Great Feminist Documentaries Streaming in 2024 [Video]

In a year filled with groundbreaking storytelling, feminist documentaries released this year inspired, educated and sparked vital conversations. Here are some of the best feminist documentaries streaming in 2024.

Directed by Natalie Rae and Angela Patton

Netflix

More than two decades ago, Angela Patton founded Girls for a Change, a nonprofit to support Black girls. Among other innovative initiatives, her organization created the “Date With Dad” program, designed so girls could connect with their incarcerated fathers, and for the men to be reminded that there’s life after prison. Codirected by Patton and Natalie Rae, Daughters, which won an audience award at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, highlights the program, including its special daddy-daughter dance that, in Patton’s words, is a way for the girls “to invite their fathers into their lives on their terms” and spend time in the same space together—a rare opportunity, especially now when many U.S. prisons and jails no longer allow in-person visits.

Daughters …