Women - for America, for the World
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Women - for America, for the World is a 1986 short documentary film
directed by Vivienne Verdon-Roe about women anti-nuclear activists. It won an Academy Award in 1987
for Documentary Short Subject
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Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
directed by Vivienne Verdon-Roe about women anti-nuclear activists. It won an Academy Award in 1987
59th Academy Awards
The 59th Academy Awards were presented March 30, 1987 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn, and Paul Hogan....
for Documentary Short Subject
Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject
This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...
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Cast
- Joanne WoodwardJoanne WoodwardJoanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward is an American actress, television and theatrical producer, and widow of Paul Newman...
- Herself - Jean Shinoda BolenJean Shinoda BolenJean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. is a psychiatrist and author. Bolen has written several books on the archetypal psychology of women and men in the development of spirituality, and is one of the women featured in the 1986 film Women - for America, for the World and 1989 National Film Board of Canada...
- Herself - Betty Bumpers - Herself
- Shirley ChisholmShirley ChisholmShirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was an American politician, educator, and author. She was a Congresswoman, representing New York's 12th Congressional District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1968, she became the first black woman elected to Congress...
- Herself - Allene Cottier - Herself
- Mary Dent Crisp - Herself
- Geraldine A. Ferraro - Herself (voice) (as Geraldine Ferraro)
- Ellen GoodmanEllen GoodmanEllen Goodman is an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist.- Career :Goodman worked as a researcher and reporter for Newsweek magazine between 1963 and 1965, and has worked as an associate editor at the Boston Globe since 1967.In 1998, Goodman received the Elijah...
- Herself - Elisabeth Holtzman - Herself (as Elizabeth Holtzman)
- Vera Kistiakowsky - Herself
- Pat Schroeder - Herself (as Patricia Schroeder)