Summary
A fearless sea captain, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, sails a ship through loopholes in international law, providing abortions on the high seas, and leaving in her wake a network of emboldened activists who trust women to handle abortion on their own terms.
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- Friends night
- Teens
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Audiences a little warmer than critics (+7)
Critics 68Audiences 75GoodWatch 59
Metascore68
IMDb7.5
Running time
1 h 30 min
A typical length for documentaries, −6 min on the typical 96
typical 9690Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 139 countries
+129Released
2014
March 9, 2014
12 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Also spoken
DutchPolishPortugueseSpanishSwahiliMade in
- United States
Directing · 1
- Diana Whitten Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Production · 5
- Abigail Disney Executive Producer
- Geralyn White Dreyfous Executive Producer
- Dan Cogan Executive Producer
- Mitchell Block Producer
- Jenny Raskin Co-Executive Producer
Camera · 1
- Thomas Christian Eichtinger Additional Camera
Editing · 1
- Simeon Hutner Editor
Sound · 2
- Heather McIntosh Original Music Composer
- T. Griffin Music
Visual Effects · 3
- Emily Hubley Animation
- Hsin Pei Liu Animation
- Emilie Liu Animation
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