Synopsis
American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally (2021) is a historical drama you can watch online on iFILM — the true story of Mildred Gillars, an American woman from Ohio who became a wartime broadcaster for Nazi Germany. Director Michael Polish traces her path from aspiring actress to Axis Sally, the female voice Allied troops heard over Radio Berlin throughout the war. Meadow Williams plays Gillars, with Al Pacino as the attorney who defends her.
Arrested in Berlin in 1946, Gillars was returned to the United States to face a treason charge — one of the stranger prosecutions of the postwar years. Her lawyer fought to show a more complicated picture: a woman caught inside a country at war, leveraged by the regime rather than loyal to it. The courtroom sequences, built from actual trial testimony, form the film's dramatic spine.
What lingers is how carefully the film withholds judgment. Gillars herself stays slippery — charismatic, damaged, self-deceiving in ways that are hard to untangle. Stream American Traitor online on iFILM.
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