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Shoulder to Shoulder (1974)

How women fought for the vote

1 season6 episodes75 min per episode★ 8.6 · 161 votes

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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.

First aired

April 3, 1974

Last episode

May 8, 1974

Network

BBC Two

Country of origin

United Kingdom