
Calendar Girls(2003)
Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.


“In the fight for equal rights, an ordinary woman achieves something extraordinary.”
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.

Sally Hawkins
Rita O'Grady

Bob Hoskins
Albert Passingham

Miranda Richardson
Barbara Castle

Geraldine James
Connie

Rosamund Pike
Lisa Hopkins

Andrea Riseborough
Brenda

Daniel Mays
Eddie O'Grady

Jaime Winstone
Sandra

Kenneth Cranham
Monty Taylor

Rupert Graves
Peter Hopkins
Made in Dagenham is a comedy, drama, history film released in 2010 exploring themes of strike, based on true story, essex, labor strike, machinist, aftercreditsstinger. Directed by Nigel Cole, it stars Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson. A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
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