Makers: Women Who Make America season 2 Women in Comedy - Metacritic

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TV-14
PBS
Aug 31, 2014
54 m

TV-14
PBS
Aug 31, 2014
54 m

Summary The documentary narrated by Meryl Streep tells the story of the women's movement through interviews with women such as Gloria Steinem, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Phyllis Schlafly, Billie Jean King, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Oprah Winfrey, Katie Couric, Ellen DeGeneres, and Hillary Clinton.

Documentary

Directed By: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady

TV-14
PBS
Aug 31, 2014
54 m

TV-14
PBS
Aug 31, 2014
54 m

Makers: Women Who Make America

S2 • Episode 1

Women in Comedy

Air Date: Aug 31, 2014

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Summary The documentary narrated by Meryl Streep tells the story of the women's movement through interviews with women such as Gloria Steinem, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Phyllis Schlafly, Billie Jean King, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Oprah Winfrey, Katie Couric, Ellen DeGeneres, and Hillary Clinton.

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Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Aug 31, 2014 • 54 m

Women in Comedy

From PBS - Track the rise of women in the world of comedy.

Episode 2 • Sep 30, 2014 • 54 m

Women in Hollywood

From PBS - Follow women of showbiz as they influence one of the country's biggest commodities: entertainment.

Episode 3 • Oct 14, 2014 • 54 m

From PBS - Trace the history of women pioneers in the U.S. space program.

Episode 4 • Sep 30, 2014 • 54 m

From PBS - Look at American women's increasing participation in war--from Vietnam to the present--as nurses, soldiers, journalists, diplomats and spies.

Episode 5 • Sep 30, 2014 • 54 m

Women in Business

From PBS - Hear about the exceptional women -- past and present -- who have taken the world of business by storm.

Episode 6 • Oct 31, 2014 • 54 m

Women in Politics

From PBS - View profiles of women in public office who were "firsts" in their fields.

Top Cast

Meryl Streep

Narrator

Gloria Steinem

Self - Feminist Activist

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Self - Co-Founder of Ms. Magazine

Pat Schroeder

Self - First Woman Elected to Congress from Colorado

Alix Kates Schulman

Self - Author

Meg Whitman

Self - Business Executive

Marlo Thomas

Self

Diane English

Self

Hillary Clinton

Self - 67th United States Secretary of State

Erica Jong

Self - Author, Self - Author of Book 'Fear of Flying'

Kathrine Switzer

Self - Boston Marathon Runner, 1967

Susan Douglas

Self - Historian

Sandra Day O'Connor

Self - Retired Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Betty Dodson

Self - Artist

Judy Blume

Self - Author

Sheila Tobias

Self - Historian

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Self - Chairperson of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

F. Carolyn Graglia

Self - Housewife

Ellen Goodman

Self - Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist

Shirley Curry

Self - Conservative Activist

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