Women and Girls

  • Women and Girls Lead

    This innovative public media campaign, featuring many Independent Lens films, is designed to celebrate, educate, and activate women, girls, and their allies across the globe to address the challenges of the 21st century.

  • Strong!

    Weightlifter Cheryl Haworth struggles to defend her champion status as her lifetime weightlifting career inches towards its inevitable end.

  • Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai

    The dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai, whose simple act of planting trees grew into a global movement.

  • Color photo circa 1990 of Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo smiling and waving.

    Half the Sky

    Filmed in 10 countries, Half the Sky follows Nicholas Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, and celebrity activists on a journey to tell the stories of inspiring, courageous individuals.

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