Movies and TvShows featuring "womens-emancipation" theme.

Iron Jawed Angels is a biographical drama set in the 1920s, depicting the courageous women who played a pivotal role in the suffrage movement in the United States. It showcases their struggle, protests, and imprisonment, highlighting the obstacles they faced in their fight for women's emancipation and the right to vote.

In the year 1867, a group of businessmen in Denver, Colorado, try to transport 40 wagons of whiskey over a treacherous mountain pass. Along the way, they encounter numerous obstacles including quicksand, Native Americans, a military band, and a labor strike. Amidst the chaos, a father-daughter relationship blooms and love triumphs as the journey ends with a grand wedding.

Artemisia tells the story of Artemisia Gentileschi, a talented female painter who defied societal norms and faced numerous challenges as a woman in the art world. Set in 17th-century Italy, the film explores themes of passion, empowerment, and the struggles faced by women in a patriarchal society.

In 17th-century France, Molière, a struggling playwright, forms a comedy troupe and faces censorship and competition from his mother and daughter. As he gains success, he becomes entangled in the French court and deals with personal hardships, including misery, starvation, and tuberculosis.

Juli, who works in a brick factory, begins a romantic relationship with her boss, to whom she hides the fact that she has a son.

The Rainbow follows the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family, focusing on the experiences of the women in the family. It explores themes of bisexuality, sexual awakening, women's rights, and love amidst societal pressures.

A divorced woman in her thirties fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society geared to male dominance and early training for career women.

The Day I Became a Woman is a film composed of three vignettes highlighting the lives of women in Iran. The first story follows a young girl on her 9th birthday, when she is forced by village elders to wear a chador and lose her freedom. The second story focuses on a married woman who decides to go on a shopping spree and escape from the oppression of her husband. The final story portrays an elderly woman who becomes a target of ridicule when she climbs a tree to retrieve her stolen stove. Through these stories, the film explores themes of tradition, women's rights, and the struggle for freedom in Iran.

Based upon the life of activist and trade unionist (and later MP) Sonja Davies. The film covers her life up to 1956, when, at age 33, she was elected to the Nelson Hospital Board. During this period she develops strong socialist beliefs, marries and divorces, at age 17 trains as a nurse, has a romance (and a child) with an American marine who is killed in WWII action. She battles tuberculosis and marries a former boyfriend when he returns from the war. She becomes part of a women's ill-fated campaign to save the Nelson railway line from closure and begins to be elected to political bodies.

A humorous and revealing tale of a group of eight women from varying walks of life, who have volunteered for a rugged survival course at a tough mountain school in the English lakes.

The film evolves around questions of identity, popular memory and culture. While focusing on aspects of Vietnamese reality as seen through the lives and history of women resistance in Vietnam and in the U.S, it raises questions on the politics of interviewing and documenting.

Was have Vasily and Vasilisa seven children. They lived together, the village respected the working family. But one day something happened to the owner: washed down the man and raised his hand to the faithful wife. And then Vasilisa evicted her husband in the barn. It was just before the war.…

Two Women is a drama and romance movie set in Iran. It tells the story of two women, one an architecture student in Tehran University and the other a tutor in a rural setting. They both face challenges in their lives, including a jealous husband, a loveless marriage, and the societal constraints placed upon them. Through their friendship and determination, they navigate through the obstacles and strive for women's emancipation.

A documentary film that captures the experiences of ordinary Chinese citizens during the Cultural Revolution, showcasing their struggles, work, and the effects of Maoism. It portrays the class struggle, the impact on the working class and peasants, and the principles of communism in Communist China during the 1970s.

A Zimbabwean widow (Jesesi Mungoshi) falls prey to her greedy brother-in-law (Dominic Kanaventi) who takes her children and belongings.

A consciously modern depiction of working women in East Germany – labourers and managers in a garment factory talk about relationships and family planning, raising children and career qualifications, women’s rights and equality in the socialist (meritocratic) society. In conversations with a doctor, the women also have a chance to voice their personal concerns, as well as their feelings about the birth control pill, a subject that caused a stir at the time.

The 24-year-old Monique, a Dutch woman of Hindustani origin, is at a turning point in her life. A recent college graduate, Monique has to make a decision: will she go along with her parents' wishes and leave the house a married woman, or pursue her dreams instead? She'd like to start off by discovering the world, making a career for herself, acting in Bollywood musicals and living on her own for a while. Her wishes and desires aren't all that different from Dutch girls; they clash with Hindustani traditions, in which women are expected to get married as soon as possible. Monique is trapped between two cultures she doesn't want to disappoint her parents, but she also can't bear to deny her own plans for the future.

A documentary short about women in the U.S. Navy.