MAKERS: Season Two: Women In Hollywood

Six new documentaries in the MAKERS project feature groundbreaking American women in different spheres of influence: war, comedy, space, business, Hollywood and politics. Each program will profile prominent women and relate their struggles, triumphs and contributions as they reshaped and transformed the landscape of their chosen vocations.

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Alfre Woodard

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Glenn Close

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Geena Davis

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Martha M. Lauzen is executive director of the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film and on the film and television faculty at San Diego State University. Lauzen is photographed during an interview at The Makers Conference held at the Terranea Resort in Ranchos Palos Verdes, Calif.

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Ava DuVernay

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Sherry Lansing

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Director Dorothy Arzner and cinematographer Alfred Gilks, "Get Your Man" (1927). Paramount Pictures & Photofest

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Episode Two: "Women In Hollywood" repeats Tuesday, March 17 at 11 p.m. - Follow the women of showbiz, from the earliest pioneers to present-day power players, as they influence the creation of one of the country’s biggest commodities: entertainment.

Hear from actress-producer-activist Jane Fonda, who at 75 is playing a sharp, sexy and powerful media mogul on the award-winning series THE NEWSROOM; television powerhouse Shonda Rhimes, who created GREY’S ANATOMY and SCANDAL; screenwriter Linda Woolverton, who re-imagined the traditional Disney princess by making Belle ("Beauty and the Beast") a self-possessed, strong-willed young woman; writer-director-actress Lena Dunham, who mines comedy and drama gold by exploring what it’s really like to be a young woman today; six-time Academy Award nominee Glenn Close; director Nancy Meyers; and actress Zoe Saldana.

Visit the MAKERS project official website for the largest video collection of women's stories. MAKERS is on Facebook, Google +, tumblr, Pinterest, and you can follow @MAKERSwomen on Twitter.

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"Six new documentaries in the MAKERS project feature groundbreaking American women in different spheres of influence: war