Series: Independent Lens
Season: Season 11
Episode Number: 20
Air Date:
Duration: 60 min
Joan Allen narrates this film about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc. Safe in Palestine in 1944, Hannah joined a mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary. Hannah parachuted behind enemy lines, was captured, tortured and ultimately executed by the Nazis.
Alona Tal
Hannah Senesh (voice)
Mark Feuerstein
Antoine Tissandier (voice)