The Best TV Shows on BFI Player

Every BFI Player Show Ranked From Best To Worst

With its programming history stretching from 2018 to 2018, BFI Player offers an impressive lineup of over 1 shows. Notable series such as Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema and undefined from BFI Player first graced the screens in 2018 and undefined. As of June 2025, our compilation of BFI Player’s top-rated series boasts over 1 unique shows.

  • Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
    Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018)7.8

    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.