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THE MARTHA MITCHELL EFFECT: Gaslighting, Nixon, Watergate, and Women in Politics

March 09, 2023 • Movikarma • Season 3 • Episode 38

Jared Milrad interviews directors directors Anne Alvergue and Debra McClutchy and producers Beth Levison and Judith Mizrachy about their Oscar-nominated short documentary, THE MARTHA MITCHELL EFFECT, which tells the incredible true story of a Republican cabinet wife who was gaslighted by the Nixon Administration to keep her quiet during the 1970s Watergate scandal. This all-female filmmaking team open up about why they decided to tell this forgotten story, why Martha Mitchell deserves our attention as an unlikely whistleblower, and the status of women in politics and government.

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