Directed by Mary Dore, who produced with Nancy Kennedy, who also edited the film along with Kate Taverna, “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” (a great title) covers a broad spectrum. It records the triumphs and the continuing contemporary problem, gains and losses, but always with insight and an eye for levity when appropriate.

Many had a hand in creating this film, including composer Mark degli Antoni and Catherine Dwyer of Australia as Post Associate Producer, with a large additional and assistant editing team, among others needed to cooperate in covering the vast territory, including the early days of The National Organization of Women (NOW).

You’ll recognize many of those in the forefront of assorted movements and battles, including Gloria Steinem, Kate Millett, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and Susan Brownmiller, for example, and meet many who are lesser known but who played important roles in the fights waged.

Some of the episodes are amusing as well as stirring. Carol Giardina recalls the protest staged at a Miss America pageant when a banner was unfurled on the balcony for the world to see on television. The point about women being celebrated only for their bodies was strikingly made. Giardina, who has had a long activist career, founded an abortion referral network at the University of Florida.

One amusing episode was a protest in the Wall Street area against the way men ogled women. A brigade of women turned the tables and is shown making cracks about the looks of men as they came to work. Elsewhere in the film, there are some shocking responses from men, as when a woman speaker was venomously booed and heckled by a male crowd. Some of the male remarks sound Neanderthal, illustrating the prejudices women have faced.

A section of the film deals with the fact that many women were not familiar with their own bodies, and shows a chat session among women talking about such subjects as orgasms and body parts.

The film explores the links between women’s rights and the civil rights movement. The role of lesbians is also dealt with, and tactical differences also come under examination. So many high spots in the women’s movement are touched upon.

Among those taking part in the film are Alta, Chude Pamela Allen, Judith Arcana, Nona Willis Aronowitz, Fran Beal, Heather Booth, Rita Mae Brown, Linda Burnham, Jacqui Michot Ceballos, Mary Jean Collins, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Muriel Fox, Jo Freeman AKA Joreen, Susan Griffin, Karla Jay, Denise Oliver-Velez, Trina Robbins, Ruth Rosen, Vivian Rothstein, Marlene Sanders, Alix Kates Shulman, Ellen Shumsky, Marilyn Webb, Virginia Whitehill, Ellen Willis, Alice Wolfson and The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective.