MAKERS: Women Who Make America tells the remarkable story of the most sweeping social revolution in American history, as women have asserted their rights to a full and fair share of political power, economic opportunity, and personal autonomy. It’s a revolution that has unfolded in public and private, in courts and Congress, in the boardroom and the bedroom, changing not only what the world expects from women, but what women expect from themselves. MAKERS brings this story to life with priceless archival treasures and poignant, often funny interviews with those who led the fight, those who opposed it, and those first generations to benefit from its success. Trailblazing women like Hillary Rodham Clinton, Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey share their memories, as do countless women who challenged the status quo in industries from coal-mining to medicine. MAKERS captures with music, humor, and the voices of the women who lived through these turbulent times the dizzying joy, aching frustration and ultimate triumph of a movement that turned America upside-down.
Screening materials are available for educators, organizations and others interested in viewing within their communities. To request MAKERS screening materials, lesson plans, and educator toolkit, click here.
A film by Kunhardt McGee Productions, Storyville Films, and WETA Washington D.C. in association with Ark Media
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Dyllan McGee
Betsy West
Peter Kunhardt
Senior Producer
Barak Goodman
Narrated by
Meryl Streep
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Hours 1 & 2 Written and Produced by Hour 3 Written & Produced by Co-Produced by Edited by Associate Produced by Archival Researcher Original Music composed by Additional Music Additional Cues composed by Additional Editing Sound Design & Mix Cinematography Interviewers Treatment by Additional Camera Production Assistants |
Stills Animation Additional Archival Research Sound Effects Foley Artist Additional Dialogue Editing Sound Recordists Grips Business Manager Production Manager Laybacks Interns Title Sequence Graphics Colorist |
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For Kunhardt McGee Productions & Storyville Films |
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Producers Archival Research Co-Producers Supervising Producer Coordinating Producer Associate Producers Production Assistant Matt Goldman
Business Affairs Legal |
Interns Advisors to MAKERS project |
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Archival Materials |
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ATO Pictures National Archives and Records Administration Getty Images Corbis AP Images Magnum Pictures ABC News VideoSource NBC Universal Archives CNN ImageSource Vanderbilt Television News Archives T3 Media Carson Entertainment Group The Gardner Group F.I.L.M. Archives JEB (Joan E. Biren) Bettye Lane Virginia Blaisdell Ms. Foundation Women Make Movies The Brearley Collection Judy Blume Barbara “Dusty” Roads Alix Kates Shulman Aileen Hernandez Special Collections, Duke University Library The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University United States Supreme Court Muriel Fox Vincent Grass Ruth Rosen Bev Grant Barbara Smith |
Jo Freeman Letty Cottin Pogrebin Michael Abramson New York University Archives, Photographic Collection Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Rose Garrity Takestock Imageworks Betty Dodson Charlotte Bunch Marlo Thomas Billie Jean King Sherri Chessen Sarah Weddington Rutgers University Sharon Frontiero Meg Whitman Herstories Ann Chwatsky Wake Forest University Archives University of Washington Special Collections Eagle Forum Phyllis Schlafly Faye Wattleton Todd Studio Jane Bovard Diana Mara Henry Historic Films Streamline Films Prelinger Films Diana Davies Photographs, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
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Al Sutton Dick Cavett Ogilvy Frances Pellegrini Sophia Smith Collection Media Projects Budget Films Critical Past Open Road Productions CTV News Stox/The Shirley Show Oddball KERA Dallas Footage Farm Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Linda Alvarado Jean Kilbourne Mark Wynn Hartford Courant Barbara Burns Susan Love Beth Israel Hospital Jeff Malet Abigail Pogrebin Arlie Hochschild Michelle Rhee CTV News Stox/The Shirley Show Amy Richards Christine Pattee Diana Davies Photographs, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library Miss America Organization Cornell Law Library Roberta Walker |
The Women’s Library, London The Hartford Courant The Nashville Tennessean CBS/Photofest K-SAT San Antonio KTHI-TV News 11 Fargo North Dakota State Historical Society of North Dakota, State Archives, Newsfilm Collection KTHI-TV (Fargo, N.D.). Gloria Steinem Kathrine Switzer Sheryl Sandberg Elizabeth “Betita" Martinez WJZ Collection, University of Baltimore Ben Tyler Free to be Foundation Landov Media Black Women’s Health Imperative John Kouns Special Collections, University of Virginia University of California, Davis Brenda Berkman Clinton Presidential Library The Baltimore Sun University of Chicago Dorothea Jacobson-Wenzel Sheryl WuDunn Producers Library Film Archives Inc. Sisters of ‘77 by Cynthia Mondell and Allen Mondell Vincent Graas |
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Special Thanks |
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Wanda Adams |
Wendy Mackenzie |
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Executive Producer Project Executive Production Management Station Relations |
Interactive and Education Graphics Promotion Legal |
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SVP & GM of Women's Content and Lifestyle Brands General Manager
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Web Producers |
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MAKERS.com is a collective effort from Team AOL. MAKERS would like to recognize all of the AOL’ers, whose hard work, passion and creativity make MAKERS.com possible. |
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Anne Alvergue |
Roopa Mathew |
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Longtime partners with PBS, HBO and other major networks, Kunhardt McGee is an Emmy award-winning documentary company that specializes in films about the people and ideas that have shaped our history.
For three decades, Storyville Films has produced films based on stories of conscience, courage and innovation, including the Academy-Award nominated Sister Rose's Passion.
WETA Washington, D.C., is the third-largest producer of programming for the PBS system. Led by Sharon P. Rockefeller, WETA's other productions and co-productions include PBS NewsHour and documentaries by Ken Burns.
The Charles H. Revson Foundation
NoVo Foundation
Ford Foundation
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Carnegie Corporation of New York
The Rice Family Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
Additional Foundation and Individual Support:
A G Foundation
Diane Archer and Stephen Presser
Arete Foundation
Leigh Bantivoglio
Clara Y. Bingham
The Otis Booth Foundation
Florence A. Davis
Falcon Fund Foundation
Victoria M. Gordon
Jessica S. Guff
Hess Foundation
Jo Carole Lauder
Wendy Mackenzie
Sarah Peter
Alice Peterson
Holly Peterson Foundation
Peter G. Peterson
Marnie Pillsbury
Sharon Percy Rockefeller
The Shoreland Foundation
Sister Fund
Stuart Family Foundation
The Alice M. & Thomas J. Tisch Foundation
Lee & Cynthia Vance Foundation
Susan Wallach
The Jacquelyn & Gregory Zehner Foundation
MAKERS.com is a collective effort from Team AOL. MAKERS would like to recognize all of the AOL’ers, whose hard work, passion and creativity make MAKERS.com possible.
Anne Alvergue
Anthony Alznauer
Corinne Augone
Cara Brody
Robyn Caplan
Joy Carlos
Ramiro Castro, Jr.
Rob DeChiaro
Brad Elders
Emily Glatzer
Roy Hamm
Susan Hootstein
Zach Johnson
Dara Katz
Dan Laurence
Samantha Leibovitz
Darrell Mashia
Courtney Martin
Roopa Mathew
Stephen Meszaros
Miguel Mir
Devin Nolan
Andrew Peyton
Christopher Pownall
Michael Puretz
Mike Rubens
Monica Schillan
Johanna Schiller
Justin Michael Smith
Stephanie Spanarkel
Emily Tanczyn
Vanessa Valenti
Ali Vilensky
Mike Whitmore
Naomi Yasuda
