Discover the life and work of Hannah Arendt, one of the most influential political writers of the 20th century. She transformed her time as a political prisoner and refugee during World War II into daring insights about the human condition, the refugee crisis and totalitarianism. Her warnings about a crisis in American democracy during McCarthyism and Watergate continue to resonate today.

Starring:

Anne Jackson, Bobby Short, David Thomson, Don Hewitt, Eli Wallach, Harry Belafonte, Jack Lemmon, Joanne Woodward, Lee Grant, Mark Rydell, Martin Scorsese, Michael Feinstein, Mike Dann, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Peter Bogdanovich, Quincy Jones, Richard Schickel, Tony Bennett, Yoko Ono

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Biography, Documentary, History, Music, Romance