Stories from the Riverside: Women Jailed for Killing Their Abusers Movie Review 1994

Profiles women in prison who killed their abusers. Serving from 25 to 40 years, two women relate their stories of the isolation and fear that kept them with their husbands, and why they felt violence was their only way out. Silver Apple, National Educational Film & Video Festival, 1994; American Psychological Association, 1994; National Women's Studies Association, 1994; Black Maria Film Festival, 1993.

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Available on VHS
Running time 30 minutes.

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Genres

Documentary Films, Violence, Women, Sociology