Home / Series / Independent Lens / Aired Order / Season 2010 / Episode 11

Blessed Is the Match

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.

English
  • Runtime 60 minutes
  • Content Rating United States of America TV-PG
  • Network PBS
  • On Other Sites IMDB
  • Created March 9, 2016 by
    Administrator admin
  • Modified March 9, 2016 by
    Administrator admin