# Hillary (2020)

> A four-part documentary portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton that interweaves unseen 2016 campaign footage with chapters of her life.

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## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 4
- Episode runtime: 65 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: documentary
- Network: Hulu
- Cast: Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Marian Wright Edelman, Andrea Mitchell, Gloria Steinem, Kate McKinnon
- TMDB rating: 7.0/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11558924/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: none
- Tone: sober, analytical, probing, contentious, intimate

## Synopsis

Hillary (2020) is a US documentary miniseries created for Hulu, a four-episode limited series that offers a portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Rather than a narrated survey, it builds its picture from exclusive interviews with Clinton herself, her husband Bill Clinton, and a circle of friends and journalists, while Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders and Gloria Steinem appear to frame her career. The engine of the series is the tension between the public woman and the private one: each hour cuts between never-before-seen footage from the 2016 presidential campaign and biographical chapters tracing her life and rise. Episodes unfold as a steady accumulation of archival and reflective material rather than a plot, so the viewer watches a figure who has been among the most admired and most vilified women in the world slowly come into focus. The mood is measured, probing and often contentious, suited to viewers who follow American politics, and the approach echoes the investigative structure of documentaries such as The Final Year and The Jinx. Its tone stays sober and analytical, with a restrained emotional register that invites debate rather than sympathy alone. Fans of political documentary portraiture will find this a focused, single-season look at one of the country's most polarizing public careers.

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