Check out these related films available in the Reed film and video library!

  • Step by step: building a feminist movement, 58 min, 1998.
    Traces the gradual emergence of contemporary feminism through the life stories of eight women who helped make it happen from 1941 to 1977

  • Eyes on the prize: America's civil rights years, 1954-1965
    6-tape history of the civil rights movement in the United States. Uses archival footage and interviews with participants in the movement, PBS 1986-7


  • Killing Us Softly Series
    This series of films developed over the past 25 years in response to Jean Kilbourne's spearhead 1979 film critiquing advertising images of women and femininity. Kilbourne herself has collaborated in various updating sequels, and she has a new book out (2002). Reed owns:

    Killing Us Softly. Jean Kilbourne, 1979 [on order].

    Still Killing us Softly: advertising's image of women
    / a film by Jean Kilbourne and Cambridge Documentary Films ; producer & director, Margaret Lazarus
    Publication Cambridge, Mass. : Cambridge Documentary Films, c1987

    Killing us Softly 3: advertising's image of women / Media Education Foundation
    Publication Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, c2000 ;

    The Strength to Resist: Beyond Killing Us Softly, 2000 (30 min)
    Features Gloria Steinem and "Ask Amy" feminist writer Amy Richards, co-author of the book The Feminist Manifesta.