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  • TV-14
  • PBS
  • Sep 30, 2014
  • 54 m
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  • PBS
  • Sep 30, 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.

Directed By: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady

  • TV-14
  • PBS
  • Sep 30, 2014
  • 54 m
  • TV-14
  • PBS
  • Sep 30, 2014
  • 54 m
Makers: Women Who Make America
S2 • Episode 4
Women in War
Air Date: Sep 30, 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.

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
Women in Space
From PBS - Trace the history of women pioneers in the U.S. space program.
Episode 4 • Sep 30, 2014 • 54 m
Women in War
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

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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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