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- DirectorTia LessinEmma PildesStarsAbbyJudith ArcanaHeather BoothPolice arrested seven women who were part of a clandestine network. Using code names, blindfolds and safe houses, they built an underground service for women seeking safe, affordable, illegal abortions calling themselves JANE.
- DirectorChristy TurlingtonPregnancy is a death sentence for more than half a million women every year, but their deaths would be preventable if they could obtain the health care they needed. This documentary focuses on the personal stories behind those statistics.
- DirectorJason ReitmanStarsElliot PageMichael CeraJennifer GarnerFaced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes a selfless decision regarding the unborn child.
- DirectorPaul WeitzStarsLily TomlinJulia GarnerMarcia Gay HardenA teenager facing an unplanned pregnancy seeks help from her acerbic grandmother, a woman who is long estranged from her daughter.
- DirectorTracy Droz TragosThis documentary gives women a voice in the choices they've had to make regarding their pregnancies.
- DirectorSara CaseyStarsAbigaille OzreySherry ReneSj MendelsonIn a small North Dakotan town, two young girls, Hayden and Lizzy, hole up in a diner bathroom. After Hayden receives a positive pregnancy test, the two best friends brainstorm how and where to get an abortion, with the nearest Planned Parenthood being 8 hours away, across the "abortion desert."
- DirectorPenny LaneDirector Penny Lane has a dinner party to talk to different women about their abortion experiences.
- DirectorJasmine Deanne AndrewsStarsArlyne SpallaDavid FreerVictoria AndersonA married woman, Natalie, becomes pregnant after she is violently raped by a masked man. Uncertain of the paternity, Natalie's husband, Pat, urges her to have an abortion. Afterwards the couple is left to deal with the emotional aftermath.
- DirectorKate KirtzNell Lundy
- DirectorDorothy FadimanStarsDorothy FadimanAngela ParkerThe film consists of first person stories which reveal the physical, emotional and legal consequences of having or providing an abortion when it was a criminal act.
- DirectorDeeyah KhanStarsDeeyah KhanDeeyah Khan examines the alarming erosion of reproductive rights in the US. Featuring powerful accounts from activists fighting for - and against - women's right to choose.
- DirectorCathy DurbinSally Rose GriffithsStarsAnne RobinsonNeil LyndonNeena Modi50 years after the Abortion Act was passed, Anne Robinson brings together a group of people with conflicting views on the subject to ask if the law is fit for purpose in 2017.
- DirectorBarbara AttieMike AttieJanet GoldwaterAt the Philadelphia abortion helpline, counselors answer non-stop calls from women and teens who cannot afford access to reproductive health care in America.
- DirectorMarion LipschutzRose RosenblattThe Abortion Pill, aka Mifepristone, shows how history repeats itself. Invented in 1982, the film follows the pill's decades long journey to the US market, bringing stunning clarity to today's controversy.
- DirectorStephen FellWill ThompsonStarsJohn BrockhoeftGeorge W. BushGrant CheneyAn unprecedented view of the deep secrets and deep pockets of the pro-life movement.
- StarsSteven CrowderStefan MolyneuxStefan Molyneux stages a mock debate on abortion with Steven Crowder. Crowder takes the pro-life side, Molyneux the pro-choice one.
- DirectorJanice ErlbaumStarsFrank AngeliniShacottha FieldsAlexis LambrightA moving, heartwarming story about female friendships. And abortion.
- DirectorFernando López EscriváIn Chile, where abortion remains illegal and punishable by imprisonment, we follow a group of young activists who put their lives at risk to run an underground abortion hotline.
- DirectorJohn AnkeleAnne MacksoudThis timely and exceptionally thought-provoking documentary moves the contentious debate over abortion out from behind politicized battle lines and into a compassionate and sensitive space, where people with opposing views can meet to better understand the deep concerns of one another. The film weaves together thoughtful and eloquent commentary by activists, legal experts, theologians, seminarians, college students, service providers, and women for whom the decision to terminate or not to terminate a pregnancy has been a formative event in their lives. All bring admirable nuance and insight to a subject often avoided and fraught with prejudice, stereotypes, tension, and fear.
- DirectorKatie RutterStarsJoseph ConnellyKirsten CrockettAmber CullenSeven actors portray twenty-seven real individuals with different and conflicting perspectives on abortion, breaking the cultural silence that surrounds the intense topic. Using only the words spoken in real-life interviews, the portrayed individuals share their professional and personal experiences with one another and create a conversation that illuminates abortion as a political, religious, medical, psychological, and very personal issue.
- StarsHillary ClintonChuck ToddHillary Clinton tells Chuck Todd about her views on abortion.
- DirectorDon Parham
- DirectorCynthia LowenStarsTerrisa BukovinacMarjorie DannenfelserKristan HawkinsThree women lead the charge in their single-minded quest to overturn Roe v. Wade, as they face down forces equally determined to safeguard women's access to safe and legal abortions.