Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema

About Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema

As told through clips from 183 female directors, this epic history of the cinema focuses on women's integral role in the development of film art. Using almost a thousand film extracts from thirteen decades and five continents, Mark Cousins asks how films are made, shot and edited; how stories are shaped and how movies depict life, love, politics, humour and death, all through the compelling lens o…

BFI Player's Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema is a documentary series. Tilda Swinton leads the cast as Narrator (voice), Adjoa Andoh as Narrator (voice), Jane Fonda as Narrator (voice), and Sharmila Tagore as Narrator (voice).

It ran for one season of 14 episodes between September 2018 and May 2020.

Members will find filmmaking, cinema history, equality, and history in it. It streams on DocuramaFilms Amazon Channel and Fandor Amazon Channel in the United States.

The Movies That Made Us, James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction, and The American Revolution make useful companions to Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema, all filed under documentary.