Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were two defiant suffragist women who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. The two activists broke from the mainstream women's rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries to secure women's voting rights in 1920. In a country dominated by chauvinism, this is no easy fight. Along the way, sacrifices are made: Alice gives up a chance for love, and colleague Inez Mulholland gives up...

"Professor" Harold Hill is a con man who comes to River City, Iowa in the weeks just prior to the 1912 Fourth of July celebration and promises that he can teach the town's boys to play in a marching band.