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CONTEMPORARY FILMS ON WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE

  • Suffragette (2015, Carey Mullian and Meryl Streep as Britian’s suffragists Maud Watts and Emmeline Pankhurst)

  • Iron Jawed Angels (2004, Hillary Swank, Julia Ormond, and Anjelica Huston as American suffragists Lucy Burns, Inez Milholland, Carrie Chapman Catt)

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CONTEMPORARY FILMS CELEBRATING WOMEN

  • Mrs. America (2020, Cate Blanchett, Sarah Paulson, Tracey Ullman, Uzo Abuba, Rose Byrne)

  • Wonder Woman 1984 (2020, Gal Godot)

  • Misbehaviour (2020, Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw)

  • Birds of Prey (2020, Margo Robbie)

  • Little Women (2019, Saoirse Ronan)

  • On The Basis of Sex (2018 biopic on Ruth Bader Ginsberg) 

  • The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017-current, Rachel Brosnahan, Alex Borstein)

  • Hidden Figures (2017, Octavia Spencer, Taraji P Henson)

  • Wonder Woman (2017, Gal Gadot)

  • Battle of the Sexes (2017,  Emma Stone as Billie Jean King)

  • Harriet (2019, Cynthia Erivo as Harriet Tubman)

  • Queen Of Katwe (2016, Lupita Nyong’o) 

  • 20th Century Women (2016; Greta Gerwig, Annette Bening, Elle Fanning)

  • Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015, Kristen Wiig, Bel Powley)

  • Mad Max Fury Road (2015, Charlize Theron)

  • Wild (2014, Reese Witherspoon as Cheryl Strayed)

  • The Keeping Room (2014)

  • In A World...(2013, Lake Bell)

  • Becoming Jane (2007, Ann Hathaway)

  • Frida (2002, Salma Hayek)

  • Bend It Like Beckham (2002, Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley)

  • Whale Rider (2002, Keisha Castle-Hughes)

  • Erin Brockovich (2000, Julia Roberts

  • Election (1999, Reese Witherspoon)

  • First Wives Club (1996, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn)

  • The Piano (1993, Holly Hunter)

  • A League of Their Own (1992, Madonna, Geena Davis)

  • Orlando (1992; Tilda Swindon)

  • Steel Magnolias (1989, Sally Field, Shirley McLaine, Dolly Parton) 

  • I Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)

  • The Color Purple (1985, Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg)

  • 9 to 5 (1980, Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin)

  • Alien (1979, Sijourney Weaver)

  • 23 quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)

  • Pat & Mike (1952, Katherine Hepburn)

  • All About Eve (1950, Bette Davis)

  • Adams Rib (1949, Katherine Hepburn)

  • Keeper of the Flame (1943, Katherine Hepburn)

  • Now, Voyager (1942, Bette Davis)

  • Woman of the Year (1942, Katherine Hepburn)

  • Jezebel (1938, Bette Davis)

  • The Passion of Joan of ‘Arc (1928)

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CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTARIES CELEBRATING WOMEN

  • RBG (2018, documentary, US Supreme Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg) 

  • Feminists: What Were They Thinking (2018 documentary; Laurie Anderson, Jane Fonda, Judy Chicago and others on second wave feminism)

  • Seeing Allred (2018 documentary, Gloria Allred)

  • He Named Me Malala (2015 documentary; Malala Yousafzai)

  • She's Beautiful When She's Angry (2014, documentary by Mary Dore)

  • Women Art Revolution (2011, documentary with Cindy Sherman, Miriam Shapiro, Judy Chicago, Yvonne Rainer, Yoko Ono and others)

  • Miss Representation (2011, documentary Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Condeoleeza Rice and others)

  • The Glorias (2002, Gloria Steinem)

  • Gloria: In Her Own Words (2011 documentary; Gloria Steinem)

  • Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (1999 documentary by Ken Burns) 

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