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- 2023
- Hulu
- 1 h 40 m
- 2023
- Hulu
- 1 h 40 m
Summary A groundbreaking documentary film that uses Lady Bird's audio diaries to tell the story of one of the most influential and least understood First Ladies in history.
Directed By: Dawn Porter
Written By: Julia Sweig
- 2023
- Hulu
- 1 h 40 m
- 2023
- Hulu
- 1 h 40 m
The Lady Bird Diaries
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Summary A groundbreaking documentary film that uses Lady Bird's audio diaries to tell the story of one of the most influential and least understood First Ladies in history.
Directed By: Dawn Porter
Written By: Julia Sweig
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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The result is an extremely multi-dimensional portrait of a First Lady, one who, you can’t help but think, was the most significant at that point since Eleanor Roosevelt in her accomplishments and her influence on policy.
Many of the archival images Porter so fluidly employs will be familiar, but they gain fresh energy and timely urgency from Johnson’s absorbing narration and her often stirring observations about Lyndon Johnson, their political partnership, the environment and the two events she so presciently knew would shape us for decades to come: the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War.
It feels like there could be a second film just as compelling thanks to Lady Bird’s essential observations.
The audio recordings left by the first lady were clearly intended for posterity, and as such are discreet and politic but always revelatory, even by omission: LBJ’s legendary philandering, for instance, is never mentioned.
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Production Company
ABC News Studios,
Trilogy Films
Release Date Nov 13, 2023
Duration 1 h 40 m
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Awards
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 2 Nominations
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination