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Poster Independent Lens - Season 11 Episode 20 : Blessed Is the Match 2025

Independent Lens - Season 11 Episode 20 : Blessed Is the Match

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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.

  • First Air Date: 1999-08-09
  • Runtime: 00:60:14 minutes
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Stars: Stanley Tucci
  • Network: PBS

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