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- 2020
- TV-14
- Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
- 1 h 22 m
- 2020
- TV-14
- Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
- 1 h 22 m
Summary When an unlikely duo discovers a pattern of illegal sterilizations in women's prisons, they wage a near impossible battle against the Department of Corrections.
Directed By: Erika Cohn
- 2020
- TV-14
- Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
- 1 h 22 m
- 2020
- TV-14
- Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
- 1 h 22 m
Belly of the Beast
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Summary When an unlikely duo discovers a pattern of illegal sterilizations in women's prisons, they wage a near impossible battle against the Department of Corrections.
Directed By: Erika Cohn
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Erika Cohn’s documentary Belly of the Beast, which depicts the fight to ban non-consensual sterilizations performed on female prisoners in California, is at once a thrilling legal drama and heartbreaking depiction of devastating human rights violations that you can’t imagine happening in the 21st century.
Belly of the Beast does not reach for happy endings and is most absorbing in its thesis, which makes the stakes of this battle against human rights violations loud and clear.
The film, like the subject matter, remains bleak. For every win, there are losses. That’s not to say it’s not worth watching. It is. But it only prepares us for the fight still to come.
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Production Company
Black Public Media,
Fork Films,
ITVS International,
Idle Wild Films,
Tribeca Film Institute
Release Date Oct 16, 2020
Duration 1 h 22 m
Rating TV-14
Genres
Awards
News & Documentary Emmy Awards
• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations
Social Impact Media Awards, US
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Heartland International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
