200 Movies about Journalism
/2023
Boston Strangler - Two underestimated female journalists battle sexism as they are the first to connect the 1960s Boston Strangler murders.
Freelance - An ex-special forces operative hired to protect a journalist becomes involved in a coup in South America.
Line of Fire (aka Darklands) - An Australian blogger and amateur journalist pursues her relentlessly for an interview, unwittingly endangering her family.
The Night Doctrine - When an Afghan journalist tries to discover who murdered her family 30 years ago, she uncover hundreds of civilians killed in a secretive American-backed program. This short animated documentary was produced by ProPublica.
2022
Endangered - A year in the life of four journalists reporting inside Mexico, Brazil and the US.
The Independent - A young young journalist teams up with a legendary journalist to uncover a conspiracy that places the fate of a presidential election. A mediocre effort.
The Killing of a Journalist - A young investigative journalist and his fiancée are murdered in Slovakia. Their deaths inspire the biggest protests in the country since the fall of communism. The police file about the murders are leaked, leading to the revelation of high level corruption.
Lyra - The life of Northern Irish investigative journalist Lyra McKee through her own work and words. She was murdered by political radicals in 2019.
She Said - Two New York Times reporters break a story that helped propel the #Metoo movement. Slow but focused on the journalism.
Vengence - A dark comedy about a journalist and podcaster who investigates the death of a woman he was seeing romantically.
2021
C’mon C’mon - (Joaquin Phoenix) A radio journalist interviews children about the future.
The French Dispatch - Wes Anderson’s stylized tribute to longform journalism. A collection of stories published by a fictional American newspaper in a French town come to life.
Profile - An unethical TV reporter impersonates an Islamic convert to catfish an ISIS soldier. The gimmicky and outlandish plot plays out on a computer screen.
Storm Lake - Iowa's Storm Lake Times, fights for survival of th biweekly small-town newspaper.
Writing With Fire - Meet the journalists behind India’s only all-female news organization. The filmmakers say this documentary shows “the raw power of independent journalism.”