Mrs. Heckford (2018)

Sarah Heckford is the greatest Victorian adventuress no one has ever heard of, though in her day she was hailed by the Times of London as 'One of the most extraordinary women to whom the British empire has given birth.' She was a complicated, contradictory person: a radical humanist and a cagey capitalist; a fearless individualist and a tender-hearted romantic. MRS. HECKFORD, a documentary shot on three continents, and featuring animated segments from renowned silhouettist Andy Smetanka, finally brings to the screen a life story that might as well be ground zero for a century of sufferagist and colonialist melodrama.