The Iron Lady

Director: Phyllida Lloyd
105 mins Film4 Archive

The Iron Lady is a surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

One of the 20th century’s most famous and influential women, she came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world.

This is a film about power and the price that is paid for power, a story that is both unique and universal.

The Iron Lady stars Academy Award winners Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher and Jim Broadbent as her husband, Denis.

Awards

The Iron Lady won two Academy Awards in 2012: Best Actress (Meryl Streep) and Makeup (Mark Coulier & J. Roy Helland)