Directed by Lee Grant • 1981 • United States
Starring Lee Grant
Academy Award–winning actor and documentary filmmaker Lee Grant follows eight women in America’s heartland who are driven by gender discrimination to picket the bank where they work in the dead of a Minnesota winter. Risking jobs, friends, family, and their place in the community, the Willmar 8 began the longest bank strike in American history in a dramatic attempt to assert their own equality and self-worth.
Directed by Lee Grant • 1983 • United States
Starring Lee Grant, Leslie Van Houten
This empathetic, nonjudgmental documentary explores life inside several women’s prisons across the United States and the circumstances that led to the incarceration of various inmates—many of whom resorted to viol...
Directed by Lee Grant • 1985 • United States
Starring Christine Jorgensen, Steve Dain, Monica Lynn B.
Radically ahead of its time in its candor and compassion, this groundbreaking documentary follows a group of transgender individuals struggling to make their way in every strata of 1980s America...
Directed by Lee Grant • 1986 • United States
Starring Lee Grant
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Lee Grant’s searing and sobering critique of Reagan-era economic policies takes viewers from America’s heartland, where farms that have fed the U.S. for a century are being d...
