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Women, Sport, and Country (Ages 15-17)

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This playlist explores the relationships between women, sport and nationhood. Use these films to encourage discussion around the role of women in relationship to professional and amateur sport, but also to discuss the way their roles represent and contextualize important social and historical issues related to national identities. Films in This Playlist Include Shooting Stars The Boxing Girls of Kabul Baseball Girls Standing on the Line

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Women, Sport, and Country (Ages 15-17)

This playlist explores the relationships between women, sport and nationhood. Use these films to encourage discussion around the role of women in relationship to professional and amateur sport, but also to discuss the way their roles represent and contextualize important social and historical issues related to national identities.

Films in This Playlist Include
Shooting Stars
The Boxing Girls of Kabul
Baseball Girls
Standing on the Line

Playlist

  • The Boxing Girls of Kabul
    The Boxing Girls of Kabul
    Ariel Nasr 2011 52 min

    In this feature documentary, a remarkable group of young Afghan women dream of representing their country as boxers at the 2012 Olympics, embarking on a journey of both personal and political transformation.

  • Baseball Girls
    Baseball Girls
    Lois Siegel 1995 1 h 20 min

    This feature documentary uses animation, archival stills and live-action footage to detail the history of women's participation in the largely male-dominated world of baseball and softball. Zany and affectionate, it features 7-year-olds learning the rules and skills of the game and 50-year-olds hitting home runs, from the early days of the Bloomer Girls to the heyday of the Colorado Silver Bullets.

  • Shooting Stars
    Shooting Stars
    Allan Stein 1987 49 min

    This documentary uses frequent dramatic re-enactments to trace the tale of the Edmonton Grads women's basketball team, which was formed in 1915 and disbanded in 1940. During that time, the team was Canadian Champion (1922-1940), North American Champion (1923-1940), and World Champion (1924-1940). Their phenomenal record of 502 wins and 20 losses remains unrivalled by any team in any sport. Shooting Stars is a thorough historical look at female athletes in an era when sports were a man’s game.

  • Standing on the Line
    Standing on the Line
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    Paul Émile d'Entremont 2018 1 h 20 min

    For some athletes, the pressure to perform is compounded by the further strain of deciding whether or not to come out of the closet.