Mike Wallace Is Here (2019), Rogue (2013), All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone (2016), The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947), Sisters (1973), 3 Days in Quiberon (2018), Shadow of the Thin Man (1941), Angels in the Outfield (1951) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Journalism movies.
Storyline: In a documentary about Samuel Fuller, the spectator gets different impressions about the Hollywood director and his films. The film is divided into the three sections: The Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera. The first segment covers Fuller's past as a newsman where he began as a copy boy and ended as a reporter. Part two describes Fuller's experiences in World War II, in which he participated as a soldier. The last section focuses on Fuller as director. Tim Robbins interviews Samuel Fuller revealing the director's own memories and impressions. Beside the interview, Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino accompany the documentary with their comments.—Gerhard Windecker <g.wind@mbox300.swipnet.se>
Plot Keywords: quentin tarantino, martin scorsese, writer, soldier, reporter, director, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Thousands of citizens of Myanmar take to the streets in several cities to protest the Asian nation's repressive regime. The protests take on a new degree of seriousness when dozens of monks launch their own marches down city streets. This documentary from Anders Ostergaard focuses on the work of videographers and citizen journalists who defy the government's crackdown on the media -- a brave bunch who manage to transmit footage of the uprising to the outside world.
Plot Keywords: political activist, young man, monk, cameraman, police officer, fascinating, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist covering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with the local journalist Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the American forces leave, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind himself to help Schanberg cover the event. As an American, Schanberg won't have any trouble leaving the country, but the situation is different for Pran; he's a local, and the Khmer Rouge are moving in.
Plot Keywords: journalist, interpreter, photojournalist, wife, reporter, chilling, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1968, in 1/500th of a second Eddie Adams photographed a Saigon police chief, General Nygoc Loan, shooting a Vietcong guerrilla point black. Some say that photograph ended the Vietnam war. The photo brought Eddie fame and a Pulitzer, but Eddie was haunted by the man he had vilified. He would say, "Two lives were destroyed that day, the victim's and the general." Other's would say three lives were destroyed. Eddie Adams, like most artists, was tortured by his need for perfection. Nothing he did ever satisfied him. He carved out many careers shooting covers for Life, Time, and even Penthouse. Yet, somehow, he was always pulled back into documenting wars, 13 all together. Finally he hit the wall and couldn't take it anymore. He began shooting celebrities because "It doesn't take anything from you." Eddie was comfortable with kings and coal miners. During his time with Parade magazines he photographed Clint Eastwood, Louis Armstrong, Mother Teresa, and Pope John Paul.—Isaac Hagy
Plot Keywords: photographer, general, guerrilla, fascinating, chilling, vietnam, united states ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The groundbreaking and often game-changing reporting of legendary foreign correspondent and author Robert Fisk is profiled in the latest from acclaimed documentarian Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze).
Plot Keywords: war correspondent, journalist, british man, writer, enemy, foreigner, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When powerful publishing tycoon Earl Janoth commits an act of murder at the height of passion, he cleverly begins to cover his tracks and frame an innocent man whose identity he doesn't know but who just happens to have contact with the murder victim. That man is a close associate on his magazine whom he enlists to trap this "killer" - George Stroud. It's up to George to continue to "help" Janoth, to elude the police and to find proof of his innocence and Janoth's guilt.—Ron Kerrigan
Plot Keywords: editor, boss, wife, mistress, henchman, reporter, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A documentary on the infamous gonzo journalist, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.
Plot Keywords: journalist, johnny depp, actor, amusing, outlandish, hollywood, calif., hunter s. thompson ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The profile of controversial journalist George Seldes and a piercing examination of America's news media. Narrated by Susan Sarandon, with readings of writings by Ed Asner, this Academy Award-nominated film includes stunning archival materials.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: foreign correspondent, dictator, civil rights leader, engaging, inspiring, family home, soviet union ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A chronicle which provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet. Roundly criticized by Cabinet members and Pentagon officials for reporting with a pro-Iraqi bias, and strongly condemned for frequently airing civilian causalities as well as footage of American POWs, the station has revealed (and continues to show the world) everything about the Iraq War that the Bush administration did not want it to see.—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: journalist, soldier, arab, donald rumsfeld, reporter, military official, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A journalist researching a documentary in the Sahara Desert meets a gunrunner who dies suddenly. When the journalist notices that they have a similar appearance, he assumes the recently deceased's identity and accepts the consequences that it brings.—MuzikJunky
Plot Keywords: reporter, arms dealer, love interest, wife, police detective, tense, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Documentary on reported Conservative bias of the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News Channel (FNC), which promotes itself as "Fair and Balanced". Material includes interviews with former FNC employees and the inter-office memos they provided.
Plot Keywords: news reporter, television star, business owner, boss, politician, critic, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Japanese reporter arrives in Vietnam hoping to capture the essence the society under the rule of the Communist Party. With the help of a vietnamese girl, he eventually opens his eyes to the painful truth of postwar Vietnam.—Cha <cha@hk.super.net>
Plot Keywords: photojournalist, villager, peasant, government official, child, mistress, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Richard Widmark plays a hardened cold-warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. Sidney Poitier is a reporter given permission to interview the captain during a routine patrol. Poitier gets more than he bargained for when the Bedford discovers a Soviet sub in the depths and the captain begins a relentless pursuit, pushing his crew to the breaking point. This one's grim tension to the end.—KC Hunt <khunt@eng.morgan.edu>
Plot Keywords: reporter, naval officer, commodore, seaman, captain, tense, chilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the early 1950's, the threat of Communism created an air of paranoia in the United States and exploiting those fears was Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin. However, CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow and his producer Fred W. Friendly decided to take a stand and challenge McCarthy and expose him for the fear monger he was. However, their actions took a great personal toll on both men, but they stood by their convictions and helped to bring down one of the most controversial senators in American history.
Plot Keywords: reporter, politician, employee, television producer, cool, engaging, patriotic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Johnny Barrett, an ambitious journalist, is determined to win a Pulitzer Prize by solving a murder committed in a lunatic asylum and witnessed only by three inmates, from whom the police have been unable to extract the information. With the connivance of a psychiatrist, and the reluctant help of his girlfriend, he succeeds in having himself declared insane and sent to the asylum. There he slowly tracks down and interviews the witnesses - but things are stranger than they seem ...—David Levene <D.S.Levene@durham.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: reporter, inmate, psychiatrist, girlfriend, witness, thrilling, tense ...
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