Reviews of movies and TV focused on women

Tag: documentary

  • Review: Losing Sight of Shore, an Amazing Documentary

    Review: Losing Sight of Shore, an Amazing Documentary

    Losing Sight of Shore documents a journey by 4 women in a tiny boat who rowed 8,446 miles across the Pacific from America to Australia. They spent 257 days at sea, unsupported. Losing Sight of Shore is both harrowing and inspiring.

  • Exclusive: An Interview with Sarah Moshman, Director of Losing Sight of Shore

    Exclusive: An Interview with Sarah Moshman, Director of Losing Sight of Shore

    Sarah Moshman, award winning writer, director and creator of The Empowerment Project: Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things is now directing a new documentary called Losing Sight of Shore. Losing Sight of Shore tells the amazing and inspiring story of a group of women who row across the Pacific Ocean. Sarah answered my questions about the […]

  • Losing Sight of Shore: 4 Women Row Across the Pacific – UPDATED

    Losing Sight of Shore: 4 Women Row Across the Pacific – UPDATED

    Losing Sight of Shore is a documentary about 4 (actually 6, but only 4 at a time) women who are rowing across the Pacific Ocean unsupported in a small boat called Doris. This team of women who call themselves The Coxless Crew are raising money for charity with their challenging effort. Director Sarah Moshman is […]

  • Watch This: Trailer for Tomorrow: Take Concrete Steps to a Sustainable Future

    Watch This: Trailer for Tomorrow: Take Concrete Steps to a Sustainable Future

    Just in time for Earth Day, comes Tomorrow: Take Concrete Steps to a Sustainable Future, a documentary from France. The film is mostly in English with some subtitles.

  • Review: The White Helmets

    Review: The White Helmets

    The Netflix documentary short The White Helmets won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short in 2017. You can watch it now on Netflix. Let me rephrase that. You should watch it now on Netflix.

  • Review: 13th

    Review: 13th

    13th is a documentary written and directed by Ava DuVernay. It looks at how America came to be the country with the most incarcerated people on the planet and how institutional and societal systems keep it that way.

  • Watch This: Trailer for 13th

    Watch This: Trailer for 13th

    Are you one of many people who don’t quite get what “institutionalized racism” is about? Well, Ava DuVernay’s new documentary 13th is going to explain one aspect of it to you. This film is going to be a history lesson and an eye opener for many people. I’m ready to learn something.

  • Watch This: Trailer for Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

    Watch This: Trailer for Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

    Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise is a PBS American Masters production. Watch your local listings for the premier in September.

  • Audrie & Daisy: Netflix Sexual Assault Documentary

    Audrie & Daisy: Netflix Sexual Assault Documentary

    Audrie & Daisy is a documentary from Netflix that will air in theaters and online beginning September 23. It’s another in a long line of horrific stories designed to wake up America to rape culture and the damage being done to young women every day. Trigger warnings for the following content.

  • Review: The Winding Stream

    Review: The Winding Stream

    The Winding Stream tells the history of American music giants The Carter Family. The story begins with the original Carter family and carries down to today’s practitioners of the art such as Roseanne Cash and Carlene Carter. 

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