Shoulder to Shoulder (1974)
Shoulder to Shoulder is a 1974 BBC drama serial created through the collaboration of actress Georgia Brown, filmmaker Midge Mackenzie, and producer Verity Lambert. A dramatisation of the history of the women's suffrage movement in Britain, focusing on the Pankhurst family and their fight for women's right to vote, the six-part series, starring Siân Phillips as Emmeline Pankhurst, is considered a landmark in feminist television drama.
- Midge Mackenzie
- Verity Lambert
- Georgia Brown
Stars:
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Episode 1 - The Pankhursts
Release Date: 1974-04-031898: Dr and Mrs Pankhurst and their four children are living comfortably in Manchester. However, in that year an event occurs which will radically change all their lives.
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Episode 2 - Annie Kenney
Release Date: 1974-04-101904: Annie Kenney - a mill worker since the age of ten. What has Women's Suffrage to offer her?
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Episode 3 - Lady Constance Lytton
Release Date: 1974-04-171908: Constance Lytton : daughter of the Viceroy of India, she came from one of the leading families in the land. Almost any door was open for her.
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Episode 4 - Christabel Pankhurst
Release Date: 1974-04-24Black Friday, 18 November 1910. A violent struggle in Parliament Square between suffragettes and police. But why don't the police arrest the suffragettes...?
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Episode 5 - Outrage
Release Date: 1974-05-01The campaign grows: suffragettes destroy property and Emily Wilding Davison becomes a martyr to the cause.
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Episode 6 - Sylvia Pankhurst
Release Date: 1974-05-081914: War is declared, and women still do not have the vote.