7.3
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Prime Minister (2025)
Prime Minister (2025)
Overview
Prime Minister is a 2025 documentary directed by Lindsay Utz and Michelle Walshe, featuring Jacinda Ardern as herself. It chronicles her tenure as New Zealand's 40th Prime Minister from 2017 to 2023, covering her rise to power, leadership during crises like the Christchurch mosque shootings and COVID-19 pandemic, and personal experiences including pregnancy and motherhood while in office.
Starring Cast
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Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Leans Progressive
Islam: Positive
Viewer Rating
7.3
Overview
Prime Minister is a 2025 documentary directed by Lindsay Utz and Michelle Walshe, featuring Jacinda Ardern as herself. It chronicles her tenure as New Zealand's 40th Prime Minister from 2017 to 2023, covering her rise to power, leadership during crises like the Christchurch mosque shootings and COVID-19 pandemic, and personal experiences including pregnancy and motherhood while in office.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
HBO MaxDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The documentary champions Jacinda Ardern's progressive ideology through its focus on empathetic crisis management and policy reforms addressing gun violence, climate change, and public health. This portrayal, including deliberate contrasts with conservative leaders like Trump, forms the film's central thesis promoting left-leaning values.
The documentary contrasts Jacinda Ardern's compassionate leadership with traditional male figures like Donald Trump, framing her approach as a progressive alternative. It highlights her experiences as a female prime minister navigating pregnancy and crises, underscoring inclusive governance and gender equity in politics.
Secondary
The documentary portrays Jacinda Ardern's family life through her unmarried partnership and motherhood amid her premiership, normalizing non-traditional structures like pregnancy and breastfeeding in a top leadership role while highlighting the challenges of balancing career and parenting. This framing questions rigid gender roles and endorses progressive family norms as compatible with public service.
The documentary highlights Jacinda Ardern's empathetic leadership following the Christchurch mosque shootings, where she condemns the terrorist attack, visits victims' families, expresses solidarity with the Muslim community, and enacts gun control reforms to prevent future violence.
The documentary offers no portrayal of LGBTQ+ characters or themes, centering on Ardern's empathetic leadership through national disasters and personal challenges without addressing queer identities or related policies.
No transsexual characters appear in the documentary, and transgender themes are absent throughout the portrayal of Jacinda Ardern's political and personal life.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
This documentary chronicles the real-life tenure of Jacinda Ardern as New Zealand's prime minister, featuring archival footage and interviews with actual individuals in their authentic genders, without any character adaptations or recastings that involve gender swaps.
The film is a documentary featuring Jacinda Ardern as herself and interviews with real individuals, containing no actors portraying historical figures of a different race.
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