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For the first time in more than 40 years, the groundbreaking feminist documentary Year of the Woman—an, according to The Washington Post, "too radical, too weird and too far ahead of its time for any distributor to touch" film that debuted in 1973 in New York City's then-edgy (now fancy) Greenwich Village, capturing a pivotal moment in American women's history, before Roe v. Wade—is available in wide distribution (thank you, Internet).
The documentary, shot by an all-women crew, "captures the likes of Coretta Scott King, Shirley MacClaine, and other well-known feminist leaders of the '70s" at a time in American history that was both groundbreakingly progressive:
After the film premiere in 1973, it ran for five days and subsequently disappeared for decades—surfacing only occasionally at film festivals around the country.
As of this week, you can catch Year of the Woman exclusively on Vimeo on Demand.