From the award winning, 10 part archival program series, "Filmmakers on Film." There were more women directors before 1920 than at any other time in history. The first director to put a narrative story on celluloid was, Alice Guy Blaché in 1896. Few people know that Lillian Gish became a director in her own right in 1920. Ida Lupino directed over a hundred episodes of "Have Gun, Will Travel," "Thriller," "Gunsmoke," and many independent features....

A biography of Katharine Hepburn draws on new interviews with friends and family and previously unavailable materials to offer a study of the complex, intelligent, sophisticated woman behind the mythic Hollywood image.