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Publisher
National Geographic
Language
English
Description
It has always been thought that all Viking warriors were men, but new discoveries are challenging everything that to be known. Scientist and National Geographic Explorer Ella Al-Shamahi take on a quest, using cutting-edge science and technology to reveal evidence that elite Viking warrior women lived and fought more than 1,000 years ago.
2) Stanleyville
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Language
English
Description
A dissatisfied woman abandons her career and her family when she gets the chance to compete in a bizarre and dangerously flawed contest. The prize: a brand new habanero-orange compact SUV.
5) Ma
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sue Ann, a loner in her quiet Ohio town, is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends. Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting younger friends. She offers the kids the chance to avoid drinking and driving by hanging out in the basement of her home as long as they abide by the house rules. Her hospitality starts to curdle into obsession, and what began as a teenage dream turns into a terrorizing nightmare....
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
For years, rumors of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So, in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to...
11) Hidden figures
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Follows three African American women working as human computers for NASA during the space race of the 1950s and 1960s.
Publisher
Stourwater Pictures
Language
English
Description
Honor Thy Mother is the untold story of 36 Aboriginal women from Canada and Native women from tribes in Washington and Alaska who migrated to Bainbridge Island, the traditional territory of the Suquamish people, in the early 1940s. They came, some still in their teens, to pick berries for Japanese American farmers. Many, just released from the Indian Residential Schools, fell in love in the strawberry fields and married Filipino immigrants. Despite...
13) Honeyland
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
Türkçe
Description
Follows Hatidze Muratova, the last female beehunter in Europe, who must save the bees and return natural balance when a family of beekeepers invade the land and threaten her livelihood.
14) Casa Susanna
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Description
In the 1950s and '60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a modest house in the Catskills region of New York. Known as Casa Susanna, the house provided a safe place for them to express their true selves and live for a few days as they had always dreamed of dressing as women without fear of being incarcerated or institutionalized for their self-expression. Told through the memories of those whose visits...
15) Stoker
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Language
English
Description
"After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, whom she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him"-- IMDb.
16) Tammy
Publisher
New Line Productions, Inc
Language
English
Description
After losing her job and finding out that her husband has been disloyal, a woman goes out on a road trip with her adventurous grandmother.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Description
Evelyn Wang, a flustered immigrant mother, is contacted from a parallel universe and told that only she can save the world. The unlikely hero must learn to channel her newfound powers and fight through the splintering timelines of the multiverse to save her home, her family, and herself in this big-hearted and irreverent adventure.
19) The Breadwinner
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
In 2001, Afghanistan is under the control of the Taliban. When her father is captured, a determined young girl disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
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