The Martha Mitchell Effect

Overview

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.

Directed by Anne Alvergue, Debra McClutchy

Top cast

Martha Mitchell

Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

Self (archive footage)

Connie Chung

Self (voice)

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Dwight L. Chapin

Self (voice)

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Piper Dankworth

Self (voice)

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John Dean

Self (voice)

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Dan Romaine Kirkham

Self (voice)

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Sally Quinn

Self (voice)

Bob Woodward

Self (voice)

David Frost

Self (archive footage)

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J. William Fulbright

Self (archive footage)

George McGovern

Self (archive footage)

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Bonnie Angelo

Self (archive footage)

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John Mitchell

Self (archive footage)

Walter Cronkite

Self (archive footage)

Lily Tomlin

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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