WORLD VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Carey Mulligan heads to parliament to find out if women have won the right to vote in Suffragette

Published: 08:25 EST, 9 October 2015 | Updated: 10:42 EST, 9 October 2015

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The hugely anticipated big screen biopic of the women's right to vote movement hits cinemas next week.

Suffragette stars Meryl Streep, Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham-Carter, with MailOnline's world exclusive clip showing Carey's character Maud heading to parliament to find out if she and her comrades have won the right to vote.

The Sarah Gavron directed feature made headlines last year as the first film ever to be given permission to film within London's Houses of Parliament.

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Fighting to be heard: In MailOnline's exclusive clip of major new movie Suffragette, Carey Mulligan's character Maud is seen heading to parliament to find out if women have won the right to vote

The clip see’s Maud (Carey Mulligan) and Violet (Anne-Marie Duff) head to the House of Commons to join hundreds of women including Edith (Helena Bonham-Carter) and Alice (Romola Gari) where it will be announced if they have won the right to vote.

Maud and the other optimistic suffragettes are left heartbroken and angry though when it is announced that a change in the law has not been passed.

The clip also highlights the strain the women's rights movement put on families in the early 1900s, as Maud's husband Sonny (played by Ben Whishaw) pleads with his wife not to attend the demonstration, while Violet is taunted by neighbours for her involvement.

Women in arms: Violet (Anne-Marie Duff) and Maud (Carey Mulligan) head to the House of Commons to join hundreds of women including Edith (Helena Bonham-Carter) and Alice (Romola Gari)

Making history: The Sarah Gavron directed feature made headlines last year as the first film ever to be given permission to film within London's Houses of Parliament

No vote: Maud and the other optimistic suffragettes are left heartbroken and angry though when it is announced that a change in the law has not been passed

Carey's character in the film is a working wife and mother from the East End of London whose life is forever changed when she is recruited to join the U.K.'s growing suffragette movement led by Emmeline Pankhurst.

Three-time Oscar winner Meryl stars as Pankhurst, one of the most prominent figures in the suffrage movement who founded the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903, a militant organisation dedicated to 'deeds not words.'

Maud becomes a foot soldier for the cause alongside women from all walks of life, who are eventually forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.

Family strife: The clip also highlights the strain the women's rights movement put on families as Maud's husband Sonny (played by Ben Whishaw) pleads with his wife not to attend the demonstration

Foot soldier: Carey's character in the film is a working wife and mother from the East End of London whose life is forever changed when she joins the suffragette movement

Radicalised and turning to violence as the only route to change, they were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality - their jobs, their homes, their children and their lives.

The shoot wrapped last year after an epic filming schedule around London, with the movie becoming the first ever production permitted to film within the Houses of Parliament,

Gavron told the BBC at the time: 'We are honoured to be allowed to recreate a crucial moment in that long journey towards equality by filming where the Suffragettes actually brought their protest over 100 years ago.'

Filming took place just over a century after real demonstrations by Suffragettes in the Palace of Westminster.

The film is released in the UK on Monday 12th October.