Written and directed by Mark Cousins (in case there were any doubt)
Featuring Tilda Swinton, Adjoa Andoh, Jane Fonda and many others
Running time: nearly 7 hours for this first half and about 14 hours in total

Recap of Episodes 1-7

by Fiona Underhill

So - Mark Cousins’s 2011 15-part documentary The Story of Film (shown on TCM in 2013) took us through the entire history of cinema … and barely mentioned women directors… unless they were Leni Riefenstahl. Now he’s back again, to rectify that with a 14-part documentary with the unwieldy title of Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema, in which Cousins has the nerve to start by saying “film history has been sexist by omission.” Surely the little ladies can’t possibly complain this time? Well.