Hilary Swank stars as Alice Paul in this HBO film about the militant suffragettes fighting for the 19th Amendment.

Here's a Ken Burns documentary that combines images, source readings, and commentaries from historians.

Two classic American genres—the road film and the buddy film—come together with a feminist (perhaps) twist. Some praised the film as a daring inversion of Hollywood misogyny (Gloria Steinem said the film brought tears to her eyes). Others complained that the film succumbed to Hollywood's fascination with stereotypes.