A group of women involved in the Women's Liberation Movement hatched a plan to invade the stage and disrupt the live broadcast at the 1970 Miss World competition in London, resulting in overnight fame for the newly-formed organization. When the show resumed, the results caused an uproar and turned the Western ideal of beauty on its head.
Genres: Comedy , Drama , History
Keywords: 1970s , admiring , adoring , affectation , ambiguous , ambivalent , appreciative , approving , assertive , based-on-true-story , beauty-contest , candid , cautionary , comforting , commanding , commune , compassionate , divorced-mother , feminist , intersectionality , london-england , student-protest , woman-director , women-s-liberation-movement , women-s-rights