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Suffragette
Why this pick
A similarly urgent, grounded account of women pushing for the vote, with street-level activism, institutional resistance, and a fierce focus on the personal cost of political courage.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns return from England where they met while participating in the Women's Social and Political Union started by radical suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst and led by her daughter Christabel Pankhurst. The pair presents a plan to the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) to campaign directly in Washington D.C. for national voting rights for women. They find that their ideas are too forceful for the established suffragette leaders, particularly Carrie Chapman Catt, but they are allowed to lead the NAWSA Congressional Committee in D.C. They start by organizing the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913 on the eve of President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Hilary Swank
Alice Paul
Molly Parker
Emily Leighton
Margo Martindale
Harriot Blatch
Adilah Barnes
Ida Wells-Barnett
Patrick Dempsey
Ben Weissman
Joseph Adams
Senator Thomas 'Tom' Leighton
Bob Gunton
President Woodrow Wilson
Julia Ormond
Inez Millholland