Women, War & Peace Film Screening: The War We Are Living

Watch all 5 films in the Women, War & Peace series on PBS SoCal, or with your community at Center for Living Peace. Dates listed below!

The War We Are Living tells the story of Clemencia Carabali and Francia Marquez, part of a powerful network of female leaders who found that in wartime women can organize more freely than men. As they defy paramilitary death threats and insist on staying on their land, Carabali and Marquez are standing up for a generation of Colombians who have been terrorized and forcibly displaced as a deliberate strategy of war. If they lose the battle, they and thousands of their neighbors will join Colombia’s 4 million people – most of them women and children – who have been uprooted from their homes and livelihoods. Narrated by Alfre Woodard.

Women, War & Peace is a five-part PBS television series challenging the conventional wisdom that war and peace are men's domain. The series reveals how the post-Cold War proliferation of small arms has changed the landscape of war, with women becoming primary targets and suffering unprecedented casualties. Yet they are simultaneously emerging as necessary partners in brokering lasting peace and as leaders in forging new international laws governing conflict. Women, War & Peace spotlights the stories of women in conflict zones from Bosnia to Afghanistan, and Colombia to Liberia, placing women at the center of an urgent dialogue about conflict and security and reframing our understanding of modern warfare.

Featuring narrators Matt Damon, Tilda Swinton, Geena Davis, and Alfre Woodard, Women, War & Peace is a comprehensive global media initiative on the roles of women in war and peace. Women, War & Peace is a co-production of THIRTEEN and Fork Films.

Join us for casual and informal screenings of these groundbreaking documentaries.

The Filmmakers

Abigail Disney, Executive Producer

Gini Reticker, Executive Producer

Pamela Hogan, Executive Producer

The Films

Peace Unveiled

I Came to Testify

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

The War We Are Living

War Redefined