Bella

Her never-say-die advocacy still inspires, but the film also illustrates the merciless challenges of electoral endurance even for the fiercest fighter.

It’s all pretty straightforward in telling the story of Abzug’s rise, her career, and her many political defeats and comebacks, leading up to her death in 1998.

A basic but necessary biographical documentary about Congresswoman and feminist movement icon Bella Abzug (I’m surprised she hadn’t already received one).

Lieberman tells the story of a passionate, courageous, brilliant, woman, one who made a real difference in all women’s lives. But more than that, she made a difference in everyone’s life; men, women, minorities, and the LGBTQ community.