''Defending Our Lives'' is a 1993 American
short documentary film
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...
directed by
Margaret Lazarus,
Stacey Kabat and
Renner Wunderlich. It won an
Oscar
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at the
66th Academy Awards
The 66th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1993 and took place on March 21, 1994, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p. ...
in 1994 for
Documentary Short Subject.
See also
*
Domestic Violence Documentaries
* ''
The Conspiracy of Silence,'' a Public Broadcasting Station (PBS) documentary
* ''
Power and Control: Domestic Violence in America'', a documentary about domestic violence and the community-based
Duluth Model to reduce domestic violence
* ''
Silent Voices,'' a United Kingdom documentary
* ''
Sin by Silence,'' a documentary
References
External links
''Defending Our Lives''at Cambridge Documentary Films
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1993 films
1993 short documentary films
1993 independent films
American short documentary films
Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners
American independent films
Films about domestic violence
Documentary films about violence against women
1990s English-language films
1990s American films
English-language short documentary films
English-language independent films
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