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Prairie Women (1987)
Directed by Barbara Evans
Overview
This film illustrates the struggles of Canadian prairies women to achieve a more just and humane society within the farm movement and at large. During the early 1900s, women on the prairies looked for ways to overcome their isolation. Out of the resulting farm women’s organizations grew a group of women possessing remarkable intellectual abilities, social and cultural awareness, and advanced worldviews.
Length 45 minutes
Actors
Miriam Newhouse | Elan Ross Gibson | Virginia Beckner | Dennis Cyr | Brandi Beckner | David Beckner | Judith Lebane | Juliet Brown | Brenda Prentice | Sandi Gregg | Cori Stent | Meredith Adams | Elizabeth Hoffpauir | Shaun Umscheid