The 2015 film Suffragette offers a powerful look at the British women's suffrage movement in 1912, focusing on the radicalization of ordinary working-class women whose peaceful protests were ignored. The film centers on Maud Watts, a fictional laundry worker, who illustrates the extreme lack of access and the systemic oppression women face. Maud, like her peers, was subjected to brutal working conditions, pitiful wages, and zero legal rights; she had no recourse when her wages were stolen, no ri