Tune in throughout March for these programs featuring trail-blazing, history-making women.
American Experience: Fly with Me
Learn about the women who became flight attendants when single women were unable to order a drink, eat alone in a restaurant, own a credit card or get a prescription for birth control. The job offered opportunities for travel and independence. These women fought for gender equality and transformed the workplace.
American Experience: The Cancer Detectives
Explore the fight against cervical cancer and three people whose work helped slash death rates from the disease by more than 60 percent.
American Masters: Bella! This Woman’s Place Is in the House
Follow the meteoric rise of firebrand politician and activist Bella Abzug. See how her commitment to women’s rights and progressive causes upended the status quo in Washington.
American Masters: Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
Explore the life and career of Marlee Matlin, the first deaf actor to win an Academy Award.
Angels on Horseback
Explore the life of Mary Breckinridge and her efforts in founding the Frontier Nursing Service, whose nurse-midwives traveled by horseback to provide healthcare to those living in a remote, mountainous region of Kentucky.
Becoming bell hooks
This KET documentary explores the life and legacy of bell hooks, who wrote nearly 40 books and whose work at the intersection of race, class and gender is a lasting contribution to the feminist movement. Learn how her childhood in Hopkinsville and connection to “hillbilly culture” informed her belief that feminism is for everybody.
Call the Midwife
A season 15 begins, the Nonnatus team grows increasingly concerned for the welfare of four young children. Sister Catherine faces her first solo delivery, and the midwives attend a women’s lib meeting.
Diane Keaton: Star of the Silver Screen
Follow the Oscar-winning actress’s career, from her early days in California, and her first jobs in New York, where she studied the Meisner Technique of acting to early acclaim for her performances in Woody Allen films and her role in The Godfather films. She ultimately established herself as a feminist and fashion icon who helped redefine how women are portrayed on screen.
Distinguished Kentuckian: Eleanor Churchill
Eleanor Churchill cofounded Churchill Weavers in Berea with her husband, D. Carroll Churchill. Her innate flair for combining colors and textures soon made her the company’s primary designer, and she also managed and marketed the business to national renown.
Facing the Laughter: Minnie Pearl
The life and work of Sarah Cannon, aka country music comedian Minnie Pearl. With her “Howdee” greeting and price tag dangling from her straw hat, this beloved character was an instantly recognizable icon of country radio, stage and TV.
The Farmer & The Foodie
Hosts Maggie and Lindsey celebrate regional Kentucky food traditions and create delicious recipes by visiting the people and places providing the ingredients and inspiring simple, healthy meals.
Finding Your Roots
Catch Kristin Chenoweth, Alanis Morissette, Ciara, Lea Salonga and Amanda Seyfried on this month’s episodes.
Independent Lens: Keep Quiet and Forgive
Three decades after her assault, Lizzie confronts her Amish community’s silence around sexual abuse.
Independent Lens: The Inquisitor
Explore the life and legacy of Barbara Jordan, a groundbreaking Texas congresswoman whose sharp intellect and moral clarity transformed U.S. politics. From Nixon’s impeachment to civil rights battles, her voice demanded accountability, while she privately faced struggles few ever knew of.
Independent Lens: Vivien’s Wild Ride
When film editor Vivien Hillgrove begins losing her sight, she confronts memories of loss and resilience while reinventing herself as an artist with a disability. From her groundbreaking career to her life on a farm with her partner, Karen, Vivien’s story reveals how creativity, care and connection can reshape what it means to see and belong.
Martha Graham Dance Company: We Are Our Time
As the Graham Company nears its landmark 100th anniversary, this film offers a rare behind-the-scenes portrait of the company, exploring Graham’s legacy through the dancers who embody her work today.
Route 66 Women: The Untold Story of the Mother Road
In this three-part series, learn about the extraordinary lives and achievements of women who overcame gender discrimination and segregation to build fulfilling lives and legacies on America’s most iconic highway.
Two Wars: No Mail, Low Morale
The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, known as the Six-Triple-Eight, the only all-Black female unit deployed overseas during World War II, completed critical missions that boosted the morale of soldiers on the front lines.
WoodSongs
Check out all of the great women performing on the WoodSongs stage.
WW2: Women on the Frontline
This three-part series explores the daring and unknown histories of the remarkable women pilots, journalists, guerrillas and spies who fought, flew and died as they defied expectations, overcame prejudices and often outperformed their male counterparts.
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Independent Lens: Storming Caesars Palace
After losing her job as a hotel worker in Las Vegas, Ruby Duncan joined a welfare rights group of mothers who fought for guaranteed income and took on the Nevada mob in organizing a massive protest that shut down Caesars Palace.
Joni Mitchell: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song
Artists honor Joni Mitchell as she receives the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, with performances by James Taylor, Brandi Carlile, Annie Lennox, Herbie Hancock and Cyndi Lauper, among others.
Margaret: The Rebel Princess
This intimate two-part series profiles Princess Margaret, whose life and loves reflected the social and sexual revolution that transformed the Western world during the 20th century.
Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette is just a teen when she leaves Austria to marry the Dauphin of France. Under the complex rules of the French court, she suffers from not being able to live her life the way she wants and under pressure to continue the Bourbon line and secure the Franco-Austrian alliance.
The Philadelphia Eleven
Learn how a group of women in the Episcopal Church shared a call to become priests. After two legislative votes to make it possible for women to be ordained failed, they organized their own ordination as priests in defiance of church norms.
Shaking It Up: The Life and Times of Liz Carpenter
Explore the story of Liz Carpenter, a journalist, White House advisor, political activist and feminist who helped shape some of the most vivid moments and movements of the 20th Century.