Bristol, Conn. - With this year marking the 50th anniversary of Title IX, documentary filmmaker Dawn Porter has created a four-part series about gender discrimination in sports that will air on ESPN.

"I wanted to make this series because I think Title IX is one of the most misunderstood civil rights laws," Porter told Variety. "It was enacted in the early '70s coming right out of the Civil Rights movement, when there was so much activity around race. Women saw how successful that could be, and really modeled a lot of their activism against the successful civil rights activists. I thought that was a great story."

The series can be seen now either on ESPN or ESPN.com.