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The Martha Mitchell Effect

The Martha Mitchell Effect

★ 6,4 /10 (83 Votes)
2022 EN 40 min

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.

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Release date

20/01/2022

Votes

83

Popularity

1.2

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

40 min

Website

www.netflix.com

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2026-10-29

⭐ 6

This isn't so much a documentary as a collection of archive interviews with the wife of the Attorney Genbaral at the time of the Watergate scandal all knitted together. She was a flamboyant and opinionated woman whom the Nixon administration initially saw as an asset, but when her husband John became implicated in the cover-up and then she, herself, became the victim of some serious slur campaigns because she refused to toe the party line, her name became mud and her sanity questioned. She still managed to secure the interest of the press and the media, though, and that's what constitutes the …

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