The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony : Failure Is Impossible / Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.).

The second installment in Ken Burns' eye-opening profile of the women's suffrage movement, this program depicts the later years of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. With the help of rarely seen archival materials and voice-over portrayals by well-known actors, viewers learn how the strugg...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
Closed-captioned.
Published: New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2009], ©2005.
Series:Films on Demand.
Not ourselves alone.
Subjects:
Anthony, Susan B. > (Susan Brownell), > 1820-1906.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, > 1815-1902.
Civil rights > United States.
Equality.
Feminism.
Liberty.
Sex discrimination.
Sexism.
Women > Social conditions.
Women's rights.
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Genre:
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Films On Demand @ Infobase)
Physical Description:1 online resource (90 min.) : sound, color, digital file.
Variant Title:
Failure Is Impossible
Format: Electronic Video
Contents:
  • In the Cause of Women's Freedom (2:18)
  • Newspaper for Woman: "The Revolution" (1:18)
  • Women's Newspaper (1:47)
  • Suffragettes in Court (1:32)
  • Woman Votes for the First Time (2:00)
  • Trial Publicity: Good for the Cause (1:36)
  • Susan B. Anthony's Rigged Trial (0:55)
  • Susan B. Anthony Addresses the Court (1:46)
  • Supreme Court Decides Against Women (1:23)
  • Supreme Court Decision: Step Backward (1:24)
  • Opportunity to Speak and Debate (1:35)
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Lecture Circuit (1:57)
  • Encouragement for Women's Empowerment (0:56)
  • Constitutional Amendment Proposal (1:58)
  • History of Women's Suffrage (1:52)
  • Women's Friendship (1:11)
  • History of the Women's Movement (1:13)
  • Susan B. Anthony: A Driven Woman (2:11)
  • Single-Issue Movement (1:36)
  • Women's Christian Temperance Union (1:03)
  • New Generation of Suffragettes (0:41)
  • Death of Henry Stanton (1:17)
  • International Women's Conference (1:47)
  • New National Women's Suffrage Association (1:35)
  • Susan B. Anthony: On the Road Again (1:32)
  • Expansion of Women's Rights (1:07)
  • To Be Wed to an Idea (0:32)
  • Champion of Women's Rights (1:35)
  • Disappointment for Susan B. Anthony (1:21)
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Best Speech (1:45)
  • Importance of Female Sovereignty (2:46)
  • Solitude of Self (1:10)
  • Susan B. Anthony: Exhaustion (1:19)
  • Black Women and the Vote (1:06)
  • Susan B. Anthony Makes a Compromise (1:09)
  • The Woman's Bible (1:16)
  • God Creates Equally (1:03)
  • Need to Appease Conservative Women (1:49)
  • Censure of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1:09)
  • Susan B. Anthony: Steadfast to the Cause (1:17)
  • Bonds of Friendship (1:21)
  • Last Years of Stanton's Life (1:10)
  • Death of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2:23)
  • Funeral for Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2:13)
  • Failing Health of Susan B. Anthony (2:05)
  • Last Speech of Susan B. Anthony (1:22)
  • Last Days of Susan B. Anthony (2:21)
  • Funeral for Susan B. Anthony (1:40)
  • No Victory (1:21)
  • Passage of 19th Amendment (1:28)
  • Nineteenth Amendment Is Law (1:42)
  • Celebrations and Marches (1:37)
  • Women Vote in 1920 (1:34)
  • Long Struggle for Suffrage (1:30)
  • Women Changing Lives of Other Women (2:15)