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The Janes (2022)97 minDocumentaryRating 60/100

They called themselves "Jane" -- seven women who built an underground network for women seeking safe, affordable, illegal abortions in 1970s Chicago. More timely than ever, this documentary offers first-hand accounts of these unlikely outlaws who risked everything in the pre-Roe v. Wade era, a time when abortion was a crime in most states.

Cast: Heather Booth, Judith Arcana, Marie Leaner, Diane Stevens, Eleanor Oliver, Martin Luther King Jr., Walter Cronkite

Director: Emma Pildes, Tia Lessin