What 80 Million Women Want

The women's suffrage movement inspired this silent film classic that includes appearances by equal rights crusaders Emmeline Pankhurst and Harriet Stanton Blatch. As politicos work to deny women the right to vote, a young lawyer tells his activist girlfriend of the corruption within the government that actively seeks to ensure that her voice is never heard.

What 80 Million People Women Want concerns women who, at the beginning of the 20th century, battled publicly to win their gender the right to vote. The leads play a couple engaged to be married. She is an advocate for the cause, and he supports her. They run into trouble when a conniving official conspires to blackmail them into silence.