dr. Betty Shabazz and Coretta Scott King, the widows of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.)
RBG (The Exceptional life and Career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsberg)
Films from Studios
Many of the films below will be in Kanopy or accessible on YouTube.
https://www.worldcat.org/lists/1c6ab3df-1269-4d12-bfc3-a9b7db9201ad
Learn more about influential women with these films (many available for streaming from libraries), recommended by the National Women’s History Alliance (https://www.nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org). The National Women’s History Alliance – formerly, the National Women’s History Project – “spearheaded the movement for March being declared National Women’s History Month” and is “a leader in promoting Women’s History and is committed to the goals of education, empowerment, equality, and inclusion.”
Frida (Hulu)
On the Basis of Sex (Prime Video)
Erin Brokovich (Peacock)
A League of Their Own (Tubi)
Selena
Hidden figures
JOY
Suffragette
Iron-Jawed Angels
Whale Rider
Queen Of Katwe
Nine To Five
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Equal Means Equal Amazon Prime
Amazing Grace: Aretha Franklin
A Ballerina’s Tale ( Misty Copeland, Black Ballerina)
Beauty Bites Beast: Awaken the Warrior within Women and Girls. – CONFIRM WHICH FILM, https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3ABeauty+Bites+Beast