

The Martha Mitchell Effect
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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- Language
- English
- vietnam war
- usa president
- kidnapping
- 1970s
- watergate scandal
- richard nixon
- us republican party
- corrupt politician
- government cover-up
- government conspiracy
- government corruption
- woman director
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremierePGSundance Film Festival20 Jan 2022
- Digital / OTTPGNetflix17 Jun 2022
BrazilBR
- Digital / OTT12Netflix17 Jun 2022
FranceFR
- Digital / OTT12Netflix17 Jun 2022
GreeceGR
- Digital / OTTK12 Netflix17 Jun 2022
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The Martha Mitchell Effect was released on 20 January 2022.
Audience reviews
1- C6/10
CinemaSerf
10/29/2026
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…
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