During WW 2 a group of white women face sexism on a baseball team while a Black woman ballplayer is rejected because of her race.
Writing With Fire (2022)
Dalit female journalists staffing a newspaper in northern India are often the only ones brave enough to advocate the rights of raped women & seek improved conditions for villagers.
The Queen’s Gambit (2020)
The inspiring story of an orphan girl who becomes a chess prodigy, fighting against men who think a woman is an interloper.
What the Constitution Means to Me (2020)
In this filmed stage play Heidi Schreck shares her personal and family history in relationship to the use and misuse of the US Constitution from its beginnings, esp. in regard to women and gays.
Self Made: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker (2020)
This 4-part Neflix series chronicles the rise of Madame C.J. Walker from laundress to sales woman to the head of a national cosmetics business.
Red Joan (2019)
Judi Dench is such a capable and beloved actress that it is understandable if viewers root for her octogenarian character Joan Stanley (played by Sophie Cookson in the flashbacks to Joan’s younger days) when she photographs documents from her atomic research lab and passes them on to the Soviets in the 40s and 50s. When …