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Women's History Month
Detroit Public Television is pleased to salute Women's History
Month with several special programs.
Rosalie Sorrels: Way Out in IdahoWith a sound that "cuts like a knife and purrs like a kitten," Rosalie Sorrels has become one of folk music's most enduring entertainers.
No Compromise: Lessons in Feminist Art with Judy Chicago
Follow a group of women students as they venture into the studio with famed, and sometimes controversial, feminist artist and writer Judy Chicago.
Follow a group of women students as they venture into the studio with famed, and sometimes controversial, feminist artist and writer Judy Chicago.
The Mother RoadThis film celebrates Route 66, from Chicago to Los Angeles, where the filmmaker, Lauren Cardillo, and her 80-year-old mother, Irene, take the road trip of their lives in a Mustang convertible.
My Girlfriends QuiltThis one-hour music special, based on Valerie DeLaCruz's song, "My Girlfriends Quilt," celebrates the close relationships and cherished bonds that can form between women.
Government Girls of WWII
The story of the young women who flocked to Washington, DC during the 1940s to help in the mobilization for WWII and how their experience during the war years changed their lives, the city and American society.
The story of the young women who flocked to Washington, DC during the 1940s to help in the mobilization for WWII and how their experience during the war years changed their lives, the city and American society.
Churchill's GirlThis is the curious story of Pamela Digby Churchill Harriman - the uneducated daughter of an obscure English peer - who became the 20th century's greatest seductress, married Winston Churchill's son and helped Bill Clinton become President.
Iron Ladies of LiberiaShe's already overcome tremendous obstacles to become the first woman ever elected president in Africa - now all she has to do is turn around Liberia.
Meet Mary Pleasant
Meet Mary Pleasant, the 19th-century African American woman born a slave who became an international abolitionist, a prosperous entrepreneur, and a civil-rights activist who helped alter modern-day civil rights law.
Meet Mary Pleasant, the 19th-century African American woman born a slave who became an international abolitionist, a prosperous entrepreneur, and a civil-rights activist who helped alter modern-day civil rights law.
Peace is a Woman's Job is a docudrama about the courageous Jeannette Rankin. She was the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress in 1916.Josiah Allen's Wife: The Story of Marietta Holley
Marietta Holley was a Jefferson County writer of the 19th century whose work once shaped the entire women's rights movement in the United States.
Marietta Holley was a Jefferson County writer of the 19th century whose work once shaped the entire women's rights movement in the United States.
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