The British film looks at the British feminist movement that was active at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth-century to obtain women’s right to vote.

The film is a 2015 British historical drama film about women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, directed by Sarah Gavron and written by Abi Morgan. The film stars Carrie Mulligan as "Maude Watts", Helena Bonham Carter as "Edith Eileen", and by Merrill Street as leader of the movement, "Emilyn Pankhurst".

The film focuses on the struggle of working-class women to obtain their right to vote, and Maude Watts, as a mother, wife, and worker, she sacrifices her family stability for looking for a better future for women.

The Suffragette protesters sought to obtain the right to vote for women in Britain by organizing meetings and demonstrations, and female activists moved to break windows and burn uninhabited buildings of the state and officials.

 At the end of the film, the feminist activists are barred from the area near the King, but Emily decides that they must carry on anyway. While the race is underway, Emily runs onto the track, stepping in front of Anmer, the King's horse, and Maud witnesses her being trampled to death.

 The group's attempts faced violence by the authority, but they continued until 1913. In 1918 women in Britain gained their right to vote “for women over the age of 30.”