HILLARY
Directed by: Nanette Burstein
Lead Editor: Tal Ben-David Editor: Christopher Passig
Hulu
Official Selection: 2020 Sundance Film Festival
Official Selection: 2020 Berlin International Film Festival
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
Nominee — Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series, 2020 Primetime Emmy Awards
Winner — Limited Documentary Series, 2020 Critics Choice Real TV Awards
Nominee — Outstanding Achievement in News and Information, 2020 TCA Awards
Nominee — Best Multi-Part Documentary, 2021 IDA Documentary Awards
Nominee — Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Series for Broadcast, 2021 Cinema Eye Honors
A remarkably intimate portrait of a public woman, HILLARY interweaves revealing moments from never-before-seen 2016 campaign footage with biographical chapters of her life. Featuring exclusive interviews with Hillary Rodham Clinton herself, Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, friends and journalists, the series examines how she became at once one of the most admired and vilified women in the world.
“Hillary is a razor-sharp piece of filmmaking, a movie that doesn’t just hit the chronological beats of Clinton’s life but places them in context of how they impacted the campaign and election of 2016.”
RogerEbert.com
“Where Hillary stands out is how it finds in Clinton’s early years the foreshadowing of all the attacks she would face in 2008 and 2016 — not just flat-out sexism, but the charges of inauthenticity that connected to her learned defense mechanisms against being too much herself. There’s a tragic irony to Burstein’s narrative, a picture of a warrior weighed down by the armor that kept her alive.”
The New York Times
“Clinton’s bluntness emerges throughout the docuseries… Hillary frames the Clinton of yesteryear as a woman who learned that to be taken seriously as a lawmaker, she’d have to wear a mask. She never fully removes it, of course, but in her interviews with Burstein, it occasionally slips.”
The Atlantic