Santa Barbara, été 1979. L’époque est marquée par la contestation et d’importants changements culturels. Dorothea Fields, la cinquantaine, élève seule son fils Jamie. Elle décide de faire appel à deux jeunes femmes pour que le garçon, aujourd’hui adolescent, s’ouvre à d’autres regards sur le monde : Abbie, artiste punk à l’esprit frondeur qui habite chez Dorothea, et sa voisine Julie, 17 ans, aussi futée qu’insoumise….
Celebrate one hundred years of amazing progress made by remarkable women from all over the world in politics, sports, science, and the arts. Meet such heroic figures as Amelia Earhart, Eleanor Roosevelt, Katharine Hepburn, Edith Piaf, Rosa Parks, Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, and Hilary Rodham Clinton. Truly an inspirational chronicle of extraordinary women achieving extraordinary things over the course of the 20th century..
Abbey is seen a rare 1991 performance at the Promenade Theater in New York. She is at once beautiful, insightful and at the top of her musical gifts. The appearance represents the beginning of a great comeback that has since established her as a legendary jazz vocalist and composer..
This intimate concert series heralds the vocal talents of the great female singers of the 20th century, celebrating the uniqueness of the individual voices that helped inspire generations of younger performers. In this installment, the incomparable Sarah Vaughan -- a bebop singer with an impressive operatic range -- lends her signature voice to a selection of jazz standards as part of a memorable live performance filmed in the mid-1980s..
This documentary goes back to the turn of the century to show how women shaped the nation’s history..
