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Fri, May 30 Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) is questioned about her protesting with a hunger strike while she and other suffragists are falsely imprisoned and is then force fed.

    This TV movie showcases the inspiring true story of American feminist Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and social reformer Lucy Burns (Frances O'Connor), who risked their lives before WWI to campaign for a 19th amendment to the US constitution, granting women full citizenship and the right to vote. Alice was the founder of a radical women's party not aligned or allied with the long established suffragettes' movement led by Carrie Chapman Catt (the formidable Anjelica Huston). Among the Quaker-born, political activist Alice's recruits to her irrefutably worthy cause are glamorous lawyer Inez Mulholland (the ever stunning Julia Ormond), and senator's wife Emily Leighton (Molly Parker). Most famous among Alice & Co.'s campaign actions was a street parade - led by Inez dressed as a warrior-angel on horseback, on the very same day as President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration.

ALICE:  "I'm having dinner with Helen Keller."
BEN:  "Don't stare, she hates that."

While picketing the White House after the onset of war in Europe, Alice and her NWP protestors contend with verbal abuse and physical attacks from outraged hecklers (including US servicemen), and they end up thrown in prison after the circus of a court appearance - charged with a trumped up public nuisance offence of 'obstructing traffic', simply because they have embarrassed the condescending Wilson's administration. The gross humiliations of unrepentant inmate Alice's mistreatment in the workhouse are presented in uncomfortable detail during this film's latter half. Alice's unjustified punishments include solitary confinement in a straightjacket, and tortuous forced-feeding in a barbaric 'psychiatric ward' after she leads the other agitator/prisoners on a hunger strike. It's a perfect example of the truism that extreme courage may sometimes be mistaken for insanity.  

as they lived only 90
                  years ago. It was not until 1920 that women in the
                  U.S. were granted the right to go to the polls and
                  vote.

                  Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on November
                  15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan
                  Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach
                  a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there
                  because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's
                  White House for the right to vote. The women were
                  innocent and defenseless. An d by the end of the
                  night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards
                  wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on
                  a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted
                  of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic.'

                  They beat Lucy Burn, chained her hands to the cell
                  bars above her head and left her hanging for the
                  night, bleeding and gasping for air. They hurled
                  Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head
                  against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her
                  cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and
                  suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits
                  describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating,
                  choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking
                  the women.

                  For weeks, the women's only water came from an
                  open pail. Their food -- all of it colorless slop
                  -- was infested with worms. When one of the
                  leaders,

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