Backroom Troubles
Women talk about the circumstances that drove them to seek illegal abortions and the often traumatic result. Interwoven with historical photographs and newsreel footage, the stories expose how the reality of women's lives were counterposed to what was socially and morally expected of them.
Cast
Videos
Storyline
Women talk about the circumstances that drove them to seek illegal abortions and the often traumatic result. Interwoven with historical photographs and newsreel footage, the stories expose how the reality of women's lives were counterposed to what was socially and morally expected of them.
Recommended
Lake of Fire
2006
Maternal Instinct
2026
The Red Pill
2016
A Plastic Ocean
2016
Tricked: The Documentary
2013
Heart of a Dog
2015
One Child Nation
2019
In the Realms of the Unreal
2004
Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers
2025
Love, Marilyn
2013
My Mom Jayne
2025
To Be Takei
2014
4 Little Girls
1997
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story
2025
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me
2023
Naqoyqatsi
2002
28 Up
1984
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
2022
Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
2018
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends
2019
More Like This
Father, Son and Holy War
1994
Stories of A
1974
Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day
2021
Fearlessli
2025
The Dream of a Horse
2022
The Devil Is Busy
2024
Served Like a Girl
2017
Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web
2017
Champions Factory: New Zealand's Black Blood
2015
Richard Wotton: Moments Later
2022
Skin Pics
1980
Quest for the Ring
2001
The Conductor
2022
Kinleith '80
1983
Mom's Letter
2024
Girls Life Is Trembling
2009
Children of the Decree
2005
She the People: Votes for Women
2020
In the Theatre of the Gogs
2021
Atatürk, Father of Modern Turkey
2023