Mrs. America (2020)
Mrs. America is the nine-part series premiered in the United States on April 15, 2020 to widespread critical acclaim. At the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards, it received ten nominations including Outstanding Limited Series and Outstanding Writing, as well as acting nominations for Blanchett, Aduba, Martindale, and Ullman, with Aduba winning Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. In January 2021, the American Film Institute named Mrs. America as one of the ten best television shows of 2020.
Mrs. America is based on and dramatizes the story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and the unexpected backlash led by conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly. Through the eyes of the women of that era – both Schlafly and prominent second-wave feminists including Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, and Jill Ruckelshaus – the series explores how one of the toughest battlegrounds in the culture wars of the 1970s helped give rise to the Moral Majority and permanently shifted the American political landscape. Every episode contains an opening message which acknowledges that some scenes and characters are fictionalized for creative purposes.
Date of download: 2015-11-11T17:22:34+00:00
Cast:  Cate BlanchettPhyllis Schlafly  Rose ByrneGloria Steinem  Uzo AdubaShirley Chisholm  Elizabeth BanksJill Ruckelshaus  Kayli CarterPamela Whalen  Ari GraynorBrenda Feigen-Fasteau  Melanie LynskeyRosemary Thomson  Margo MartindaleBella Abzug  John SlatteryFred Schlafly  Jeanne TripplehornEleanor Schlafly  Tracey UllmanBetty Friedan  Sarah PaulsonAlice Macray |
Mrs. America is the nine-part series premiered in the United States on April 15, 2020 to widespread critical acclaim. At the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards, it received ten nominations including Outstanding Limited Series and Outstanding Writing, as well as acting nominations for Blanchett, Aduba, Martindale, and Ullman, with Aduba winning Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. In January 2021, the American Film Institute named Mrs. America as one of the ten best television shows of 2020.
Mrs. America is based on and dramatizes the story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and the unexpected backlash led by conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly. Through the eyes of the women of that era – both Schlafly and prominent second-wave feminists including Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, and Jill Ruckelshaus – the series explores how one of the toughest battlegrounds in the culture wars of the 1970s helped give rise to the Moral Majority and permanently shifted the American political landscape. Every episode contains an opening message which acknowledges that some scenes and characters are fictionalized for creative purposes.
