Film director and producer who documented the women’s liberation movement in BritainOn International Women’s Day in 1971, 4,000 women, men and children marched through central
London, demanding equal rights and equal pay for women. As a director and producer, Sue Crockford, who has died aged 76, led a team capturing the event: A Woman’s Place (1971) became the first
British film about the women’s liberation movement.
Her documentary, which also covered the first national conference, at Ruskin College, Oxford, the previous year, provides an invaluable historical record.