
Over the Kitchen Table
The shocking untold story of the Battered Women's Movement.
After years of being silenced through violent opposition, Norma Burton, one of the key founders of the first women’s shelter in Tulsa, OK, tells an untold story of the battered women's movement. In the late 1970s and early 1980’s LGBTQ, BIPOC, and formerly abused women across the US gathered in secret to create a grassroots movement that became today's National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, despite persecution and death threats. Norma recounts to her daughter, director Nisha Burton, how she and her collaborators alerted the police of rising cases of domestic violence and ultimately decided to take matters into their own hands by conducting support gatherings in their homes around the kitchen table. These meetings led to the founding of the first battered women’s shelter in Tulsa, OK in 1975. The years that followed were filled with harassment and verbal and physical attacks on Norma and fellow organizers, but today these courageous advocates continue to support the movement.
0More Like This

You Will Be a Man
2018

Chris Brown: A History of Violence
2024

The Fire That Took Her
2022

Pussy Riot: Rage Against Putin
2023

The Perfect Victim
2012

Le deuxième sexe : Sur les traces de Simone de Beauvoir
2025

Maso and Miso Go Boating
1976

Woman, Life, Freedom: An Iranian Revolution
2023

This Is Me…Now
2024

Abrigos… Até Quando?
2007

Violently in Love
2017

Black Traces of Childhood
2025

Dear Dad
2024

Momsy
2018

Girls' War
2016

Summer of revolution
2022
Father to Son
2004

Untold: Deal with the Devil
2021

What Happened, Miss Simone?
2015

Les Scandaleuses
2024