Suffragette

Sarah Gavron : 2015

The story of the ordinary British women at the turn of the last century who risked everything in the fight for equality and the right to vote. The foot soldiers of the early feminist movement were women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. These women were not primarily from the genteel educated classes, they were working women who had seen peaceful protest achieve nothing. Radicalised and turning to violence as the only route to change, they were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality – their jobs, their homes, their children and their lives. Maud was one such foot soldier. This is the story of her fight for dignity.