Awesome Stuff Women Did

Because women have done more in the past 10,000 years than just pop out babies and make sandwiches.

DISCLAIMER: We make no claim that all women featured here are saints. They did awesome stuff; the women themselves might not have been. Keep that in mind before sending angry notes.

Directed the first narrative fiction film (Alice Guy-Blaché)

Wrote, directed, and animated the oldest surviving full-length stop motion animated film, The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1923) and also anticipated Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks by a decade by devising the first multi-plane animation camera. (Lotte Reiniger)

Wrote, directed, and animated the oldest surviving full-length stop motion animated film, The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1923) and also anticipated Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks by a decade by devising the first multi-plane animation camera. (Lotte Reiniger)

Wrote the greatest science-fiction film of the silent era (Thea Von Harbou)

Wrote the greatest science-fiction film of the silent era (Thea Von Harbou)