“Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny,” part of PBS’s “American Masters” series, is two films, really. One is a documentary about the political thinker, best known for her books “The Origins of ...

Discover Hannah Arendt, one of the most fearless political writers of modern times. Discover Hannah Arendt, one of the most fearless political thinkers of the 20th century, who transformed her time as ...

Political philosopher Hannah Arendt, fled her native Germany during the Nazis’ persecution of Jews and found refuge in the United States. Writing about authoritarianism, Arendt coined the phrase “the ...

Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny is a feature documentary about one of the most influential and fearless political thinkers of the twentieth century. Through her bravery, judgement and unflinching ...

She caused controversy with books like “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” published in 1963, which grew out of her coverage of Adolf Eichmann’s trial for The New Yorker.