Women's Movements Movies & TV

Women's Movements Movies & TV

Iron Jawed Angels (2009)

Hilary Swank stars as Alice Paul in this HBO film about the militant suffragettes fighting for the 19th Amendment.

"Not for Ourselves Alone": The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (1999)

Here's a Ken Burns documentary that combines images, source readings, and commentaries from historians.

Thelma and Louise (1991)

Two classic American genres—the road film and the buddy film—come together with a feminist (perhaps) twist. Some praised the film as a daring inversion of Hollywood misogyny (Gloria Steinem said the film brought tears to her eyes). Others complained that the film succumbed to Hollywood's fascination with stereotypes.