Hannah Arendt(2012)

Why it’s here

Most films about thinking make it look like a montage. This one lets it look like what it is: a woman in a chair, smoking, staring at a wall, trying to work out how an ordinary man ended up running a machine of murder. What's punk is what happens next. Arendt refuses to write the grief her community expects, publishes anyway, and loses friends over it. What's pedagogical is that the real trial footage of Eichmann is in the film, so you watch him talk and decide for yourself. Her argument is still contested, and some historians have since argued Eichmann was more committed to the ideology than she allowed, which makes it a better thing to watch, not a worse one.