Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
Acting
Swank's hunger-strike deterioration will haunt your dreams.
Direction
Von Garnier directs force-feeding scenes like psychological horror.
Costume
Those white dresses? Pure protest theater genius.
Director
Katja von Garnier
Hilary Swank
Alice Paul
Vera Farmiga
Ruza Wenclawska
Anjelica Huston
Carrie Chapman Catt
Molly Parker
Emily Leighton
Margo Martindale
Harriot Blatch
Frances O'Connor
Lucy Burns
Lois Smith
Reverend Anna Howard Shaw
Brooke Smith
Mabel Vernon
Adilah Barnes
Ida Wells-Barnett
Laura Fraser
Doris Stevens
Julia Ormond
Inez Millholland
Patrick Dempsey
Ben Weissman
Joseph Adams
Senator Thomas 'Tom' Leighton
Bob Gunton
President Woodrow Wilson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Alice Paul lived to 92 and saw the failed Equal Rights Amendment introduced—she's still waiting, folks.
Released during Bush v. Gore aftermath, the film deliberately echoed modern voter suppression fears—HBO knew exactly what it was doing.
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We’re watching this rn in my US history class and it’s such an amazing movie, such a shane my classmates don’t appreciate it
@dramaticvirghoe 33
They used my grandparents storefront for some of the scenes. Great experience.
@misswalls8412 11
It's a great movie. Like many movies, it's not entirely accurate. It's NOT a documentary. Movies do NOT release us from our responsibility to research and educate ourselves. Watch it. Do your research. Women were in fact treated as less than human and many suffragists linked arms with abolitionists because they understood that white males ruled the world and they were joined in their defense of human rights for everyone. Of course there were other issues along the way. The important thing is to follow no "movie" blindly...know your history, where you came from, what your ancestors fought for, and how women fought for the rights that we now possess freely.
@77greenmama 68
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