Belly of the Beast (2022)

Name: Belly of the Beast
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Released: 2020-06-29
Duration: 1 hr 22 min
Rating: 67
Cast: Kelly Dillon, Cynthia Chandler, Corey Johnson, Courtney Hooks

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NR 1 hr 22 minMar 1st, 2022Drama, Documentary

When a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal involuntary sterilizations in California’s women’s prison system, they take to the courtroom to wage a near-impossible battle against the Department of Corrections. With a growing team of investigators inside prison working with colleagues on the outside, they uncover a series of statewide crimes - from dangerously inadequate health care to sexual assault to coercive sterilizations - primarily targeting women of color. But no one believes them. This shocking legal drama captured over seven years features extraordinary access and intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated women, demanding our attention to a shameful and ongoing legacy of eugenics and reproductive injustice in the United States.

StarringKelly DillonCynthia ChandlerCorey Johnson

DirectorErika Cohn

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On DVD & Blu-ray:March 1st, 2022 - Buy DVD

Original Language:English

Executive Producers:Geralyn White Dreyfous, Blye Pagon Faust, Mark Lipson, Patty Quillin, Doree Friedman, Diane Philips, Lois Vossen, Sally Jo Fifer

Production Companies:ITVS, Idlewild Films, Tribeca Film Institute, Fork Films, Chicken & Egg Films, Black Public Media, Independent Lens, Women Make Movies

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