'Sexism stands at the door': 11 female film-makers written out of mainstream Hollywood history

Maya Angelou and Jean Seberg were just some of the women who faced everything from racism and sexism to transphobia, yet produced some of cinema's most defining pictures

Everything we're told about cinema is that it's shaped by men. If women feature at all in many Hollywood histories, it's to look gorgeous on screen and lead interesting personal lives off it.

But this narrative has been warped, consciously and not, by the men who have dominated film-making for almost a century, ignoring the women who made films, challenged the studio system - and helped bring it down.