Movies: Women s suffrage

  • 1996
    Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story

    Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story (1996)

    Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story

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    The firebrand reporter, feminist and philanthropist Dorothy Day co-founds The Catholic Worker with Peter Maurin, an eccentric philosopher....

    Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
  • 2014
    She's Beautiful When She's Angry

    She's Beautiful When She's Angry (2014)

    She's Beautiful When She's Angry

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    A documentary that resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women's movement from 1966 to 1971....

    She's Beautiful When She's Angry
  • 2011
    Clara Campoamor, the Neglected Woman

    Clara Campoamor, the Neglected Woman (2011)

    Clara Campoamor, the Neglected Woman

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    Spain, 1931. Under the Second Republic, women are eligible, but cannot vote. Victoria Kent and Clara Campoamor, the first women in the Spanish Parliament, intend to fight for women's rights, and Clara knows that the first step is to get the women's v...

    Clara Campoamor, the Neglected Woman
  • 1968
    The Ballad of Josie

    The Ballad of Josie (1968)

    The Ballad of Josie

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    A frontier widow aims to raise sheep despite a cattle rancher in old Wyoming....

    The Ballad of Josie
  • 2018
    Suffragettes, with Lucy Worsley

    Suffragettes, with Lucy Worsley (2018)

    Suffragettes, with Lucy Worsley

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    The story of the struggle for the women's vote is much more than just the account of the exploits of Emmeline Pankhurst or the tragic fate of Emily Davidson. Lucy Worsley puts herself at the heart of the drama, alongside a group of astonishing young ...

    Suffragettes, with Lucy Worsley
  • 2012
    Four Votes

    Four Votes (2012)

    Four Votes

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    11 JUNE 2013 is one hundred years since Norwegian women got full voting rights on an equal basis with men. Norway was among the first countries in the world to introduce universal suffrage for both women and men. The work for universal suffrage for w...

    Four Votes
  • 2012
    What Really Happened: Votes for Women

    What Really Happened: Votes for Women (2012)

    What Really Happened: Votes for Women

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    It's 1892 and Kate Sheppard tells the story of the suffrage campaign - a pursuit that will continue until September 1893....

    What Really Happened: Votes for Women
  • 1995
    One Woman, One Vote

    One Woman, One Vote (1995)

    One Woman, One Vote

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    Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon narrates this educational installment of the popular "American Experience" series as it examines the 72-year struggle for a woman's right to vote. Segments focus on influential figures in the women's suffrage move...

    One Woman, One Vote
  • 2018
    We Are Half The World

    We Are Half The World (2018)

    We Are Half The World

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    They were, at best mocked or ridiculed, at worst incarcerated, tortured, or even beheaded. But they would not be deterred. For decades ten thousands of women in Germany, Great Britain, in France, the U.S. and many other countries fought for their rig...

    We Are Half The World
  • 1942
    The Vanishing Virginian

    The Vanishing Virginian (1942)

    The Vanishing Virginian

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    The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does his best to adjust to change....

    The Vanishing Virginian
  • 2015
    Cake Bakers & Trouble Makers: Lucy Worsley's 100 Years of the WI

    Cake Bakers & Trouble Makers: Lucy Worsley's 100 Years of the WI (2015)

    Cake Bakers & Trouble Makers: Lucy Worsley's 100 Years of the WI

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    Documentary to mark the WI's centenary. Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusalem to reveal the surprisingly radical side of this Great British institution....

    Cake Bakers & Trouble Makers: Lucy Worsley's 100 Years of the WI
  • 2020
    Without a Whisper - Konnón:kwe

    Without a Whisper - Konnón:kwe (2020)

    Without a Whisper - Konnón:kwe

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    "Without a Whisper" is the untold story of how Indigenous women influenced the early suffragists in their fight for freedom and equality. Mohawk Clan Mother Louise Herne and Professor Sally Roesch Wagner shake the foundation of the established histor...

    Without a Whisper - Konnón:kwe
  • 1974
    Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons

    Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons (1974)

    Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons

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    Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian woman in myth. It asks, among other questions, is the Amazonian woman a rare strong female image or is she a...

    Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons
  • 1931
    Politics

    Politics (1931)

    Politics

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    A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town....

    Politics
  • 1912
    A Suffragette in Spite of Himself

    A Suffragette in Spite of Himself (1912)

    A Suffragette in Spite of Himself

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    A gentleman who's opposed to and mocks women's suffrage goes for a walk and unknowingly becomes an advertisement for it....

    A Suffragette in Spite of Himself
  • 2020
    Just Like the Men

    Just Like the Men (2020)

    Just Like the Men

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    Just Like the Men is an original silent film written in 1914 by Ella Higginson, a novelist, poet laureate, and campaign manager for Frances Axtell. Their campaign was a success making Axtell one of the first women in Washington State to be sworn into...

    Just Like the Men
  • 2016
    Kvinnorna på fröken Frimans tid

    Kvinnorna på fröken Frimans tid (2016)

    Kvinnorna på fröken Frimans tid

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    The story of the road to women's suffrage in Sweden featuring interviews with relatives of the main characters....

    Kvinnorna på fröken Frimans tid
  • 2020
    Not Done: Women Remaking America

    Not Done: Women Remaking America (2020)

    Not Done: Women Remaking America

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    "Not Done: Women Remaking America" chronicles the seismic eruption of women's organizing from the 2016 election through today, and the intersectional fight for equality that has now gone mainstream. Like the movement it documents, this story is told ...

    Not Done: Women Remaking America
  • 1969
    Women Should Vote: A short history of how women won the franchise in Ontario

    Women Should Vote: A short history of how women won the franchise in Ontario (1969)

    Women Should Vote: A short history of how women won the franchise in Ontario

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    The documentary follows the activism of prominent suffragists such as Emily Stowe, as they struggled for an equal say in their own future. These women formed associations, petitioned the Ontario Legislature, wrote essays, and held satirical events to...

    Women Should Vote: A short history of how women won the franchise in Ontario
  • 2017
    Everything is Possible: The York Suffragettes

    Everything is Possible: The York Suffragettes (2017)

    Everything is Possible: The York Suffragettes

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    It is 1913. Women across the country, outraged by inequality and prejudice are beginning to rise up and demand change. In York, a revolution is about to take place as an ordinary Heworth housewife risks her life and her family to join the fight. And ...

    Everything is Possible: The York Suffragettes