Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

2015 · M · Biography

A documentary about the life and work of Hannah Arendt, the prolific and unclassifiable thinker, political theorist, moral philosopher and polemicist, and with her encounter with the trial of Eichmann a high ranking Nazi.

Directed by: Ada Ushpiz

Featuring: Adolf Hitler, Yehuda Bauer, Deborah Lipstadt, Alison Darcy, Richard Bernstein, Jerome Kohn, Steven Asheim, Aharon Appelfeld, Leon Botstein, Idith Zertal, Ramin Jahanbegloo, Gertrude Heidegger, Emmanuel Faye, Judith Butler, Khaled Furani, Adi Ophir, Roger Errera, Edna Brocke, Adolf Eichmann, Gideon Hausnet, Hannah Arendt, Hans Jonas, Hermann Göring, Otto Ohlendorf & Martin Heidegger

Watch DocPlay on all your devices

Watch on your TV, computer and laptop. Then take DocPlay on the go with our handy apps for phone and tablet.

See our supported devices

Download and watch offline.

Save any movie or series to watch on the go.

Brought to you by Madman Entertainment Pty Ltd. ABN 78 102 391 373. Level 2, 289 Wellington Parade South, East Melbourne, Victoria 3002, Australia. © DocPlay ™ 2025

DocPlay acknowledges the Traditional Owners, the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation, on whose land we meet, share and work. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from all nations of this land.