--- title: Suffragette Trailer: Meryl Streep and Carey Mulligan description: "Suffragette," a film about movement to secure women the vote in early-20th-centuty England, hits theaters this fall. canonical: https://time.com/3906875/suffragette-trailer/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-03T14:08:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:20:39.786Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch the Trailer for "Suffragette" With Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep og:description: "Suffragette," a film about movement to secure women the vote in early-20th-centuty England, hits theaters this fall. og:url: https://time.com/3906875/suffragette-trailer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the Trailer for "Suffragette" With Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep twitter:description: "Suffragette," a film about movement to secure women the vote in early-20th-centuty England, hits theaters this fall. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch the Trailer for _Suffragette_ With Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Jun 3, 2015 2:08 PM CUT  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Jun 3, 2015 2:08 PM CUT In _Suffragette_, Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep take on the story of the struggle for women’s suffrage in early 20th-century Great Britain. Mulligan plays Maud, a young working mother who joins the Women’s Social and Political Union to campaign for the right to vote. Streep will portray Emmeline Pankhurst, a real-life founder of the WSPU and controversial leader who encouraged militant tactics. The script comes from Abi Morgan, who’s dipped her quill into history several times before, with the Margaret Thatcher drama _The Iron Lady_ and Cold-War-era TV show _The Hour_. The trailer, true to life, depicts snippets of the escalation of the campaign to secure the vote for women, a fight which counted among its strategies arson, vandalism, hunger strikes and bombings. With a cast rounded out by Helena Bonham Carter and Brendan Gleeson, the film was also the [first to shoot](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/meryl-streeps-suffragette-be-first-686188 "undefined") on location at the House of Parliament, a benefit not just for the sake of verisimilitude but for set design budget, as well. _Suffragette_ is slated to premiere in limited release Oct. 23, expanding nationwide by Thanksgiving. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3906875/suffragette-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3906875/suffragette-trailer/"},"headline":"Watch the Trailer for Suffragette With Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep","datePublished":"2015-06-03T14:08:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:20:39.786Z","description":"\"It's deeds, not words, that will get us the vote\"","url":"https://time.com/3906875/suffragette-trailer/","keywords":["movies","Newsfeed","Movie trailers","meryl streep"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3906875/suffragette-trailer/","name":"Watch the Trailer for Suffragette With Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep"}}]}] ```