Remarkable Films and Documentaries to Stream for Women’s History Month

Some of these accomplished women you will know, but others have equally fascinating stories. During 2020, I reviewed many of these films and documentaries.

Left: Marie Curie (Nobel-Chemist) 1911 (Public Domain
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) Right: Tina Turner Private Dancer (Public Domain)

Click to read Stream Films About Remarkable Women I covering Marie Curie, The Edith Beales, Maria Callas, Dian Fossey, Tina Turner, Bramwell.

Amelia Earhart 1937 New York World Telegram and the Sun Newspaper (Public Domain)

Click to read Stream Films About Remarkable Women II featuring Paris Was a Woman (1900s), Erin Brockovich, Frida Kahlo, Edith Piaf, Amelia Earhart, Diana Vreeland, Peggy Guggenheim, Joy Mangano, Sufragettes

Hedy Lamarr in The Conspirators (Trailer screen shot, Public Domain)

Click to stream Films About Remarkable Women III featuring Three Accomplished Black Women at NASA, Zaha Hadid, 13 year-old Female Eagle Huntress, Hedy Lamarr, Outsider Artist Maud Lewis, Tiger Trainer Mabel Stark

Left: Gertrude Bellin in Iraq, 1909 (Unknown Author, Public Domain) Right: Ruth Bader Ginsberg portrait by Steve Petteway (Public Domain)

Click to stream Career Women II featuring Gertrude Bell “The Female Lawrence of Arabia”, War Correspondent Marie Colvin, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Harriet Tubman, First Woman Filmmaker, Mae West

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Alix Cohen is the recipient of ten New York Press Club Awards for work published on this venue. Her writing history began with poetry, segued into lyrics and took a commercial detour while holding executive positions in product development, merchandising, and design. A cultural sponge, she now turns her diverse personal and professional background to authoring pieces about culture/the arts with particular interest in artists/performers and entrepreneurs. Theater, music, art/design are lifelong areas of study and passion. She is a voting member of Drama Desk and Drama League. Alix’s professional experience in women’s fashion fuels writing in that area. Besides Woman Around Town, the journalist writes for Cabaret Scenes, Broadway World, TheaterLife, and Theater Pizzazz. Additional pieces have been published by The New York Post, The National Observer’s Playground Magazine, Pasadena Magazine, Times Square Chronicles, and ifashionnetwork. She lives in Manhattan. Of course.