A film, directed by Katja von Garnier follows political activists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns as they revolutionize a U.s. feminism to grant women the right to vote.

Synopsis
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A film opens when Alice & Lucy go to to the United States from either England where they own been actively required in the suffrage movement. When a duo becomes extra active in a National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), they start out to understand that their ideas were good deal as well radical for the constituted militant (particularly Carrie Chapman Catt). Two women sooner or later leave NAWSA & produce a National Woman's Party (NWP), a much more radical organization dedicated to the fight for women's rights.

On top period, tension between a NWP & NAWSA grows when NAWSA leaders criticize NWP manoeuvre like straight protesting of the President and picketing directly outside the White Home. Relations between a U.s. government & a NWP protestors too intensify, when hundreds of women come arrested for their actions, & treated under horrifying conditions. When you took this instance, Alice Paul & more women undergo the hunger strike during which prison authorities forcefeed them across the tube. News of their coarse of action leaks to a medithe across a Senator & hubby of one of the captive women (world health organization, before this event, pushed for the arrest of protestors). Following, pressure is sham President Wilson when NAWSA seizes a chance to lobby inexhaustibly for the nineteenth amendment to the Constitution.

Paul, Burns, & tons of a more women come one of these days pardoned per President & the Supreme Court rules that their arrests were, in fact, unconstitutional.

Title
A title of this film is from either a title given to these women per media upon hearing of their bravery when you took a prison conditions. Starring Hilary Swank as Alice Paul, Frances O'Connor as Lucy Burns, Julia Ormond as Inez Milholland and Anjelica Huston as Carrie Chapman Catt along with Patrick Dempsey as Ben Weissman, the film was released in 2004.