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)
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)
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)