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Premiering Tuesday, February 26 at 8/7c on PBS, MAKERS: WOMEN WHO MAKE AMERICA is the first film to tell the comprehensive story of how women have transformed America over the last 50 years through one of the most sweeping social revolutions in our country’s history.The film is narrated by three-time Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep, and includes movement leaders such as author and feminist activist Gloria Steinem and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton; opponents like conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly; celebrities including media leader Oprah Winfrey and journalist Katie Couric; political figures like former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; business leaders like Sheryl Sandberg and Linda Alvarado; and many “ordinary” women who confronted the dramatic social upheaval in their own lives.
The broadcast of MAKERS: WOMEN WHO MAKE AMERICA comes on the heels of the launch of MAKERS.com earlier in 2012. This landmark multiplatform video experience from PBS and AOL aims to become the largest and most dynamic collection of women’s stories ever assembled. The AOL-developed interactive video platform has become a source of inspiration for millions of people, having received more than 26.7 million video views to date.
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