Documentary - Women You Should Know®

Girl Rising: When We Educate Girls, We Can Change The World [VIDEO]

wyskJanuary 17, 2013

Girl Rising is a feature-length film at the center of a global action campaign for girls' education. Around the world, millions of girls face barriers to education that boys do not. And, yet, when you educate a girl, you can break cycles of poverty in just one generation. ...

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Buffalo Girls: An Inside Look At The Underground World of Child Boxers

wyskDecember 7, 2012

Buffalo Girls takes a look at Thailand’s underground world of child boxers, telling the heartbreaking story of 8-year-old-girls, Stam and Pet, both professional Muay Thai prizefighters. ...

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Women Talk: 10 Questions with Easkey Britton… Making Waves Of Change

wyskOctober 10, 2012

This past September, Easkey Britton, 26, traveled to Iran to become the first women to surf Iranian waves, bringing hope and inspiration to women and girls a world away....

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What’s A Girl Doing Here?

wyskSeptember 12, 2012

Of the 46,000 taxi sedans, vans and S.U.V.'s on the streets of New York, only about 170 of them are driven by women. Photographer, videographer, documentary filmmaker, and video production youth educator, Diana Diroy went on a mission to find them....

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Fighting Her Way To Gold

wyskJuly 26, 2012

Marlen Esparza will be making history competing in women's boxing for the first time as an Olympic event. ...

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Pro Choice… It’s Not What You Think

wyskJune 26, 2012

Recently, when we watched the OWN Network's Lisa Ling show Our America - Brides of Christ episode, our eyes were opened to a world of women making choices that defy the vast opportunities our modern world offers us, giving it all up in the name of God....

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Meet Jessica Cox… You’ll Never Say “I Can’t” Again

wyskJune 15, 2012

Video preview of Rightfooted, an inspiring documentary about 29-year-old Jessica Cox who was born without arms as the result of a rare birth defect. Despite suffering self-esteem issues early on and physical challenges throughout her life, Jessica found a way to thrive by using mental agility, physical flexibility and her feet....

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Miss Representation

wyskNovember 18, 2011

Jennifer Siebel Newsom's documentary Miss Representation premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The film uncovers how American mainstream media's limited and disparaging portrayals of women are spoon feeding yet another generation of America's youth the unfortunate concept that a woman's primary value lay in her youth, beauty and sexuality - and not in her capacity as a leader....

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Beyond Bravery: Soledad O’Brien Documentary Profiles Women First Responders of 9/11

wyskSeptember 9, 2011

Women You Should Know would like to thank CNN anchor and special correspondent, Soledad O’Brien, for doing what so few media outlets did over the last decade and what the large majority are still not doing today, ten years later – profiling the women First Responders of 9/11....

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