Films

Archival Materials

Still from a 1980 interview featuring Rosemary Brown, an older black woman with cropped white hair.

(1980) Rosemary Brown Interview: Canada’s First Black Female MLA Of Provincial Legislature Talks About Aging Task Force
Still from the film "5'2'80 000 LBS" featuring a woman walking behind two trucks on a dirt road lined with trees.

5’2’80 000 LBS
Still from the film "A Mother and Daughter on Abortion" featuring two white women, one older and one younger, with short brown hair talking at a picnic table outdoors.

A Mother and Daughter on Abortion
Still from the film "A Safe Distance" featuring an Indigenous woman sitting with her young child in her lap with a lake in the background.

A Safe Distance
Still from the film "A Score for Women's Voices" featuring a multiracial group of women marching towards an underpass with their fists raised in solidarity. Above, them more women stand on a bridge cheering.

A Score for Women’s Voices
Screencap from A Scream from Silence

A Scream from Silence
Still from the film "A Woman's Place" featuring a white woman listening to another woman talking. She has short brown hair. Behind her is a floral curtain.

A Woman’s Place
Still from the film "A Writer in the Nuclear Age" featuring Margaret Laurence, an older white woman with short brown hair and glasses, speaking to the camera.

A Writer in the Nuclear Age: A Conversation with Margaret Laurence
Black and white image of two women. The women on the right has her left hand resting on the left shoulder of the women on the right side.

Abortion: Stories from North and South
Film still of woman at the centre of the image sitting at a table holding a mug with both hands.

Alternatives to Hysteria – Part III – Birth Control: Who’s in Control?
Image of a woman standing in front of a microphone while performing.

Amisk
Film still of Augusta sitting with two log cabins behind her.

Augusta
Film still of a woman sitting on a couch, holding her head with her right arm, staring down.

Beyond December 6
Screenshot of Lillian Allen, a Black woman with short hair wearing a yellow and brown blouse, performing Birth Poem on stage.

Birth Poem
Film still of a group of women sitting around a table working on basket weaving.

Black Mother, Black Daughter
Still from the film "Building Futures" featuring a white woman wearing a red shirt, blue jeans, and a white hard hat drilling a door frame.

Building Futures: Re-Building Our Lives
Still from the film "Campaign" featuring yellow and black placards with "Barbara Beardsley NDP" written on them.

Campaign

Come Into My Parlour
Still from the film "Conspiracy of Silence" featuring a blurry image of two white men walking in the snow with a dog.

Conspiracy of Silence – Part 1
Still from the film "Conspiracy of Silence" featuring a judge and a lawyer, both middle aged white men with moustaches, in a courtroom.

Conspiracy of Silence – Part 2
Still from the film "Democracy à la Maude" featuring a black and white archival photograph of white women and children marching in the street.

Democracy à la Maude
Still from the film "Democracy on Trial" featuring a black and white headshot of Henry Morgentaler, a middle aged white man with a beard and glasses.

Democracy on Trial: The Morgentaler Affair
Still from the film "Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief" featuring a close-up of Carol Geddes, an Indigenous woman with short cropped brown hair, in a field.

Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief

Don’t Call Me Baby
Film still of Inuit Artist, Kenojuak standing in front of her artwork printed on paper. Her hand rests on her art, depicting black birds positioned around a circle, with a yellow circular overlay in the middle of the circle.

Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak
Still from the film "Firewords" featuring Louky Bersianik, a middle-aged white woman with light brown hair wearing a teal blouse, writing at her desk.

Firewords: Louky Bersianik, Jovette Marchessault, Nicole Brossard
Still from the film "Flamenco at 5:15" featuring a co-ed group of National Ballet School dancers learning how to dance the flamenco.

Flamenco at 5:15
A still from the film "Flora" featuring the title of the film in yellow text. In the background Flora MacDonald, a middle-aged white woman with curly light brown hair wearing a grey suit, is standing and smiling at a packed campaign event.

Flora: Scenes from a Leadership Convention
Still from footage of the constitutional conference in 1981 featuring a large group of white feminists sitting in a room in Parliament. Many of them are raising their hands to vote on a motion.

Footage from the Women and the Constitution Conference 1981
Still from the film "For Angela" featuring Angela Saskosky and her mother, Rhonda Gordon, outside of a bus. Angela, a young Indigenous girl, is hanging her head and her mother, an Indigenous woman in her thirties, is on her knees talking to her.

For Angela
Still from the film "Forbidden Love" featuring an archival photograph of Amanda White, a queer Indigenous woman interviewed in the film.

Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
Film Still from Goddess Remembered of a silhouetted woman standing on a cliff holding a glass ball in one hand.

Goddess Remembered
Film still from Hands of History of a woman standing in front of an art piece, panting the top right corner. The art piece contains images of wolves, clothing hangers and symbols of Indigenous clothing. There are also white painted handprints on the bottom portion of the art piece. There is also a small table with paint, paint brushes and other art supplies directly behind the woman.

Hands of History
Film still from Home to Buxton of two Black women smiling at one another while sitting side by side.

Home to Buxton
Still of Lillian Allen, a Black woman with short hair wearing a yellow jumpsuit, singing "I Fight Back" on stage.

I Fight Back
Film still from 'I want to be an Engineer' of a woman wearing a white hard hat.

I Want to Be an Engineer
Film still from 'I'll Find a Way" of Nadia smiling at the camera with white sheer curtains behind her.

I’ll Find a Way
Film still from "If You Love This Planet" of Dr. Helen Caldicott speaking into a microphone on a stage.

If You Love This Planet
Film Still from 'It’s Not Over Yet – Saskatchewan Working Women" of a newspaper article titled "Saskatchewan Working Women form new organization".

It’s Not Over Yet – Saskatchewan Working Women
Film still of a black and white photo shown in 'IWD Vancouver Events/Exhibits 1985-1987' of a group of people marching. Two women are holding a banner that states "International Women's Day March 8 '86 - Vancouver"

IWD Vancouver Events/Exhibits 1985-1987
Film still from 'J’me marie, j’me marie pas' of a woman sitting at a desk turned to the camera smiling with her hand towards her chin. There are two flower vases on the desk with one holding a pink flower. The woman is also sitting in front of a book cart.

J’me marie, j’me marie pas
Film still from 'Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance' with the title of the film written in white in the middle of the image. Two law enforcement men are positioned at the left of the image, while two other men are positioned on the right, with barbed wire in between them. All four men are standing in a forest.

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

Kathleen Shannon: On Film, Feminism & Other Dreams
Still from the film "Laila" featuring Laila, a white woman with curly hair wearing sunglasses, in a red car with a sign that says "Laila Paattinen Drywall Taping" on the side of the car.

Laila

Le premier congrès de la Féderation des femmes du Québec en 1966

Leaders debate women’s issues in 1984

Like the Trees

Listening for Something… Adrienne Rich and Dionne Brand in Conversation
Film still from "Long Time Comin'" of Faith Nolan sitting on the left side talking to Grace Channer, sitting on the right side. Both are sitting in a forest.

Long Time Comin’
Still from the film "Love Affair with Politics" depicting Marion Dewar, a middle aged white woman with curly light brown hair, speaking to the camera.

Love Affair with Politics: A Portrait of Marion Dewar
Still of filmmaker Michael Rubbo and Margaret Atwood sitting on tree stumps and talking at a campsite beside a row of her books.

Margaret Atwood: Once in August
Still featuring Margaret Laurence, an older white woman with short grey hair and glasses wearing a floral dress, sitting at a kitchen table and opening letters.

Margaret Laurence, First Lady of Manawaka
Black and white still from the film "Maria" featuring Maria and her mother talking to a union organizer.

Maria
Still from the film "Marker of Change" depicting a stone slab with a description of the Montreal massacre etched into it.

Marker of Change: The Story of the Women’s Monument
Still featuring a close-up illustrated rendering of the moon.

Mother Earth
Still from "Mother of Many Children" featuring a group of older Inuit women sitting on the floor in a circle and weaving.

Mother of Many Children
Black and white still from the film "Mother-to-be" featuring a white woman with short hair talking to her young daughter.

Mother-to-be
Still from the film "Motherland: Tales of Wonder" featuring Florence Clark, a biracial woman who is one of the subjects of the film, hugging her mother.

Motherland: Tales of Wonder
Still from the film "Moving Mountains" featuring two female miners holding shovels and walking in the snow.

Moving Mountains
Still from the film "Moving On" featuring an image of the London, Ontario skyline and the words 'Moving On' in neon teal.

Moving On
Still from the film "My Name is Kahenttiosta" featuring an image of Kahenttiosta and her son. and a Mohawk Warrior flag.

My Name Is Kahentiiosta
Still from the film "No Way! Not Me" featuring Rosemary Brown, an older Black woman with white cropped hair wearing a teal shirt, speaking on a stage.

No Way! Not Me
Still featuring a blurry black and white archival image of nurses striking.

Nurses defy with illegal strike in 1988
Still from the film "Older, Stronger, Wiser" featuring four older black women sitting in a living room and talking.

Older, Stronger, Wiser
Still from the film "Our Dear Sisters" featuring Alanis Obomsawin, an Indigenous women wearing braids and a dress, sitting in an arm chair and talking to the camera, with her young daughter in her lap.

Our Dear Sisters
Still from the film "Patricia's Moving Picture" featuring a shot of a suburban house and the words "Patricia's Moving Picture" in white font.

Patricia’s Moving Picture
Still from the film "Portrait of the Artist--As an Old Lady" featuring Paraskeva Clark, an elderly white woman with grey hair wearing a red checkered blouse, singing animatedly.

Portrait of the Artist–As an Old Lady

Reel Women’s Cable Collective – Great Expectations: Women and the Economy Parts 1-3

Reel Women’s Cable Collective – Women’s Art in Process: The Making of Ritual and Ritual Objects

Reel Women’s Cable Collective – Women on Camera: Who is an Indian Woman?
Still from the film "Rising Up Strong" featuring a blurry archival image of white women holding placards that say "Farah Workers Strike!".

Rising Up Strong: Women Organizing for Change
Still from the film "Sisters in the Struggle" featuring a colourful illustrated collage of black women's faces, slogans, and newspaper clips.

Sisters in the Struggle
Still from the film "Some Black Women" featuring a black and white archival photograph of a black woman wearing a head wrap smiling and looking into the distance. On top of the image are the words "SOME BLACK WOMEN."

Some Black Women
Still from the film "Souris, tu m'inquiètes" featuring a white woman with short brown hair holding a cigarette in her mouth.

Souris, tu m’inquiètes
Still from the film "Speak It" featuring a young black woman wearing a yellow patterned head wrap looking into the distance against a black background.

Speak It! From the Heart of Black Nova Scotia
Still from the film "Spirit of the Kata" depicting four white women doing karate in a gym.

Spirit of the Kata
Still from the film "Starting from Nina" depicting archival footage of four kids sitting on the floor of a classroom and talking.

Starting from Nina: The Politics of Learning
Still from "Sylvie's Story" depicting Sylvie, a white woman with short brown hair, speaking to a shelter worker, a black woman with short black hair.

Sylvie’s Story
Title card from the film "The Burning Times" featuring a medieval etching of a man persecuting a woman perceived to be a witch.

The Burning Times
Still from the film "The Fleck Women" featuring a blurry black and white archival photograph of two Fleck strikers holding signs.

The Fleck Women
Still from the film "The Glass Ceiling" featuring one of the subjects, a young black woman, working as a receptionist.

The Glass Ceiling
Still from the short animated film "The Housewife" featuring a dark blue background and a blue animated figure taking down laundry from a clothesline during a storm.

The Housewife
Still from the film "The Right Candidate" featuring archival newspaper clips on Anne Cools' candidacy, reading "Top Liberals put the heat on Miss Cools."

The Right Candidate for Rosedale
Still from the film "The Right to Care" featuring a nurse and a doctor treating a patient on a hospital bed.

The Right to Care
Still of Lillian Allen performing The Subversives. She is joined on stage by many women, who are all dancing.

The Subversives
Still from the film "They Called Us 'Les Filles du Roy'" featuring an intergenerational group of Québecois women sitting at a table and looking at old photographs.

They Called Us ‘Les Filles du Roy’
Still from the film "Toward Intimacy" featuring Amethya Weaver, one of the film's subjects, talking about her deaf and lesbian identity. She is a white woman with short brown hair wearing a purple shirt and earrings.

Toward Intimacy
Still from the film "Turnaround" featuring four white women of varying ages sitting on the ground talking.

Turnaround: A Story of Recovery

Un Espacio Para Todos (A Space for All)
Still from the film "Under the Willow Tree" featuring a black and white archival photo of a Chinese family formally dressed. There is a mother and a father and eight young children.

Under the Willow Tree: Pioneer Chinese Women in Canada
Still from the short film "Unnatural Causes" depicting Lillian Allen, a black woman with short black hair wearing colourful overalls, speaking to the camera and writing the words "no rest, no rest" on a white brick wall.

Unnatural Causes
Still from the film "Until Someone Listens" depicting a black and white archival image of white women who were institutionalized in the 20th century.

Until Someone Listens
Black and white archival image of white women protestors on the steps of the Art Gallery in Vancouver holding various pro-choice banners.

Vancouver Women’s Caucus March: Abortion Is Our Right, 1970
Black and white still from the film "Who's Counting?" depicting Marilyn Waring, a middle aged white woman with short brown hair, looking off to the side of the frame.

Who’s Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics
Still from the film "Why Women Run" depicting several elderly white women enthusiastically raising campaign signs that say "Elect Alexa McDonough NDP."

Why Women Run
Still from "Women in Struggle" featuring blurry archival footage of women holding a banner that says "Women for Abortion Law Repeal."

Women in Struggle