Belly of the Beast

Visually, the first half of the film provides eye-catching contrasts - expansive green fields and semi-trucks, bright days and dark early mornings, inside versus outside.

At once a thrilling legal drama and heartbreaking depiction of devastating human rights violations that you can't imagine happening in the 21st century.

"Belly of the Beast" does not reach for happy endings and is most absorbing in its thesis, which makes the stakes of this battle against human rights violations loud and clear.

Inside the belly of documentarian Erika Cohn's Beast lurks a monstrosity more appalling than horror fiction.

Cohn does a great job of highlighted a horrendous injustice, demonstrating how this exploitation takes place and following the brave women campaigning for change.

The 82-minute film sheds light on the brutality of mass incarceration, a symptom of the vast social inequality in America.

Belly of the Beast is an effective introduction to a current issue many viewers would imagine was consigned to the past.

Incredibly, such programs in the state were perfectly legal until 1979...

No one should watch this without becoming exercised over racist exploitation of eugenics.

Tackles a tough subject - the forced sterilization of women inmates at a California prison - with journalistic fire and sensitive artistry.