Across the timeline from 2018 to 2018, BFI Player has presented audiences with over 1 captivating shows. Highlighting BFI Player’s quality programming, Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema and undefined stand out, premiering in 2018 and undefined. As of March 2026, our compilation of BFI Player’s top-rated series boasts over 1 unique shows.

As told through clips from 183 female directors, this epic history of the cinema focuses on women's integral role in the development of film art. Using almost a thousand film extracts from thirteen decades and five continents, Mark Cousins asks how films are made, shot and edited; how stories are shaped and how movies depict life, love, politics, humour and death, all through the compelling lens of some of the world's greatest filmmakers -- all of them women.