Movie Details
Theatrical Release:January 1st, 1971
Original Language:English
Production Companies:San Francisco Newsreel Film Collective
The Woman's Film (1971)
Audience Score
DirectorsLouise AlaimoJudy Smith
Plot
Produced collectively by women, this documentary is a valuable historical document of the origins of the modern women's movement in the United States. The film delves into the lives of ordinary women from different races, educational levels and social classes. Filmed mostly in small consciousness-raising groups, from which the women's movement grew, the women talk about the daily realities of their lives as wives, home-makers, and workers. They speak, sometimes with hesitancy, often with passion, about the oppression of women as they see it.
