
Watch Hannah Arendt
"Her ideas changed the world"
- NR
- 2012
- 1 hr 54 min
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7.1 (11,502)
This biographical film covers the decision by political theorist and philosopher Hannah Brandt to accept an assignment from The New Yorker Magazine to write about the trial of Nazi party member Adolf Eichmann, charged with horrendous war crimes. As Arendt struggles to understand Eichmann's motivation and what drove him to be blindly faithful to his party, she is not prepared for the criticism and feedback that greets her published work and its theory of the banality of evil, with many people accusing her of defending Eichmann's atrocious actions.