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Not for Ourselves Alone

Directed by	Ken Burns
Written by	Geoffrey Ward
Produced by	Paul Barnes Ken Burns
Narrated by	Sally Kellerman
Cinematography	Buddy Squires Allen Moore Ken Burns
Edited by	Sarah E. Hill
Production companies	Florentine Films WETA
Release date	November 7, 1999 (1999-11-07)
Running time	210 minutes

Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony is a 1999 documentary by Ken Burns produced for National Public Radio and WETA. The documentary explores the movement for women's suffrage in the United States in the 19th century, focusing on leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. It won a Peabody Award in 1999. It was released on VHS on November 9, 1999.

Events covered in the documentary

The revolution
"I wish you were a boy" The status of women in the mid-1850s
A drudge or a doll
Connections to the abolitionist movement
Temperance and reform
Mental Hunger - the restrictions leading to activism
The Seneca Falls Convention on women's rights
"A caged lion" - Susan B. Anthony
Women's Souls
The Woman's National Loyal League and the American Civil War
The 15th amendment and women's rights
The Revolution (newspaper)
Done It! Women's rights before the courts
Spreading the Word
Making History
Division and unity - the National American Woman Suffrage Association and NWSA merge
Self Sovereignty - a philosophy of freedom
The Woman's Bible - a challenge to religion
Anthony's death
The franchise comes

VHS Opening

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1998-2000 History's Best on PBS logo
1999 GM Commercial
Funding for Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Start of a Film

Documentaries

As director	Brooklyn Bridge (1981) The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God (1984) The Statue of Liberty (1985) Huey Long (1985) The Congress (1988) Thomas Hart Benton (1988) The Civil War (1990) Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991) Baseball (1994) Thomas Jefferson (1997) Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (1997) Frank Lloyd Wright (1998) Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony (1999) Jazz (2001) Mark Twain (2001) Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip (2003) Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004) The War (2007) The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009) The Tenth Inning (2010) Prohibition (2011) The Dust Bowl (2012) The Central Park Five (2012) Yosemite: A Gathering of Spirit (2013) The Address (2014) The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014) Jackie Robinson (2016) Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War (2016) The Vietnam War (2017) The Mayo Clinic: Faith – Hope – Science (2018) Country Music (2019) Hemingway (2021) Muhammad Ali (2021) Benjamin Franklin (2022) The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022) The American Buffalo (2023) Leonardo da Vinci (2024)
As writer	Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies (2015)
As producer	The West (1996)

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