The Martha Mitchell Effect

Told entirely through archival footage, this Oscar-nominated short documentary resurrects Martha Mitchell — the outspoken wife of Nixon’s attorney general, who blew the whistle on Watergate and was gaslit by the administration into being dismissed as a hysterical, unreliable woman. In her mid-fifties and at the height of the scandal, she paid dearly for telling the truth. Directors Anne Alvergue and Debra McClutchy restore her voice and her vindication — “Martha was right.” A sharp, female-gaze reframing of a woman written out of her own story.