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Spoiler-free premise
Ten years after a socialist revolution, feminist groups in New York organize against persistent racism, sexism, unemployment, and state media control.
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In an alternate United States a decade after peaceful socialist revolution, women form the Women's Army amid continuing discrimination and violence. Radio hosts, activists, workers, artists, and government agencies contest who speaks for change and how resistance should operate.
Why it belongs
Lizzie Borden makes feminist politics polyphonic through pirate radio, documentary texture, music, and competing organizers who refuse one approved revolutionary line.
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Portable cameras, radio booths, bikes, street interviews, newspaper meetings, protest footage, and music by the Bloods and Red Krayola create an urgent media network. Fragmentation embodies coalition rather than narrative disorder.
Major award wins
No verified wins in this six-institution crosswalk.
Awards are reference metadata only · zero points in 40/40/20
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Film Club
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Institutional reference ranks
Sight & Sound243IMDb Top 250—AFI 100—
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Great Cinema Master List scores
Greatness8.8
Engagement7.5
Ease6.4
English · Not Rated Narrative Feature Mood: Absorbing & Reflective
