The Best Women's Rights Documentaries

World Affairs & Investigations - 37 free documentaries about women's rights.

Start with Forced Into Motherhood (57 min, ENDEVR), then Fly With Me (114 min, American Experience). All 37 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on women's rights is I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai.

• Forced Into Motherhood | The Land of the Not So Free (57 min, ENDEVR)
• Fly With Me (114 min, American Experience)
• Why We Protest: Aurat March (23 min, VICE)
• Inside One of the Last Abortion Clinics in Alabama (21 min, VICE)
• Jiyan: Story Of A Female Guerilla Fighter (52 min, Real Stories)
• The Pankhurst Sisters: How The Suffragettes Changed The World | A Tale Of Two Sisters (44 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• Meet the Female Ganjapreneurs | WEEDIQUETTE (42 min, VICE)
• The Life Of A Suffragette | Emmeline Pankhurst: The Making Of A Militant (51 min, Absolute History)
• The Kurdish Female Guerrillas Fighting ISIS (86 min, Real Stories)
• The Abortion Divide (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Indian Child Brides: The Unseen Cyclone Victims, And Those Fighting For Them | Women Of The Wetlands (45 min, CNA Insider)
• Backstreet Abortions in the Philippines: Year of Mercy (26 min, VICE)
• Domestic Violence Cases Are Rising In Singapore: What Can Be Done? | Talking Point (42 min, CNA Insider)
• 1st Asian Female Footballer In Borussia Dortmund: How I Train To Become A Pro | On The Red Dot (23 min, CNA Insider)
• Gender War In South Korea: Why The Backlash Against Feminism? | Insight (46 min, CNA Insider)
• How Roe v. Wade Came Under Attack Before | The Last Abortion Clinic (55 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• 'Our America: A Queen's Journey' celebrates fearless females for National Geographic's 'Queens' (22 min, National Geographic)
• Russia's Hidden Domestic Violence Crisis (50 min, Real Stories)
• One Of Singapore's Few Female Brick Artists: "I'm A Sh*t Mum" | Inside Xylvie’s World of Brick Art (47 min, CNA Insider)
• Call Me Dad: Breaking the Cycle of Domestic Violence (80 min, Real Stories)
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: identity, feminism and honest conversations (36 min, The Economist)
• Afghan Women's Rights & Floating Armories (VICE on HBO: Season 4, Episode 8) (31 min, VICE)
• Heroines of the Savannah - Female Leadership in the Wild (52 min, Free Documentary - Nature)
• Solving The Female Prisoner Problem? Convicts with Cameras (78 min, Real Stories)
• I Am Both | Intersex People: Born Between Male and Female (60 min, ENDEVR)
• Gender Pay Gap in the Art Market | Investment or Vanity (49 min, Moconomy)
• Black Women and the Suffrage Movement | 100 Years After Women's Suffrage (59 min, National Geographic)
• Continuing the Fight for Political Representation | 100 Years After Women's Suffrage (58 min, National Geographic)
• Medical Misogyny: Why Are Women Overlooked In Healthcare Systems Globally? (23 min, CNA Insider)
• Men at War - Inside Britain's Anti-Feminist Movement | UK Extreme 2015 (45 min, ENDEVR)
• Beauty Queen For Human Rights | Free Documentaries (66 min, Moconomy)
• The Abortion Hotline (57 min, Real Stories)
• Forbidden abortion in Poland (28 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Berlinale Talents: female filmmakers struggle for success (26 min, DW Documentary)
• Indonesia's Motorbike Stunt Daredevils Defying Tradition | The Female Death Riders (47 min, CNA Insider)
• Recruiting Women for Office: Why Is it Still Necessary? | 100 Years After Women's Suffrage (67 min, National Geographic)
• The Female Athletes Changing The Face Of Women's Sport | Possibilities (47 min, CNA Insider)

Top-Rated Books About Women's Rights

1. I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai (4.3/5) - View on Amazon
2. Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof (4.4/5) - View on Amazon
3. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
4. Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez (4.5/5) - View on Amazon
5. Mujeres, Raza Y Clase (Cuestiones De Antagonismo) by Angela Y. Davis (4.9/5) - View on Amazon
6. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (3.6/5) - View on Amazon
7. Our bodies, ourselves by Boston Women's Health Book Collective - View on Amazon
8. The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates (4.7/5) - View on Amazon
9. Ain't I a Woman by bell hooks - View on Amazon
10. Backlash by Susan Faludi - View on Amazon
11. Sisterhood is Powerful by Robin Morgan - View on Amazon
12. The history of doing by Radha Kumar - View on Amazon