Vindication Swim

Vindication Swim (2024) is a British historical drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Elliott Hasler — the true story of Mercedes Gleitze, who crossed the English Channel solo in 1927 and became the first British woman to do so.

More than twenty hours in near-freezing water got her across. Then a rival appeared, claiming she had done the same. Gleitze had to decide whether to let the record be taken from her or go back in. Kirsten Callaghan carries the lead role with real physical conviction. The film is as much about what it took for a woman in the 1920s to own her own achievement as it is about the swim itself — in an era when a man's assertion outweighed any amount of evidence.

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