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| TITLE | TOPIC(S) | SUMMARY |
| If These Walls Could Talk | Abortion | Three women in three different generations all live in the same house and find themselves facing the decision about what to do with the unwanted pregnancy. |
| Citizen Ruth | Abortion | A movie (comedy) about a women who huffs paint, gets pregnant, and then everyone has an opinion on what she should do. |
| Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness | Abortion | An award-winning, short documentary on the fragility of choice. |
| Legal but Out of Reach | Abortion | A documentary featuring six poor women’s struggles to receive abortion care. |
| Motherhood by Choice, Not Chance | Abortion | The film examines the struggle for the reproductive rights of women in America; it includes intimate interviews with those people involved in legalizing the right to have an abortion. |
| From the Back-Alleys to the Supreme Court & Beyond | Abortion | This Academy-Award nominated film is a trilogy of three short films: (1) When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories; (2) From Danger to Dignity: The Fight for Safe Abortion; and (3) The Fragile Promise of Choice: Abortion in the U.S. Today |
| The Cider House Rules | Abortion, Pre-Roe | This movie, based on the John Irving novel of the same name, centers around a young man raised in a Maine orphanage run by a doctor who performs safe but illegal abortions. |
| Motherless: A Legacy of Loss from Illegal Abortion | Abortion, Pre-Roe | A documentary with stories of people who, as children, lost their mothers to complications from illegal abortions. |
| Rosita | Abortion; International | A documentary about nine-year-old Nicaraguan girl’s struggle to obtain a legal abortion after a rapist got her pregnant. |
| On Hostile Ground | Anti-Choice Protesting; Clinic Violence | In October 1998, a man carrying a rifle assassinated Dr. Barnett Slepian in his home. This incident and the many like it that followed have altered the American perception of anti-abortion violence. This film tries to discover how such events affect abortion providers in their personal and professional lives. |
| I Witness: Shot Down in Pensacola | Anti-Choice Protesting; Clinic Violence | This documentary is about community’s tensions surrounding abortion and the infamous story of two doctors and a clinic escort who were murdered in front of a family planning facility in Florida. |
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