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  • Women and Girls Lead proudly presents six new films coming this season to PBS.
    Women and Girls Lead Presents

    Women and Girls Lead proudly presents six new films coming this season to PBS.

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  • The most shocking cover up in the United States military is not what you would expect.
    The Invisible War

    The most shocking cover up in the United States military is not what you would expect.

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  • In India, children may be the best agents of change.
    The Revolutionary Optimists

    In India, children may be the best agents of change.

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  • Organizing women to plant trees became an act of political resistance in Kenya.
    Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai

    Organizing women to plant trees became an act of political resistance in Kenya.

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  • Portrait of a woman struggling between saving her family and risking it all to help her Indian community and abused women.
    Kind Hearted Woman

    Portrait of a woman struggling between saving her family and risking it all to help her Indian community and abused women.

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  • When women take their place at the peace table they often tip the balance.
    Women, War & Peace

    When women take their place at the peace table they often tip the balance.

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  • Follow the evolution of America's favorite superheroine.
    Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines

    Follow the evolution of America's favorite superheroine.

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  • Watch the series trailer, premiering October 1 & 2 on Independent Lens.
    Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

    Watch the series trailer, premiering October 1 & 2 on Independent Lens.

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  • The sky's the limit for the female solar engineering students at India's Barefoot College.
    Solar Mamas

    The sky's the limit for the female solar engineering students at India's Barefoot College.

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  • Is it worse to be born poor than to die poor?
    Welcome to the World

    Is it worse to be born poor than to die poor?

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Film Collection

Women and Girls Lead offers a collection of films by prominent independent filmmakers. These films focus on women who are working to transform their lives, their communities, and the world. Films will be added throughout the life of the campaign.
Explore the full list of films

Landmark Mini-Series on Public Television

Half the Sky

by Maro Chermayeff, Jamie Gordon, and Mikaela Beardsley

This multi-platform project is centered around a four-hour PBS primetime national and international broadcast event based on Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's widely acclaimed book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.

Premiered on Independent Lens October 1 and 2, 2012

Kind Hearted Woman

by David Sutherland

In a special two-part series, acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland creates an unforgettable portrait of Robin Charboneau, a 32-year-old divorced single mother and Oglala Sioux woman living on North Dakota’s Spirit Lake Reservation.

A co-presentation by Independent Lens and FRONTLINE, premiered April 1

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Women, War & Peace

by Abigail Disney, Gini Reticker, and Pamela Hogan

Women, War & Peace, a five-part PBS mini-series, is a global media initiative on the roles of women in peace and conflict.

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Upcoming Public Television Broadcasts

The Invisible War

by Kirby Dick

The Invisible War exposes one of the United States's most shameful and best-kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the military. Today, a female soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire.

Premiering on Independent Lens May 13, 2013

Rebel

by Maria Agui Carter

A detective story about Loreta Janeta Velazquez, a Cuban woman from New Orleans, who served as a soldier and secret agent during the American Civil War.

Premiering on Voces May 24, 2013

The Revolutionary Optimists

by Nicole Newnham and Maren Grainger-Monsen

Amlan Ganguly, a lawyer-turned social entrepreneur, has sewn hope in the poorest neighborhoods of Calcutta by empowering children to become leaders in improving health, health, transforming their communities for the better.

Premiering on Independent Lens June 17, 2013

Invoking Justice

by Deepa Dhanraj

Muslim women from a small town in South India deliver justice in their own courts, posing a radical challenge to their traditional Muslim community and clergy

Premiering on Global Voices July 14, 2013

Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai

by Lisa Merton and Alan Dater

The dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai, whose simple act of planting trees grew into a global movement.

Broadcasting on Global Voices August 18, 2013

Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth

by Pratibha Parmar

Writer and human-rights activist Alice Walker’s story is an inspiring personal journey of a life lived with passionate commitment to truth and justice – ideals that sprang from a background of poverty and violent racism.

Premiering on American Masters Fall 2013

Recent Public Television Broadcasts

Bhutto

by Duane Baughman

An intimate look at one of the most fascinating and significant world leaders of our time, Benazir Bhutto.

Chahinaz: What Rights for Women?

by Samia Chala and Patrice Barrat

Through her curiosity and self-discovery, Chahinaz, a 20-year-old Algerian student, begins to wonder what life is like for women in other Muslim countries and around the world.

Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock

by Sharon La Cruise

A look at the life of African American political activist and newspaper publisher Daisy Bates.

The Day My God Died

by Andrew Levine and Geralyn Dreyfous

This unforgettable examination of the growing plague of sex slavery weaves footage from Bombay brothels with stories of young girls whose lives have been shattered by the child sex trade.

Granito

by Pamela Yates, Peter Kinoy, and Paco de Onís

Discover how a 26-year-old documentary became vital forensic evidence in the trial of a dictator for human-rights abuses.

I Was Worth 50 Sheep

by Nima Sarvestani

Sabere was just 10 years old when she was sold to a man in his fifties. For the next six years she was both slave and wife, miscarrying four times. Now 16, she is fighting for her freedom.

The Interrupters

by Steve James

A look at a group of men and women — most of them former gang leaders and ex-cons — that are trying to "interrupt" shootings and protect their communities from the violence they once employed.

Lioness

by Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers

An intimate look at war through the eyes of women on the front lines and the U.S. military policy that bans them from combat.

Motherland Afghanistan

by Catherine Gund, Sedika Mojadidi, and Jenny Raskin

Nearly one in seven Afghan women dies in childbirth. Follow an Afghan American filmmaker and her father to his native Afghanistan, where he brings desperately needed medical attention and expertise to the women most susceptible to maternal mortality.

Pickles, Inc.

by Nitza Gonen and Dalit Kimor

In the Israeli Arab village of Tamra, eight widows challenge social conventions and establish the Azka Pickle Cooperative, seeking financial independence for themselves and their children.

Pushing the Elephant

by Beth Davenport and Elizabeth Mandel

A story of forgiveness, hope, and the joy of family life, Pushing the Elephant captures one woman’s mission for peace in her country beset by genocidal violence.

Shadya

by Danny Hakim, Udi Kalinsky, and Roy Westler

Shadya Zoabi, a charismatic 17-year-old karate world champion, strives to succeed on her own terms within her traditional Muslim village in northern Israel.

Solar Mamas

by Mona Eldaief and Jehane Noujaim

Jordanian wife and mother Rafea is leaving home for the first time — to attend a college in India that is training rural women to become solar energy engineers.

Part of Why Poverty?

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Strong!

by Julie Wyman

Weightlifter Cheryl Haworth struggles to defend her champion status as her lifetime weightlifting career inches towards its inevitable end.

Troop 1500

by Ellen Spiro and Karen Bernstein

Their mothers may be convicted thieves, murderers, and drug dealers, but the Girl Scouts of Troop 1500 want to be doctors, social workers, and marine biologists.

Waiting for the Revolution

by Rodrigo Vazquez

Following two newly elected indigenous leaders from the campaign trail to their first year in office, filmmaker Rodrigo Vasquez journeys into the heart of the democratic revolution in Bolivia.

We Still Live Here - Âs Nutayuneân

by Anne Makepeace

The Wampanoag nation of southeastern Massachusetts revives their native tongue, a language that was silenced for more than 100 years.

Welcome to the World

by Brian Hill

Welcome to the World asks: Is it worse to be born poor than to die poor? This film looks at child and maternal mortality as indicators of poverty in the U.S., Cambodia, and Sierra Leone.

Part of Why Poverty?

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Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines

by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Kelcey Edwards

Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines traces the fascinating evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman. From the birth of the comic book superheroine in the 1940s to the blockbusters of today, Wonder Women! looks at how popular representations of powerful women often reflect society's anxieties about women's liberation.

Premiered on Independent Lens April 15, 2013