What to Watch on WFYI This Women's History Month

Celebrate Women's History Month this year by exploring pivotal points in Indiana, American and world history and learning more about women who fought for progress with these powerful documentaries from WFYI.

Watch films on a range of topics: from the entreprenuership and philanthropy of Madam C.J. Walker to a deaf racer and stuntwoman who blazed trails on the track and in film, most of which you can stream right now!

Stories of Hoosier Heroes

• The Codebreaker reveals the fascinating story of Indiana native Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst whose painstaking work to decode thousands of messages for the U.S. government.
• Eva: A-7063 tells the inspiring story of Holocaust survivor, Eva Mozes Kor. At 10, she survived experiments by Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. At 50, she helped launch the biggest manhunt in history. Into her 80s, after decades of pain and anger, she traveled the world to promote hope, healing, & humanity.
• Headstrong features seven groundbreaking women leaders from right here in Indiana in short video documentaries, tracing the activists who fought for women's rights at the ballot box, in business, and in the arts.

American Changemakers, Past & Present

• The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history.
• Unladylike2020 illuminates the stories of extraordinary American heroines from the early years of feminism, through a one-hour special for broadcast and 26 digital short films featuring courageous, little-known and diverse female trailblazers from the turn of the 20th century.
• Mama Gloria shares the story of Gloria Allen, a 75-year-old Black trailblazing transgender activist who started a charm school for homeless trans youth. It is the story of a mother’s love – the love that Gloria’s mother had for her and the love that Gloria has for her chosen children.

The Bravery of Women

• A Thousand Cuts goes inside the escalating war between the press and the government in the Phillipines. The documentary follows Maria Ressa, a renowned journalist who has become a top target of President Duterte's crackdown on the news media.
• Premiering March 28 on Independent Lens: Writing with Fire explores how the women journalists of India's all-female Khabar Lahariya ("News Wave") newspaper risk it all, including their own safety, to cover the country's political, social, and local news from a women-powered perspective.
• Sama shares how, in a time of conflict and darkness in her home in Aleppo, Syria, one young woman kept her camera rolling — while falling in love, getting married, having a baby and saying goodbye as her city crumbled. 

WFYI Passport members can discover even more documentaries, dramas and journalism that highlight the stories of women this Women's History Month. Learn more about this WFYI member benefit today!