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- DirectorCristian MungiuStarsAnamaria MarincaLaura VasiliuVlad IvanovA woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania.
- DirectorDiana WhittenStarsRebecca GompertsKinga JelinskiCecilia CostaA fearless sea captain sails a ship through loopholes in international law, providing abortions on the high seas, and leaving in her wake a network of emboldened activists who trust women to handle abortion on their own terms.
- DirectorNanfu WangJialing ZhangStarsNanfu WangZaodi WangZhimei WangAfter becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China's one-child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment.
- DirectorHeidi EwingRachel GradyThe abortion battle continues to rage in unexpected ways on one corner in an American city.
- DirectorCamille HametSerena RobinStarsCatherine DeneuveA documentary that follows 4 peoples journey dealing with the abortion issue in Ireland.
- DirectorRicki SternAnne SundbergStarsDonna HowardJohn SeagoBrigitte AmiriA deep historical look at one of the most controversial issues of our time, highlighting the abortion debate from various points along the ideological spectrum in a winding story of abortion in America.
- DirectorSarah DiehlStarsWanda NowickaAlicja TysiacMarijke AlblasThis documentary feature contrasts changes in Poland and South Africa regarding abortion laws and their impact on the lives of women. In the 90's, Poland banned abortion due to the increasing influence of the Catholic Church after the fall of communism; around the same time South Africa legalized it, reforming the health system after the fall of apartheid. The film also however, illustrates the paradox that the implementation of such laws may have little effect on the accessibility of abortion services: Illegal abortions are more accessible in Poland than legal ones in South Africa.
- DirectorNick SweeneyStarsNorma McCorveyAndy MeislerCharlotte TaftFinal series of interviews prior to Norma McCorvey's death and reveals the unvarnished truth behind her journey from pro-choice to pro-life and beyond - in what she calls her "deathbed confession.
- DirectorEliza HittmanStarsSidney FlaniganTalia RyderThéodore PellerinA pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.
- DirectorTracy Droz TragosThis documentary gives women a voice in the choices they've had to make regarding their pregnancies.
- DirectorGillian RobespierreStarsJenny SlateJake LacyGaby HoffmannA twenty-something comedienne's unplanned pregnancy forces her to confront the realities of independent womanhood for the first time.
- DirectorDawn PorterStarsJune AyersAndrea FerrignoGloria GrayFrom 2011 to 2013, hundreds of regulations were passed restricting access to abortion in America. Reproductive rights advocates refer to these as "TRAP" laws, or Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers. While these laws have been enacted in 11 states, Southern clinics, in particular have been hit hardest and are now in a fight for survival. In Texas, less than half of the clinics open in 2013 are still functioning. In Alabama, three clinics struggle to keep their doors open. And in Mississippi, just one abortion clinic remains. Some of the most common requirements with which clinics struggle to comply include: requiring physicians to obtain admitting privileges from local hospitals for any doctor performing abortions, requiring that clinics undertake expensive renovations such as widening hallways by a few inches to accommodate wheelchairs and gurneys they will rarely use, and requiring other regulations usually reserved for hospitals even though abortion providers rarely require such a high level of care. But even in this hostile environment the doctors, clinic owners and staff refuse to give up. Trapped interweaves the personal stories behind these regulatory battles: from the physician who crisscrosses the country assuring medical services are available; to the strong women and men who run the clinics; to the lawyers leading the legal charge to eliminate these laws; to the women they are all determined to help. In this feature length character driven film, our main characters fight alongside a dedicated cadre of attorneys to preserve abortion rights in a country living with the mistaken belief that Roe v. Wade still protects a woman's right to choose.
- DirectorMike LeighStarsImelda StauntonJim BroadbentHeather CraneyAbortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
- DirectorRachel CareyStarsCody HornCait CortelyouSarah SteeleA group of determined Midwestern women begin providing safe but illegal abortions in this 1960s period drama based on a true story.
- DirectorMartha ShaneLana WilsonStarsGeorge TillerWarren HernLeroy CarhartThis thought provoking, sometimes troubling documentary examines the personal and ethical imperatives that drive abortion providers to continue in the face of often dangerous legal and personal harassment.
- DirectorAnna RodgersWhen Women Won tells the emotional inside story of the Together for Yes campaign to repeal the 8th amendment and change Irish society forever.
- DirectorAlex ThompsonStarsKelly O'SullivanRamona Edith WilliamsCharin AlvarezAfter an accidental pregnancy turned abortion, a deadbeat nanny finds an unlikely friendship with the six-year old she's charged with protecting.
- DirectorCherNancy SavocaStarsDemi MooreShirley KnightCatherine KeenerThe movie examines the abortion issue through three stories set in different eras: 1952, 1974 and 1996.
- StarsNaomi GrossmanKate DuffyRachel E. CraneA workplace comedy set in a women's health clinic, following the kooky employees and the stories of the women+ who come through the clinic. Inspired by true stories from women and clinics all over the country.
- DirectorDorothy FadimanStarsDorothy FadimanAngela ParkerThe film consists of first person stories which reveal the physical, emotional and legal consequences of having or providing an abortion when it was a criminal act.
- DirectorRachel Lee GoldenbergStarsHaley Lu RichardsonBarbie FerreiraGiancarlo EspositoA 17-year old Missouri teen named Veronica discovers she has gotten pregnant, a development that threatens to end her dreams of matriculating at an Ivy League college, and the career that will follow.
- DirectorJoan Micklin SilverStarsSissy SpacekAidan QuinnEstelle ParsonsThe story of Sherri Finkbine, a woman who sought a medically recommended abortion and endured a firestorm of public controversy about her decision.
- DirectorAideen KaneLucy KennedyMaeve O'BoyleStarsWendy GraceAndrea HoranAilbhe SmythThe 8th tells the story of Irish women and their fight to overturn one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world. After a 35-year struggle, the pro-choice side must radically shift tactics to try to bring this historically conservative electorate over the line.
- DirectorMaisie CrowStarsBarbara BeaversShannon BrewerApril JacksonWith a single abortion clinic remaining in the state of Mississippi, the city of Jackson has become ground zero in the nation's battle over reproductive health-care. Jackson is an intimate portrait of the interwoven lives of three women in this town. Wrought with the racial and religious undertones of the Deep South, the lives of two women are deeply affected by the director of the local pro-life crisis pregnancy center and the movement she represents.
- DirectorAudrey DiwanStarsAnamaria VartolomeiKacey Mottet KleinLuàna BajramiAn adaptation of Annie Ernaux's novel of the same name, looking back on her experience with abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s.
- DirectorTia LessinEmma PildesStarsAbbyJudith ArcanaHeather BoothPolice arrested seven women who were part of a clandestine network. Using code names, blindfolds and safe houses, they built an underground service for women seeking safe, affordable, illegal abortions calling themselves JANE.
- DirectorPhyllis NagyStarsElizabeth BanksSigourney WeaverChris MessinaA married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America when she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.
- DirectorAlexander PayneStarsLaura DernSwoosie KurtzMary Kay PlaceAn irresponsible, drug-addicted, recently impregnated woman finds herself in the middle of an abortion debate when both parties attempt to sway her to their respective sides.
- DirectorMahamat-Saleh HarounStarsAchouackh Abakar SouleymaneRihane Khalil AlioYoussouf DjaoroAmina, a practicing Muslim, lives with her daughter, 15-year-old Maria. When Amina learns Maria is pregnant and wants to abort the child, they face an impossible situation in a country where abortion is legally and morally condemned.
- StarsSinéad KeenanLola PetticrewAmy James-KellyDramatisation of three real-life stories of how three families were each affected by Northern Ireland's restrictive abortion law before it was lifted in 2019.
- DirectorMark ObenhausStarsJessica SavitchMark ObenhausAbortion Clinic tells the stories of four young women who are confronted by unplanned pregnancies. Two of them decide to carry their pregnancies to term; two chose to have abortions performed at a local clinic.
- DirectorBarbara AttieMike AttieJanet GoldwaterAt the Philadelphia abortion helpline, counselors answer non-stop calls from women and teens who cannot afford access to reproductive health care in America.
- DirectorStefanie BrockhausSome Things Are Hard To Talk About is a personal documentary about the secrets of abortions in my family over three generations. After I had an abortion I find out that both my mother and my grandmother secretly had abortions. An intricate story of family history, choices and resulting effects uncovers.
- DirectorJuan SolanasA documentary on the women fighting for abortion rights in Argentina.
- DirectorJohn ZaritskyStarsWill LymanAiring as his trial begins, FRONTLINE follows intersecting lives of twenty-two-year-old antiabortionist, John Salvi III, charged with murder in armed attacks on two Massachusetts health clinics, and his victims
- DirectorAnu ValiaStarsGloria LainoDoran ButlerZach SaundersAfter traveling hundreds of miles, a woman must wait another twenty-four hours before she can get an abortion.
- DirectorMarianne FarleyStarsKarine Gonthier-HyndmanChantal BarilKent McQuaidIn the near future, following the adoption of an anti-abortion law, Kara has no other choice but to end her pregnancy, using an illegal abortion clinic.
- DirectorLee ArmstrongStarsSaoirse-Monica JacksonRoss McKinneyLauren O'RourkeSarah must make a journey from Belfast to Liverpool to avoid a life she does not want. A journey that is against the law.
- DirectorGretchen StoeltjeStarsWendy DavisThis timely doc follows Texas State Senator Wendy Davis's filibuster in 2013, when she stood for 13 hours to fight an antiabortion law threatening women's access to lifesaving healthcare.
- DirectorPlum Stupple-HarrisStarsJamie-Lee O'DonnellCarrie CrowleyCiara BaxendaleAfter travelling to the UK for an abortion, three Irish women spend the night together in London.
- DirectorJo ArdingerStarsTamara LoertscherCherisse ScottSara AinsworthPERSONHOOD tells a different reproductive rights story - one that ripples far beyond the right to choose and into the lives of every pregnant person in America. Like a moment from the chilling "Handmaid's Tale," Tammy Loertscher's fetus was given an attorney, while the courts denied Tammy her constitutional rights. In this timely documentary, we see her sent to jail, and then forced to challenge a Wisconsin law that eroded her privacy, her right to due process, and her body sovereignty. Through her story, PERSONHOOD reframes the abortion debate to encompass the growing system of laws that criminalize and police pregnant women. At the intersection of the erosion of women's rights, the war on drugs, and mass incarceration, Tammy's experience reveals the dangerous consequences of these little-known laws for American women and families.
- DirectorJan HaakenSamantha PrausFeminist doctors fight for the heart and soul of American medicine
- DirectorBlandine LenoirStarsLaure CalamyZita HanrotIndia HairAnnie becomes pregnant. Since she doesn't want to keep the child, she meets a movement that performs illegal abortions in the eyes of the world. But, in the seventies, Annie will encounter allies and opponents along the way.
- DirectorDorothy FadimanStarsHuw AnwylPeg BeissertCurtis BoydA look at the courageous legal and extralegal efforts of those who fought to break the silence, change the laws and end the shame which surrounded abortion when it was a crime in the United States.
- DirectorDorothy FadimanStarsLeroy CarhartWarren HernJames Lawson
- DirectorPenny LaneDirector Penny Lane has a dinner party to talk to different women about their abortion experiences.
- DirectorErik CieslewiczBrooke SperryStarsDino CorvinoLiz HayesChrystina HeadTwo Catholic women who have reconciled their faith with their support of the right to choose travel across Wisconsin to spread their message.
- DirectorGustavo MontañaWomen's rights in the state of Guanajuato in Mexico are being systematically violated by extreme and draconian state laws established in the year 2000. These laws are being used to sentence women to prison for 20 to 35 years for the 'crime' of abortion and miscarriage. Many of these women were sent ti prison without a fair trial and now through a mexican non-profit organization called Las Libres they can speak their voices and tell their stories. The stories of these women imprisoned fro abortion and the activists working to free them engages in broader struggles grounded in basic human rights to current situations in Argentina and the United States to show that what is happening in Mexico is a phenomenon that is much larger than Mexico.
- DirectorCynthia LowenStarsTerrisa BukovinacMarjorie DannenfelserKristan HawkinsThree women lead the charge in their single-minded quest to overturn Roe v. Wade, as they face down forces equally determined to safeguard women's access to safe and legal abortions.
- DirectorCelina EscherStarsLas 17Teodora VásquezAfter serving ten years behind bars for her miscarriage, considered by her government to be an act of aggravated murder, Teodora Vásquez becomes a spokesperson for the other 16 Salvadoran women behind bars for the same "crime" in this story of sorority, resilience, and solidarity.
- DirectorRaney AronsonFRONTLINE investigates the steady decline in the number of physicians and clinics performing abortions and focuses on local political battles in states like Mississippi, where only a single clinic performs the controversial procedure.