More than a Lord's Daughter: The story of Ada Byron Lovelace
The first documentary will tell the story of Ada Byron Lovelace, the only legitimate daughter of the poet Lord Byron.  Ada Byron Lovelace, a mathematician, worked with Charles Babbage's drawings and designs for his Analytical Engine and developed a set of Notes with Bernoulli numbers to explain the Engine, becoming known as the world's first computer programmer.

Photo courtesy of the American Chemical Society

Out of  Her Mother's Shadow: The Story of Irène Joliot-Curie
The second film is on the life of  Irène Joliot-Curie, daughter of Marie Curie who, along with her husband Frédéric Joliot, demonstrated how it is possible to artificially create radioactive isotopes in a laboratory, for which they both won a Nobel Prize.  Their scientific work and their political involvement in occupied France during World War II, are the subjects of this film.

Photo courtesy of the Food and Drug Administration, (FDA)

Suffer the Children: The Story of Frances Kelsey and Thalidomide
The third film of the trilogy focuses on the life of Frances Kelsey who, at the Food and Drug Administration in Washington D.C. in the 1960s, single handedly stopped the drug thalidomide from entering the United States from Germany where it had been developed by a physician, a former member of the Nazi Party.   In Germany the drug was called Contergan.  Given to pregnant women as a sleep aid, the drug, severely under tested, caused horrible deformities and children were born with "flipper" type extremities.