HMP Styal: The Mother of All Prisons
Behind the scenes at one of the most unique and controversial prisons in the UK, home to some of Britain's worst female criminals.
Behind the scenes at one of the most unique and controversial prisons in the UK, home to some of Britain's worst female criminals.
This story is based on the historical record of tortures in the Samurai era of Japan..
This story is based on the historical record of tortures in the Samurai era of Japan..
Paris has the unique distinction of possessing women cabbies; the scheme of making them chauffeurs (or, more properly, "chauffeuses") meets with rather disastrous results, as is shown in this extremely funny picture. Business is bad and one of the female cabbies reads an "ad" in the newspaper calling for women chauffeurs, so she goes to the garage and gets the job. Getting into the auto, she starts out and makes for the railway station, where there is a good opportunity to do a record business. Her first passengers load into the machine and, after giving directions to the lady in charge, she starts down the street..
Set in the Edo Era, the film opens with a group of women being convicted of various crimes. The rest of the film is given to graphic depiction of the tortures the women endure as part of their sentences..
At a wealthy man's wake, his mistresses unexpectedly appear and disrupt the peace..
An eccentric, animated documentary on the 'herstory' of some of motion picture's greatest (and often overlooked) contributors..
This informative video course teaches adult women about weapons and self-protection. Also includes other self-defense methods shown by experts in that field. These rules also apply to underage girls and men in the audience..
A woman steps into a large countryside. A man covered in mud appears behind her. The woman desperately tries to escape, but the man catches up with her. She is astonished by the man's words..
She has a marriage intended for money. Her husband invites her for a drive and she follows him deep into the mountains. She is trapped in the car....
A womens' basketball game from 1904, documented..
The film chronicles the lives of ordinary women as well as individuals such as Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Keckley, Frances Willard, and Abigail Scott Duniway through the great 19th century events: industrialization, abolition, the Civil War, westward movement, temperance, and suffrage. For nineteenth century women, quilts were the podium, the pulpit and the judges' gavel, which their society denied them. Their quilts speak the language of abolition, patriotism, politics, social justice, and westward expansion..
A contemporary review of key moments in the biggest women’s sporting event in the World, both on and off the pitch..