2019 · documentary · political
Knock Down the House
Directed by Rachel Lears1h 26m2019
In 2018, a young bartender in the Bronx, a coal miner’s daughter in West Virginia, a grieving mother in Nevada and a registered nurse in Missouri join a movement of insurgent candidates challenging powerful incumbents in Congress. Without political experience or corporate money, these four women are attempting to do what many consider impossible.
Our read: Knock Down the House (2019) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded documentary · political entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle documentary / political, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
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