{"id":1140,"date":"2015-03-05T10:49:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T10:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/?p=6509"},"modified":"2020-02-28T07:47:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T15:47:06","slug":"celebrate-womens-history-month-with-these-docs","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/dipsy.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/celebrate-womens-history-month-with-these-docs\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Women’s History Month with These Docs"},"content":{"rendered":"

March is Women’s History Month, and, like a lot of people, we feel like women should be honored and celebrated every day of the year, but the idea behind an official month is to, as stated on the Library of Congress site, “more officially pay tribute to the generations of women whose commitment to nature and the planet have proved invaluable to society.” You can read more about the month here<\/a>. [International Women’s Day<\/a>, by the way, is March 8.] To celebrate women, we’ve compiled a list of just a few documentary\u00a0films (both Independent Lens<\/em> films and others) about important and fascinating women, including a few available to watch online via PBS.<\/p>\n

[View all Independent Lens<\/em>\u00a0films about women and girls\u00a0by searching here under topic<\/a>.]<\/p>\n

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Dolores<\/em><\/a> <\/strong>told the previously undertold story of activist Dolores Huerta, who tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice. Huerta evolved into one of the most defiant feminists of the 20th century \u2014 and she continues the fight to this day, in her late 80s. It’s \u201cexuberantly inspiring\u2026 makes you want to march\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>dance.\u201d wrote David Talbot in the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>. As of this writing it’s available on PBS Passport<\/a> and to rent on various streaming platforms.<\/p>\n