Rewind: The Real Anita Hill Story

Tonight, HBO is premieringConfirmation, their fictional take on the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1991. It was the first of the decades televised scandal melodramas, not least for the spectacle of the Senate’s hostile grilling of Anita Hill about her accusations of sexual harassment by Thomas.

Freida Lee Mock’s documentaryAnita(2014) is an instructive take on Hill’s experience under the spotlightand how the resulting controversy changed the country.

My review is atFil...