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In early 20th-century Britain, a diverse group of women fight for equality and the right to vote.
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00:01Edith, what are you doing here? You're not well.
00:04There'll be a vigil.
00:06Mrs. Pankhurst tonight at Westminster Abbey.
00:08She's not going to last this time in prison ward.
00:11The King must pardon her.
00:12He's not going to pardon her, Emily.
00:15Then we've got to make him.
00:16How? When the government silences the press.
00:19Look, one column on the bombing.
00:21How do we make ourselves heard?
00:25One just has to gather one's strength.
00:27If it is the world's attention that we must capture...
00:30We take it straight to the King.
00:32Do something he can't ignore.
00:34Edith, you're too weak to face another prison sentence.
00:37Oh, nonsense. You...
00:44Maud, please.
00:45She's right.
00:46Every violent assault we consider, her heart cannot take it.
00:51Maud.
00:56It is the derby on Wednesday.
00:59The King is to attend.
01:02There'll be thousands there.
01:04You'll be stopped before you go through the gates.
01:05And those guards will go unnosed.
01:10We raise our flag in front of the world's cameras.
01:13We take all the events.
01:13We take all the events.
01:15You

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