Directed and produced by Sally Heckel. Blue Ribbon winner, American Film Festival. Produced by Paul Barnes and Ken Burns, this film tells the compelling friendship between Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Born into a world ruled entirely by men, both believed that equality was the birthright of every woman. By the time of their deaths, many American citizen s lives had dramatically changed, especially the lives of women everywhere.
Film includes cinematography, interviews, and historical photographs.
A short history and guide available. This film focuses on the highlights of seventy-two years of the suffrage movement, beginning with the first women's rights convention in 1848 and climaxing in passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. It is a thrilling story of women determinedly working generation after generation to win the rights of full American citizenship, and the story of those women and men who fought against suffrage. For Undergraduates, Graduate Students and Faculty. At the 150th anniversary of the First Women s Rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, we asked participants to put the 1848 convention in perspective for a contemporary audience, and to reflect on its unique significance to our time.