Confirmation

Confirmation (2016) is an HBO drama about a real Washington firestorm, and you can watch it online on iFILM. The fall of 1991: lawyer Anita Hill takes a seat before a Senate committee and, with cameras rolling, says out loud what many wanted kept quiet.

Her former boss, Judge Clarence Thomas, is one vote from a Supreme Court seat. Hill's account of harassment turns a routine hearing into a national reckoning. Kerry Washington plays a woman dissected on live television; Wendell Pierce is Thomas, fighting to salvage the appointment; Greg Kinnear is Senator Joe Biden, chairing a panel that slips out of his control.

Director Rick Famuyiwa skips dry reenactment and goes for the raw charge of the moment the personal became political in front of millions. What lands hardest is how those arguments over power, testimony and who gets believed still echo now. Stream Confirmation (2016) online on iFILM.