Bell Global’s Book & Film Corner!
Our Book & Film Recommendations
Storytelling is very beautiful and powerful. It is one of the many ways necessary to advance and protect the human rights and dignity of women and girls globally.
We have compiled a list of books and films for anyone interested in learning more about the unique and often challenging lived experiences of women and girls around the world.
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Quote on storytelling by Khaled Hosseini with illustrated books and torn paper.
Nonfiction
Films and Documentaries
Nonfiction
- I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition). - by Malala Yousafzai with Patricia McCormick
- We Should All Be Feminists - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Left to Tell - by Immaculee Ilibagzia
- Lakota Woman - by Mary Brave Bird and Richard Erdoes
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Dr. Maya Angelou
- Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism - bell hooks
- Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - Audre Lorde
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Jacobs
- Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells - Ida B. Wells
Fiction
Films and Documentaries
Nonfiction
- Half of a Yellow Sun - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- A Raisin in the Sun - by Lorraine Hansberry
- Kindred - by Octavia Butler
- Betty Before X - by Ilyasah
- Shabazz and Renee Watson
- Beloved - by Toni Morrison
- For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf - by Ntozake Shange
- The Street - by Ann Petry
- A Thousand Splendid Suns - by Khaled Hosseini
- The Joy Luck Club - by Amy Tan
- Their Eyes Were Watching God - by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Blacker the Berry - by Wallace Thurman
- Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted - by Frances E.W. Harper
Films and Documentaries
Films and Documentaries
Films and Documentaries
- Mama Africa - The Story of Miriam Makeba - by Mika Kaurismaki
- What Happened, Miss Simone? - by Liz Garbus
- 4 Little Girls - by Spike Lee
- The Rape of Recy Taylor - by Nancy Buirski
- Dark Girls - by D. Channsin Berry and Bill Duke
- Girl Rising - by Richard E. Robbins
- On the Basis of Sex - by Mimi Leder
- Hidden Figures - by Theodore Melfi
- The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson - by David France
- Queen of Katwe - by Mira Nair
- The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency HBO Series based on the books by Alexander McCall Smith