Academy Award-nominees Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter and three-time Academy Award-winner Meryl Streep star in this powerful drama, inspired by true events, about the women willing to lose everything in their fight for equality in early twentieth-century Britain. Galvanized by outlaw fugitive Emmeline (Meryl Streep), Maud (Carey Mulligan) joins the U.K. 's growing Suffragette movement alongside women from all walks of life who sacrificed their jobs, homes, children, and even their lives, for the right to vote.