Discover the best of BFI Player with our list of over 1 series, meticulously updated for September 2025. Premiering in 2018 and undefined, Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema and undefined are among BFI Player’s most celebrated shows. Across the timeline from 2018 to 2018, BFI Player has presented audiences with over 1 captivating shows.
As told through clips from 183 female directors, this epic history of the cinema focuses on women’s integral role in the development of film art. Using almost a thousand film extracts from thirteen decades and five continents, Mark Cousins asks how films are made, shot and edited; how stories are shaped and how movies depict life, love, politics, humour and death, all through the compelling lens of some of the world’s greatest filmmakers – all of them women.