Saudi Women's Driving School (2019): Official Trailer | HBO

Centered around The Saudi Driving School – said to be the world's largest driving school, which caters exclusively to women – in the capital city of Riyadh, Saudi Women’s Driving School draws on unprecedented access to a number of Saudi women as they embrace a new way of life and the freedom that comes from being behind the wheel.

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Saudi Women's Driving School (2019): Official Trailer | HBO

[JesseJamesIV]

I am so happy for every single woman driving today in Riyadh.
Drive with honor and respect. Follow your heart on the road of life and control your destiny!

[Buenomars]

"Damn -robots- women gonna take our jobs!"

[Bellroysg]

Jeez, the middle east is such a backwater

[ummhussain]

I’m so sorry but I don’t think driving is an ambition, it is rather a necessity of life.

[emiliobello]

Looks like a cool documentary. How can I watch if I don’t have HBO?

[ahmedelkory]

All the women who publicly advocated for the women's right to drive in KSA, are now behind bars, this doc is a propaganda not watching it

[SuburbanoidMisfit]

Saudi is still a laughingstock of the world and considered a nightmare of human rights violations. Who has this place as a top 10 dream vacation spot, or place they'd like to expat to? I think a lot of people only go because the military or companies they work for send them there on a contract. Every video I have seen of woman workers, teachers, etc living in Saudi made it clear that they couldn't wait for their term to be done so they could leave and go home. People dislike many countries for many reasons, but Saudi seems to be a special kind of crazy. It wants to be modern, but it also wants to remain backwards and tribal. If it wasn't for all the oil, the place would be a wasteland more than likely.

[jasmine]

I am here in Usa. I have so many friends from Saudi especially women that come to USA to study. I even teach them how to drive car. Saudi women here are very independent and smart! They left their Country and try to get education here. They are very hard working students studying Master an Phd. I am very proud of them

[Jungle_Noodle]

Do they know that it has nothing to do with equality that they are allowed to drive?

[hamadalketbi]

this brings a tear to my eye, so proud of you saudi!

[Sami-gnsm]

This is such a stupid ban that women cannot drive..

This is due to Saudi culture not Islam.... Islam provides equality for both women and men under certain limitations... But not this type of limitations 😝😝😝...

[yjk]

While in the U.S. we are getting ready to stop driving with driverless vehicles.

[ivalinapasse]

Yeah Yeah Awesome Girls Driving ain't it Fun!!!! My Happy Place!!!

[setyourhandle.]

I think there are many parts are fake in this documentary. A woman can't talk like that with her face on camera in Saud Arabia, they will get prisoned for this...

[maazkalim]

Wow...

What a drama!

Apparently, the respected documentarians even tasked their location-scout that since it's commissioned by a for-profit US TV "network", it has to include something _relatable_ like "the Utah of Saudi Arabia". And I bet we're expected to take it at their word that it's somewhere in the metropolitan-region of Riyadh*. My, my.. Thankfully, it's just a one-off documentary — rather a documentary-series or even a docudrama. Else, poor things would've been obligated to find a way to shoehorn at least one white cismale dude, preferably of Anglo-Saxon origin.


*Not to be confused with _mintaqah_, which is the Saudi counterpart of a province, or state. Comparable with the "countries"/"nations" of another still-existing Kingdom, the United Kingdom — as well.

[mattias]

This is awesome up next remove the jihabs you just as good of a Muslim without it if a women where a jihab why dont men where them to ? 💃💃💃❤❤❤

[eitkoml]

Joke's on you Saudi women. Soon robots will do all of the driving and your activism will have been for nothing.

[b]

I don't know why people take it that way because I don't see it as worth it. Not big deal, Since I am a Saudi girl, I have never suffered from this. And a lot like me and looking at my country in especially my city still girls go with drivers as well as I although my family did not prevent me from driving so I feel comfortable without it and the fact that many women in other countries do not have their own cars and they use the metro and bus etc. So is this worth? !! haha

[CrazyMunky]

Crazy! All women driving?! This sounds more dangerous than ice road truckers.