Suffragette

Suffragette is a 2015 historical drama which follows the events of the suffragette movement of Great Britain. While some of characters are fictional many of them were real.
== Plot ==
In 1912, Maud Watts is a 24-year-old laundry worker. While delivering a package, she is caught up in a suffragette protest which includes her workmate, Violet Miller.
Alice Haughton, the wife of an MP, encourages women from the laundry to testify to a Parliamentary committee. Violet offers but is beaten by her abusive husband and Maud testifies. She expresses how she was raised alone by her mother as her father had left before she was born. The women later learn, at a public announcement, that the vote is not to be extended. Maud is caught up in the protest, arrested, and jailed for a week. While in jail, she meets Emily Davison, a confidante of Emmeline Pankhurst (one of the leading advocates for the suffragette). When Sonny sees her again he is angry but is glad to see her.
Maud faces stigma from neighbours and workmates. She tells her husband Sonny that she will stay away from the suffragettes, but later attends a secret rally to hear Mrs. Pankhurst who is coming out of hiding to speak to all the women fighting. Pankhurst manages to slip away when the police who heard about her return come to arrest her. Before leaving, Maude has a brief exchange with Pankhurst, who advices Maude to never surrender or give up the fight. Again detained, she is taken home by police. This time, her husband throws her out, even forbidding her from seeing her son. Maud struggles to see her son, continuing to work. When her picture is published as a known suffragette she is sacked and, past breaking point, she burns the hand of her male supervisor, who has been sexually abusing girls in the laundry for years, including Maud when she was younger, and Maggie, Violet's daughter. The police are called, and Inspector Steed allows Maud to leave, offering her an opportunity to act as an informer. Not wanting to betray the women or her friends Maud refuses.
Sonny continues to prevent Maud from seeing their son, George. This prompts Maud into more radicalism in favour of women's rights. She learns that Sonny has had George adopted by another couple as he cannot seem to raise George himself. Sonny allows Maud to say goodbye to George and she gives her son a toy she made for him and says to never forget her. Maud becomes more radical and is involved in bombing pillar boxes and cutting telegraph wires. She and her comrades are imprisoned after they blow up the empty house of a government minister. In prison, Maud tells Steed that they are violent because that is only way men will listen, she also states that they will win as they are half the human population and therefore cannot be stopped. Eventually she and many inmates go on a hunger strike and are subjected to brutal force-feeding.
The suffragettes feel that they must do still more to gain attention. They decide to attend the Derby when King George V will be in attendance, planning to step in front of the cameras and unfurl their banners. Before they go, Emily Davison hands Maud a copy of Dreams (1890), a book by Olive Schreiner that has been passed from one suffragette to another. On the day of the Derby, only Maud and Emily attend. They are barred from the area near the King, but Emily decides that they must carry on anyway. While the race is underway, Emily runs onto the track, stepping in front of the King's horse, and Maud witnesses her being trampled to death. After returning to London, Maud retrieves Violet's daughter from the laundry, and takes her to the home of Alice Haughton, who agrees that Maggie can work there instead. Maud later joins in Emily's funeral procession. The film ends by stating that Emily's funeral was reported around the world; and that certain women over 30 in the UK were given the right to vote in 1918, rights over their own children in 1925, and the same voting rights as men in 1928. Scrolling text lists countries and years that gave women the vote and others that did so later.
== Cast ==
* Carey Mulligan as Maud Watts
* Helena Bonham Carter as Edith Ellyn. Although the character of Ellyn is fictitious, she was loosely based on Edith Garrud and Edith New.
* Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst
* Natalie Press as Emily Davison
* Anne-Marie Duff as Violet Miller
* Romola Garai as Alice Haughton
* Ben Whishaw as Sonny Watts
* Brendan Gleeson as Arthur Steed
* Samuel West as Benedict Haughton
* Adrian Schiller as David Lloyd George
* Morgan Watkins as Malcolm Walsop
* Lorraine Stanley as Mrs Coleman
* Amanda Lawrence as Miss Withers
* Adam Nagaitis as Mr Cummins
* Emma Morgano as Miss Plook
Only Pankhurst, Davison, Lloyd George and King George V are not fictitious.