The Martha Mitchell Effect

Jan 20, 2022

0h 40m

★ 6.4

Overview

She was once as famous as Jackie O—and then she tried to take down a President. Martha Mitchell was the unlikeliest of whistleblowers: a Republican wife who was discredited by Nixon to keep her quiet. Until now.

Genres

Documentary

Crime

History

Production Companies

Foothill Productions

Hazel Pictures

Outspoken Films

The Martha Mitchell Effect Trailers

Cast

Self (archive footage)

Martha Mitchell

Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

Self (voice)

Connie Chung

Self (voice)

Dwight L. Chapin

Self (voice)

Piper Dankworth

Self (voice)

John Dean

Self (voice)

Dan Romaine Kirkham

Self (voice)

Sally Quinn

Self (voice)

Bob Woodward

Self (archive footage)

David Frost

Self (archive footage)

J. William Fulbright

Self (archive footage)

George McGovern

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9.0

Black Coffee

Feb 5, 2007

Black Coffee is a 2007 Canadian documentary film examining the complicated history of coffee and detailing its political, social, and economic influence from the past to the present day. The film details how coffee is the eighth most traded legal commodity in the world. It is also the fourth most valuable agricultural commodity. However, only one cent of a $2 cup of coffee goes to the grower.[1] This inequality has helped shape the history of continents and the Cold War.

6.9

Banshee

Jun 24, 2006

A city's most-notorious car thief must use all the skills at her disposal to evade a serial killer who wants to make her his next victim.

3.7

Tees Maar Khan

Dec 24, 2010

A con artist poses as a film director in a village with the intention of executing a caper with the unwitting help of the villagers.

10.0

KD – The Devil

Invalid Date

In the early 1970s, a petty criminal Kaali unwittingly involves himself with underworld thugs, catalyzing events beyond his control.

3.8

The Great American Girl Robbery

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A busload containing three cheerleading teams from three different schools who are heading to compete against each other is hijacked by terrorists and the girls are kidnapped.

8.0

Hands of History

Jan 1, 1994

This documentary follows four female First Nations artists—Doreen Jensen, Rena Point Bolton, Jane Ash Poitras and Joane Cardinal-Schubert are First Nations artists who seek to find a continuum from traditional to contemporary forms of expression. These exceptional artists reveal their philosophies as artists, their techniques and creative styles, and the exaltation they feel when they create. A moving testimony to the role that Indigenous women artists have played in maintaining the voice of their culture.

6.0

The Night of the Following Day

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A gang of four professional criminals kidnaps a wealthy teenage girl from an airport in Paris in a meticulous plan to extort money from the girl's wealthy father. Holding her prisoner in an isolated beach house, the gang's scheme runs perfectly until their personal demons surface and lead to a series of betrayals.

7.0

The Magic Voice of a Rebel

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'The Magic Voice of a Rebel' portrays the story of the Czech singer Marta Kubisová, who without never intending it, became a symbol of freedom for all generations in the newly free Czhecoslovakia in 1989. It is Marta herself who tells us her life story and how the Soviet invasion in Czechoslvakia in 1968 changed her life. Because of her deep involvement in the Prague Spring movement, she went from being the most popular singer in the country to being banned and suffering a sudden removal from the public scene by the new authorities imposed from Moscow. She refused to escape to exile and together with other banned intelectuals and artists became a disident instead. Blacklisted and persecuted by the secret police, she also suffered the betrayal of beloved people who were collaborating with the regime.

0.0

True Whispers

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Exploring the personal and heartfelt story of the Navajo code talkers, this documentary tells the stories of the young Navajo men recruited from harsh government boarding schools into the Marines during World War II. From 1942-1945, the code talkers devised an unbreakable code in their native language and transmitted vital messages in the midst of combat against the Japanese.

7.0

Maquilapolis

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Just over the border in Mexico is an area peppered with maquiladoras: massive sweatshops often owned by the world's largest multinational corporations. Carmen and Lourdes work at maquiladoras in Tijuana, and it is there that they try to balance the struggle for survival with their own radicalization in this documentary.

7.0

12th & Delaware

Apr 1, 2010

The abortion battle continues to rage in unexpected ways on one corner in an American city.

6.8

The Decline of Western Civilization Part III

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A musical study of Los Angeles in the late 90s, where homeless teens roam the streets and profess to live a punk lifestyle of music, drugs, and flouting authority.

6.9

The Golden Glove

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A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

7.0

Gottland

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0.0

Wrenched

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Activist/author Edward Abbey's legacy lives on in his best-selling books and now in director ML Lincoln's lively documentary. Lincoln pays tribute to Abbey and the environmental movement he inspired, reenacting his "monkeywrenching," and interviewing notable eco-warriors and present-day activists.

0.0

Namrata

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This short documentary tells the intensely personal story of Namrata Gill – one of the many real-life inspirations for Deepa Mehta’s Heaven on Earth – in her own words. After six years, Gill courageously leaves an abusive relationship and launches a surprising new career.

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0.0

Deadly Web

Jan 1, 1994

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9.0

Battle of Long Tan

Aug 16, 2006

In the gathering dusk of 18 August 1966, 108 young, inexperienced Australian and NZ soldiers are separated and surrounded, fighting for their lives, holding off an overwhelming force of 2,500 battle-hardened Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers. And, in the pouring rain, amid the mud and shattered trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, with their ammunition running out and another Vietnamese battalion massing for the final assault, the digger's situation seemed hopeless. Long Tan is the true story of ordinary boys who became extraordinary men.

4.1

Stranger Inside

Jun 23, 2001

After a stint in a juvenile detention center, Treasure is transferred to an adult prison where her mother, whom she has never met, is also imprisoned. Before long, Treasure encounters Brownie, a lifer and gang leader. Brownie reveals that she is Treasure's mother, and takes the girl under her wing, protecting her from the dangers of hardcore prison life. But some women in Brownie's gang resent Treasure's presence, leading to violent conflict.