Northern Illinois University

Women's Studies Program

NIU Women’s Studies
Audio/Video Resource List
DVD :

Bassford, Kimberlee. Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority.  New York, NY: Women Make Movies, 2008.  [DVD, 56 min.]

Barnard Center for Research on Women, Producer. Feminism: Controversies, Challenges, Actions (by Rebecca Haimowitz). (New York, NY: Barnard Center for Research on Women, 2005). [DVD, approx. 29 min.]

Biemann, Ursula.  Performing the Border.  (New York, NY: Women Make Movies, 1999).  [DVD, 42 min.]

Borum, Caty, Kerry Candele, and Luisa Dantas, Producers. Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price. (Culver City, CA: Brave New Films, 2005). [DVD, 97 min.]

CARE. I am Powerful (action kit). (Atlanta, GA: CARE, 2006). [DVD, 18 min.]

Ferrero, Pat. Hearts and Hands: 19th Century Women and their Quilts. 1988. (Harriman, NY: New Day Films, 2008). [DVD, 60 min.]

Ferrero, Pat.Quilts in Women's Lives. 1981. (Harriman, NY: New Day Films, 2008). [DVD, 30 min.]

Hamilton, David, Producer. Water (by Deepa Mehta). (Beverly Hills, CA: Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2006). [DVD, 117 min.]

If Americans Knew, Producer. The Easiest Targets: The Israeli Policy of Strip Searching Women and Children. (Washington, D.C.: If Americans Knew, 2006). [DVD, 13 min.]

Johnson, Arne, Producer. Girls Rock! Los Angeles, CA: Liberation Entertainment, 2009.

Katz, Jackson. Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity. Northampton, MA: Media Education Foundation, 2002. [DVD, 87 min. + 18 min. interview]

Keith, Thomas. Generation M: Misogyny in Media & Culture. Northampton, MA: Media Education Foundation, 2008. [DVD, 60 min.]

McCune, Pat, Producer & Director. Promises to Keep: Fifty Years After Brown v. Board of Education. (Ann Arbor, MI: Univ. of Michigan, 2004). [DVD, 22 min.]

Mom’s Rising. Motherhood Manifesto. Seattle, WA: MomsRising.org, 2008. [DVD, Party cut, 45 min./Director’s cut, 60 min.]

National Women’s Studies Association. Adrienne Rich & Audre Lorde Reading Their Work (recorded June 1988, National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN). (College Park, MD: National Women’s Studies Association, 1988). [DVD, approx. 105 min.]

Orloff, Cliff and Olga Shalygin, Producers. Cut From Different Cloth: Burqas & Beliefs. (Sacramento, CA: Red Door Video Productions, 2005). [DVD, approx. 56 min.]

Presidential Commission on the Status of Women. Women at NIU: Looking Back Over Three Decades. (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University, 2006). [DVD, approx. 90 min.]

Shelton, Angela and Christopher Gallo, Producers. Searching for Angela Shelton. (LosAngeles, CA: Hillhopper Productions, 2004). [DVD, approx. 94 min.]

Wearing Hijab: Uncovering the Myths of Islam in the United States. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities, 2004. [DVD, 34 min.]