Inspirational Women's History Humanitarian Biopics
Each March in the USA, we recognize female achievements during Women's History Month. Biographical movies are a great way to educate the public about landmark events in the struggle for gender equality. At the same time, these movies honor and celebrate each woman's achievement with the star power they deserve. Bios Source: Wikipedia.com In honor of these trailblazing women:
Which of these female humanitarians* who championed social change or justice inspires you the most, or alternatively their biopic does? * Political Activist, Social or Human Rights Champions, Humanitarians, Whistle-Blowers, Rebels, Etc.
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Which of these female humanitarians* who championed social change or justice inspires you the most, or alternatively their biopic does? * Political Activist, Social or Human Rights Champions, Humanitarians, Whistle-Blowers, Rebels, Etc.
Women's History Month Companion Polls Leader Biopics : Trailblazer Biopics : Humanitarian Biopics : Sports Biopics : Writer Biopics : Singer/Musician Biopics : Visual Artist Biopics : Performance Artist Biopics
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- DirectorWilliam RieadReparto principalJuliet StevensonRutger HauerMax von SydowA drama that explores the life of Mother Teresa (Juliet Stevenson) through letters she wrote to her longtime friend and spiritual advisor, Father Celeste van Exem (Max von Sydow) over a nearly fifty-year period.Mother Theresa: Religious Order Founder, the Saint and Nobel Peace Prize winner founded Missionaries of Charity. Her order with 4500 sisters serving in 133 countries touches millions of the world's poorest souls. Alternate Biopics: Teresa de Calcuta (2003), Madre Teresa (1997)
- DirectorSarah GavronReparto principalCarey MulliganAnne-Marie DuffHelena Bonham CarterEn 1912, Londres, una joven madre trabajadora se ve inmersa en activismo político radical que apoya el derecho de las mujeres a votar, y está dispuesta a usar la violencia contra la violencia para lograrlo.Emmeline Pankhurst and British Suffragettes: Political Activists, helped women win the right to vote in Britain and set in motion a shift in society that would change everything.
- DirectorTim RobbinsReparto principalSusan SarandonSean PennRobert ProskyUna monja, mientras consuela a un asesino convicto en el corredor de la muerte, empatiza tanto con él como con las familias de sus víctimas.Helen Prejean: Roman Catholic Nun, a leading advocate for the abolition of the death penalty. She ministers to inmates on death row. She also founded Survive, an organization devoted to counseling the families of victims of violence.
- DirectorJohn Lee HancockReparto principalQuinton AaronSandra BullockTim McGrawLa historia de Michael Oher, un chico sin hogar y traumatizado que se convirtió en campeón de fútbol americano con la ayuda de una mujer bondadosa y su familia.Leigh Anne Tuohy: Hero Mother, she showed making a big difference in the world can start by forever changing the course of one life.
- DirectorMarc RothemundReparto principalJulia JentschFabian HinrichsAlexander HeldLos últimos días de Sophie Scholl, uno de los miembros más famosos del movimiento de resistencia antinazi alemán de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, La Rosa Blanca.Sophie Scholl: Anti-Nazi Political Activist, a German national who stood up to Hitler and was executed for high treason. Her resistance group, the White Rose tried to stop the Nazis by exposing their atrocities to the German people and marshaling a movement of passive resistance.
- DirectorDoug LimanReparto principalNaomi WattsSean PennSonya DavisonLa agente de la CIA, Valerie Plame, descubre que su identidad supuestamente se filtró por el gobierno como venganza por un artículo de opinión que su esposo escribió criticando a la administración Bush.Valerie Plame: CIA Operative, a central figure in "Plamegate" scandal that would rock the White House. She and her husband uncovered hard evidence against the justification for the war in Iraq and bravely exposed it as the lie it was.
- DirectorSteven SoderberghReparto principalJulia RobertsAlbert FinneyDavid BrisbinUna madre soltera desempleada se convierte en asistente legal y casi sin ayuda hace caer a una compañía eléctrica de California acusada de contaminar el suministro de agua de una ciudad.Erin Brockovich: Environmental Activist, the legal clerk was instrumental in securing a record breaking legal judgment against Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), despite no formal legal training.
- DirectorKatja von GarnierReparto principalHilary SwankMargo MartindaleAnjelica HustonJóvenes activistas desafiantes toman por asalto el movimiento por el sufragio femenino, arriesgando sus vidas para ayudar a las mujeres estadounidenses a conseguir el derecho al voto.Alice Paul, Lucy Burns and American Suffragettes: Political Activists, helped women win the right to vote in America and set in motion a shift in society that would change everything. Alternate American Suffragettes Biopic: Coraje de mujer (1997)
- DirectorNiki CaroReparto principalJessica ChastainJohan HeldenberghDaniel BrühlLos cuidadores del zoo de Varsovia, Antonina y Jan Zabinski, deben salvar a cientos de personas y animales durante la invasión nazi en la Polonia de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.Antonina Zabinski: Hero Author, she and her husband rescued, sheltered, fed and cared for hundreds of Jews in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Both were active members in the Polish underground during the war and helped undermine the Nazi's hold on Warsaw.
- DirectorMike NicholsReparto principalMeryl StreepKurt RussellCherBasado en un hecho real narra la historia de Karen Silkwood, una trabajadora de una central nuclear de Oklahoma, que luchó por desvelar las ineficaces medidas de seguridad de su empresa.Karen Silkwood:, Chemical Technician and Labor Activist, her activism and death highlighted the cover-up of poor corporate health and worker safety practices in the nuclear industry.
- DirectorRam MadhvaniReparto principalSonam KapoorShabana AzmiYogendra TikkuThe story of courageous Neerja Bhanot, who sacrificed her life while protecting the lives of 359 passengers on Pan Am Flight 73 in 1986 when it was hijacked by a terrorist organization.Neerja Bhanot: Hero Stewardess, her courage against terrorism helped save the lives of 359 passengers and posthumously earned her India's highest peacetime award for bravery.
- DirectorJohn Kent HarrisonReparto principalAnna PaquinGoran VisnjicMichelle DockeryLa historia de Irena Sendler, una trabajadora social que formó parte del subsuelo polaco durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y fue arrestada por los nazis por salvar la vida de casi 2.500 niños judíos al sacarlos del gueto de Varsovia.Irene Sendler: Hero Nurse, she smuggled 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto, saving them from the Holocaust. She saved more Jews than any other individual during the Holocaust, aside from a few diplomats who helped Jews flee Nazi-occupied Europe by issuing them exit visas.
- DirectorLarysa KondrackiReparto principalRachel WeiszMonica BellucciVanessa RedgraveBasada en las experiencias de Kathryn Bolkovac, una policía de Nebraska que sirvió como oficial de paz en la posguerra de Bosnia y denunció públicamente a Naciones Unidas por encubrir un escándalo de tráfico sexual.Kathryn Bolkovac: Police Detective, she uncovered sex trafficking as a UN contract official in Bosnia. When her efforts to stop it were subverted by her bosses, she exposed their corruption and complicity within the UN peace-keeping mission to the BBC.
- DirectorAmma AsanteReparto principalGugu Mbatha-RawMatthew GoodeEmily WatsonSigue la historia de Dido Elizabeth Belle, quien es criada por el aristocrático tío abuelo Lord William Murray, primer conde de Mansfield en la Inglaterra del siglo XVIII. .Dido Elizabeth Belle: Human Rights Champion, her speculated influence on her great-uncle, the Lord Chief Justice of England led to favorable judgments in the Zong Massacre and Somersett trials. Both decisions are seen to set the stage for the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act and end of slavery in England.
- DirectorArthur PennReparto principalAnne BancroftPatty DukeVictor JoryLa historia de la lucha de Anne Sullivan para enseñar a la ciega y sorda Helen Keller a comunicarse.Helen Keller or Anne Sullivan: Disability Activist or Miracle Worker, Helen Keller was the first deaf-blind person to earn a BA, plus leader, author and speaker in worker, women's and handicapped rights movements
- DirectorPaul ShapiroReparto principalDana DelanyHenry CzernyRod SteigerIn 1914, nurse Margaret Sanger became a pioneering crusader for women's reproductive rights after she published a booklet on birth-control techniques that flew in the face of a law established by Anthony Comstock forbidding the dissemination of information on contraception. Sanger later helped to establish America's first birth-control clinic in 1916, and in 1925 was one of the founders of Planned Parenthood.Margaret Sanger: Political Activist, her crusade to legalize birth control changed the game and spurred the movement for women's liberation.
- DirectorJames VanderbiltReparto principalCate BlanchettRobert RedfordDennis QuaidSobre un reportaje de 60 minutos que CBS emitió en 2004 sobre el servicio militar del entonces presidente George W. Bush, y la sucesiva oleada de críticas que se prosiguió, costándoles sus carreras Dan Rather y Mary Mapes.Mary Mapes: News Producer, the Peabody Award winning CBS producer broke a number of important stories. None more important than the one that could change the course of US presidential election, a story she got right but nonetheless cost her job.
- DirectorJeff NicholsReparto principalRuth NeggaJoel EdgertonWill DaltonLa historia de Richard y Mildred Loving, una pareja cuyo arresto por matrimonio interracial en la década de los sesenta en Virginia comenzó una batalla legal que terminaría con la histórica decisión de 1967 de la Corte Suprema.Mildred Loving: Wife, her landmark case, Loving v. Virginia and defiance brought down the South's anti-miscegenation laws that stood for a century, setting the precedent to do the same for same-sex marriage laws fifty years later.
- DirectorKasi LemmonsReparto principalCynthia ErivoJanelle MonáeLeslie Odom Jr.El relato de cómo Harriet Tubman escapó de la esclavitud y se transformó de una heroína de la historia de Estados Unidos con coraje y tenacidad, liberando a cientos de esclavos y haciendo historia.Harriet Tubman: Abolitionist, an escaped slave herself, she was the leader of the Underground Railroad. She made some thirteen trips back to rescue some seventy slaves and help fifty others to freedom. Current Biopic: A Woman Called Moses (1978)
- DirectorSimon CurtisReparto principalHelen MirrenRyan ReynoldsDaniel BrühlMaria Altmann, una refugiada judía octogenaria, se enfrenta al gobierno austriaco para recuperar unas obras de arte que cree que pertenecen legítimamente a su familia.Maria Altmann: Holocaust Survivor, best known for her successful legal campaign to reclaim from the Austrian government five family-owned paintings by the artist Gustav Klimt stolen by the Nazis.
- DirectorSherry HormannReparto principalSoraya Omar-ScegoIdriss Abdillahi HoufanehAwa Saïd DararWaris Dirie, born 1965 in Somalia, flees at thirteen when sold to be a mans fourth wife. She works as a maid at the Somalian embassy in London, then in a McDonald's where she's discovered and becomes an international top model.Waris Dirie: Fashion Model, abandoned her career to stop Female Genital Mutilation, a practice common in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. She became it's leading spokesperson by starting the Desert Flower Foundation and a UN Special Ambassador. Her efforts to raise awareness have put the topic center stage around the world.
- DirectorJoel SchumacherReparto principalCate BlanchettColin FarrellBrenda FrickerUna periodista irlandesa escribe una serie de historias sobre narcotraficantes.Veronica Guerin: Crime Reporter, she exposed Irish drug criminals, despite repeated threats to her life and family. She remained vigilante and undeterred, paying the ultimate price.
- DirectorMick JacksonReparto principalRachel WeiszTom WilkinsonTimothy SpallLa aclamada escritora e historiadora Deborah E. Lipstadt debe luchar por la verdad histórica para demostrar que el Holocausto ocurrió realmente cuando David Irving, un renombrado negacionista, la demanda por difamación.Deborah Lipstadt: Historian, she fought for justice, historical truth and to prevent the re-victimization of Holocaust survivors, when sued for libel for claiming the Holocaust was real.
- DirectorFred ZinnemannReparto principalAudrey HepburnPeter FinchEdith EvansLa hermana Luke deja a una rica familia en Bélgica para convertirse en monja, y encuentra que su compromiso para con sus votos es un verdadero reto durante la crisis y desasosiego de la segunda guerra mundial.Marie Louise Habets: Nurse, the nun nurses the poor and sick, first in a mental institution and later in Congo combating tropical diseases. Eventually, she leaves the order to combat greater injustice in the Belgian resistance and as a war nurse. (Sister Luke aka Gabrielle van der Mal)
- DirectorJulie DashReparto principalAngela BassettPeter Francis JamesTonea StewartA seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.Rosa Parks: Civil Rights Activist, Parks' act of defiance and the following Montgomery Bus Boycott became a watershed moment in and symbols of the freedom movement.
