The Derby (1913) - Emily Davison trampled by King's horse | BFI National Archive

Watch more films about the Suffragettes here:    • Playlist   A routine account of the 1913 Epsom Derby, one of many horse races that the Topical Budget newsreel covered that year, this film inadvertently made a contribution to the history of the suffragette movement by capturing the moment when activist Emily Davison was trampled by Anmer, King George V's horse, after she invaded the track. Read more at BFI Screenonline - http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/i... All titles on the BFI Films channel are preserved in the vast collections of the BFI National Archive. To find out more about the Archive visit http://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collect...