Movies and TvShows featuring "suffragettes" theme.

It's 1910 and we're in Banbury church hall at the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle. Margaret has been to London and discovered the Women's Suffrage movement so she decides they need to set up their own movement and The Banbury Intricate Craft Circle becomes the hilariously ineffectual Banbury Intricate Craft Circle politely request women's Suffrage. Gwen is the only member who actually enjoys the craft element of the meetings, while Helen thinks that craft is a little unnecessary, but she's not interested in women's rights: "What on earth do women need a vote for? My husband votes for who I tell him to vote for. What could be a better system than that?"

Parade's End is a TV mini-series set during World War I in Edwardian England. It follows the story of Christopher Tietjens, a conservative government statistician and his complicated relationships with his unfaithful wife Sylvia and the suffragette Valentine Wannop. Amidst the backdrop of war and societal changes, the series delves into themes of love, betrayal, and the struggle for personal freedom.

In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father. Spoiled and bored upper crust Edwardian English family has their world turned upside down by an all nonsensical nanny who teaches them how to enjoy life.

Suffragette is a drama film set in 1912 London, depicting the courage and determination of a group of women who fought against the existing misogynistic and oppressive system to gain suffrage rights. The film follows the story of Maud, a working-class woman who becomes involved with the suffragette movement, facing various obstacles and hardships along the way, including police brutality, sexual harassment, and imprisonment.

In post-World War I Winnipeg, a Ukrainian immigrant and a Jewish woman get caught up in a labour strike.

Savage Messiah is a movie set in Paris, France in the 1910s. It tells the story of a sculptor and his creative process, love life, and tragic events. Based on a true story and a novel, the movie explores themes of art, love, and the struggles of a Polish artist in a bohemian French countryside.

Suffragettes, with Lucy Worsley (2018) is a documentary film that explores the history of the suffragette movement in Britain and their relentless struggle for women's voting rights during the conservative society of Edwardian England. It delves into the tactics employed by suffragettes, from peaceful protests to acts of domestic terrorism, such as arson and bombing. The film also highlights the brutal response of the authorities, including police brutality and prison brutality, towards the suffragettes. Through insightful interviews, historical reenactments, and captivating narratives, Suffragettes, with Lucy Worsley paints a vivid picture of the hardships faced by these courageous women and the lasting impact of their activism.

In 1910, women working in the silk industry in Bursa, protest against the working conditions. They go on strike.

Many demonstrations of the art of Jiu Jitsu are given, and as evidence that this is not a passing fad intended only for the amusement of the public there is illustrated in very thrilling manner how several footpads follow two girls and then in a deserted section of the road make an attack, which is successfully foiled and the perpetrators taken into custody. Splendid action and good photographic quality. (Gaumont catalogue)

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

Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running on an all women ticket and promptly sets out to turn the town around.

Nelly's mother is a suffragette and persuades her daughter to join the good cause. Placing a bomb under Lord William's chair love develops between the two.

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 she's not alone. Across the city, women run safe-houses, organise meetings, smash windows and fire-bomb pillar boxes. It's dangerous, it's exhilarating, it's ground-breaking: and in 2017 the amazing story of York's suffragettes will be told for the first time. Everything is Possible is York Theatre Royal and Pilot Theatre's latest large-scale community production. The play was performed on a spectacular scale with a cast of around 150 and a choir of 80. The performance started outdoors before moving onto the stage at York Theatre Royal. We raised the purple, green and white flags and cried "Votes for Women!" to sold-out audiences.

Women attending a suffragette club meeting wear pants, boss their husbands, neglect their kids, play poker, and fight. Their husbands stay home to care for the children and run the household.

A fictionalised documentary that tells the story of María Lejárraga, writer and pioneer of feminism in Spain during the 1920s, whose work was produced under the name of her husband, the theatre impresario Gergorio Marinez Sierra. Lejárraga was the most prolific Spanish female playwright of all time. She is the author of works such as "Cancion de cuna", as well as a member of parliament for the Second Republic and founder of pioneering projects for women's rights and freedoms.

Moira Mulholland narrates the history of (European) women's rights through images, interviews, and performances focusing in on the Women's Suffrage Movement in Canada.

The campaign for women's suffrage steps up as Emmeline Pankhurst is arrested at the gates of Buckingham Palace.

A compilation of British newsreels and films taken from the BFI National Archive; dating from 1913 to 1917, the footage charts the development of the suffragette movement and the campaign to obtain votes for women in the UK.

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 achieve their goals of equal rights for women. It is a celebration of the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in Ontario.