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Every Woman’s Problem, a Silent Film Imagining the First Woman Governor

Mothers of Men/Every Woman's Problem. Director: Willis Robards. Performers: Dorothy Davenport, Willis Robards, Maclyn King. Plymouth Pictures, 1917.

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Film, Video

Suffragists used every type of media to hammer home their message: magazine and newspaper articles, cartoons, posters, pamphlets, and more. But not all these polemics included words. Film—at that point […] Read More

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Iron Jawed Angels, a Film About Suffragist Alice Paul

Iron Jawed Angels. Director: Katja von Garnier, Performers: Hilary Swank, Margo Martindale, Anjelica Huston. HBO, 2004.

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Film, Television, Video

Iron Jawed Angels is a made-for-TV historical drama that tells the story of how a key leader in the US suffrage movement, Alice Paul (played by Hilary Swank), took the […] Read More

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A Video Career Celebration of Carol Ellen DuBois

A retirement celebration for Ellen Carol DuBois, UCLA Distinguished Professor of History and Gender Studies Emerita

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Documentary Film, Video

A celebration of the career of University of California, Los Angeles professor of history and gender studies Ellen Carol DuBois, highlighting her work on women’s suffrage, Victoria Woodhull, and the […] Read More

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A Documentary: Suffragettes in the Silent Cinema

Suffragettes in the Silent Cinema. Director: Kay Sloan. Kay Sloan, 2003.

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Documentary Film

Early filmmakers—both those in favor of women’s suffrage and those who opposed it—used the new medium to create commentaries on the issue, and to create widely seen portrayals of the women […] Read More