The Iron Lady

The Iron Lady (2011) is a biographical drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Phyllida Lloyd, with Meryl Streep playing Margaret Thatcher across six decades of British political life.

The film opens on an elderly Thatcher sorting through her late husband Denis's belongings — and then memory takes over. Young Margaret Hilda Roberts, daughter of a grocer in Grantham, learning to project her voice, running for Parliament in a world that expected her to make the tea. Then the years at Number 10: the Falklands campaign, the miners' strikes, the Brighton hotel bombing. Jim Broadbent plays Denis not as backdrop but as the person who paid the quieter price for all of it. Alexandra Roach portrays Thatcher in her younger years.

Streep won her third Academy Award for the role. The film divided critics on release — few disputed the performance, many disputed the portrait. Stream The Iron Lady (2011) online on iFILM.