Women Make Film: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

This epic, five years in the making, is made up of 14 episodes narrated by Tilda Swinton, Jane Fonda, Adjoa Andoh, Sharmila Tagore, Kerry Fox, Thandie Newton and Debra Winger. Women Make Film follows in the footsteps of Mark Cousins' The Story of Film: An Odyssey, to give us a guided tour of the art and craft of the movies. Using almost a thousand film extracts from thirteen decades and five continents, 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 of some of the world's greatest directors – all of them women.

Series details

• Title: Women Make Film
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Genres: History
• Premiere date: 2020-09-01
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: TCM
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 49871
• IMDb ID: tt8819192
• TVDB ID: 378438

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2020-09-01; final listed air date 2020-12-01; episode order: 14.

Source and licence

Adapted from Women Make Film on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.