Shoulder to Shoulder (1974)

How women fought for the vote

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.

Shoulder to Shoulder

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as Emmeline Pankhurst

as Christabel Pankhurst

as Annie Kenney

as Sylvia Pankhurst

as Flora Drummond

as Mrs Pethick-Lawrence

as Dr Ethel Smyth

as Mr Pethick-Lawrence

as Dr Richard Pankhurst

as Zellie Emerson

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Seasons

Season 1

Miniseries

Episodes season 1

1x1

The pankhursts
1x2

Annie kenney
1x3

Lady constance lytton
1x4

Christabel pankhurst
1x5

Outrage
1x6

Sylvia pankhurst

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