Summary: "This four-disc set showcases more than fourteen hours of rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play. These women organize labor strikes, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts, explode out of chimneys, electrocute the police force, and assume a range of identities that gleefully dismantle traditional gender norms and sexual constraints. The...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CINSummary: Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LITCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LITCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LiSummary: A stirring look at three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand. A...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CER1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CER
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CERSummary: In a dusty, under populated California resort town, naive southern waif Pinky Rose idolizes and befriends her fellow nurse, the would-be sophisticate "thoroughly modern" Millie Lammoreaux. When Millie takes Pinky in as her roommate, Pinky's hero worship evolves into something far stranger and more sinister than either could have anticipated. This dreamlike masterpiece careens from the humorous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2011
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Follow the sisters Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, on their journey from childhood to adulthood. Under the guidance of their mother Marmee, they navigate what it means to be a young woman: from gender roles to sibling rivalry, first love, loss, and marriage. Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott, this story is as relevant and engaging today as it was on its original publication in 1868.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LITCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LITSummary: After years of relative obscurity, Alice Guy Blach is now being recognized for her role in the development of the cinematic arts. Beginning as a typist for the Gaumont Company, she volunteered to produce a series of novelty films. So successful were her films, and so efficient her methods, she eventually became the studio's head of production. During cinema's first decade, the multi-talented...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALISummary: The summer after Ana's high school graduation is a turning point in her life. She has to decide whether to go to college and experience life, or stay home, get married and work at her sister's struggling garment factory.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office, Inc. 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY REASummary: The story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives. As each character and each relationship is tested, and shows the variety of roads people choose; some tragic, some hopeful.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MENSummary: Having pioneered the art and technology of cinema during its infancy (organizing a system of film production at the Gaumont Studios in France), Alice Guy Blach m̌oved to the United States where she co-founded the Solax Company, where she served as head of a production. Enjoying complete creative freedom, she explored long-form storytelling, alternating between serious dramatizations of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALISummary: When Sal's husband dies suddenly of a heart attack, Sal and her best friend, Tip try to find some fun among the knitting and cake-baking of The Ladies' Guild in the small West Country town of Clatterford St. Mary. The Guild members are certainly an eccentric bunch: leader Eileen, who takes her position--and chains--very seriously; cheese-mad Rose (or Margaret, depending on whether she's taken...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLASummary: When a woman's lover leaves her, she discovers that the police are looking for her because of his criminal activities. After talking to a female lawyer, she discovers that her lawyer is her old lover's new girlfriend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN WOMSummary: Great Paxford's inspirational band of women return for more incredible stories from the home front as they deal with imminent threat during the Battle of Britain. As the nation finds itself increasingly beleaguered, relationships, friendships, and loyalties within the community will be tested as never before. The women find they must heighten their efforts to boost morale amidst the chaos and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Distribution 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HOMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HOM RATED NRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Home 2017Summary: The story of Emma Harte, a bright and ambitious servant girl who overcomes her impoverished Yorkshire beginnings in her quest to become an international retailing magnate and one of the richest women in the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WOMSummary: The remarkable story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a ferocity unlike anything the world has ever seen. Inspired by true events, it follows the emotionally epic journey of General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and prepares them for battle against an enemy determined to obliterate...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE WOMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie WomanCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOMSummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VALSummary: Writer/detective Jessica Fletcher is always uncovering clues, whether she's at home in the charming town of Cabot Cove, teaching in New York City, or traveling the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MURSummary: Miss Canada wins the contest of the "most virgin" Miss Monde 1984 and the prize is marriage to a milk industry tycoon along with his 50 billion dollars fortune. During their honeymoon, Miss Canada does not accept the "golden" penis of her husband, and with the help of black man Jeremiah Muscle, she runs away to Paris. There she meets a Latin singer, El Macho, they have intercourse in the Eiffel...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE SWESummary: In the fourth season the girls are tentatively edging toward maturity as they take on new personas in new worlds. As the season begins, Hannah leaves New York to attend the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop in the hopes of becoming a more serious writer, while confronting uncertainty in her relationship with Adam. Meanwhile, back in New York, Marnie pursues a music career while balancing her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GIRSummary: Fast forward to the 1980s as Wonder Woman's next big-screen adventure finds her facing an all-new foe: The Cheetah and Max Lord.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE WONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WONSummary: Fast forward to the 1980s as Wonder Woman's next big-screen adventure finds her facing an all-new foe: The Cheetah and Max Lord.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WONCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WoSummary: This is the story of Harriet Ross Tubman, founder of the Underground Railroad, who led hundreds of slaves to freedom in the North before the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Xenon Pictures 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WOMSummary: Story of a woman rebuilding her life socially and emotionally after her divorce.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNM1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF UNM
Summary: Bitter rivals fight for control of the Women's Institute in a rural English town as it struggles with the onset of World War II. Separated from husbands, fathers, sons and brothers for years at a time, some permanently, they find themselves under extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015