Freely accessible databases - women and film
- Dorothy - Global Films about Gender and WomenA user friendly tool that can be useful for identifying films for curriculum purposes. Classic films and older productions take up a small portion of the database, and most of the content consists of films and television shows produced since 2010. International films, those directed by women, and subjects such as work and innovation, LGBTQ communities, survivors of violence, activism, and other key topics in gender and women's studies are most prominent. This free database is provided by the Office of the Gender and Women's Studies Librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP) This link opens in a new window
The Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP) is a digital publication and resource that advances research on the hundreds of women who worked behind the scenes during the silent film era. Always expanding, WFPP publishes original scholarship on women who worked all around the world as directors, producers, screenwriters, editors, and more.
WFPP features short career profiles on single individuals, longer thematic peer-reviewed overview essays, and shorter multimedia posts, all by film scholars, film curators, archivists, and historians. In our published profiles, we cover women who worked in national cinemas across six of the seven continents.
As of November 2022, there are 313 women represented by our published pioneer profiles.
Films in the Library Collection
Texas Women in Politics
Jessica Brannon-Wranosky of Texas A&M University-Commerce, Nancy Baker of Sam Houston State University, and Allison Faber of Texas A&M University discuss women’s political engagement in Texas. Filmed at Texas A&M University-Commerce on October 18, 2016, these historians examine over one hundred years of women actively involved in Texas politics.