History Lessons

Duration: 65 min
Release date: 2000-06-21
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A montage of film clips and stills calling all lesbians to come out and celebrate who they are. In a trilogy of experimental documentaries, director Barbara Hammer rewrites history by inserting lesbians and lesbian imagery throughout educational films, newsreels, medical footage and more from the past century.

Comedy History Documentary

History Lessons

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