Films like The Bang Bang Club
In the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva - bonded by their friendship and a sense of purpose, worked together to chronicle the violence and uphe...
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Lee
Film · 2024 · also drama and historyThe true story of photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.
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Escape from Pretoria
Film · 2020 · also drama and historySouth Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion...
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Under Fire
Film · 1983 · also dramaThree U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
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Gorillas in the Mist
Film · 1988 · also drama and historyThe story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
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The Killing Fields
Film · 1984 · also drama and historyNew York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al R...
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Civil War
Film · 2024 · also dramaIn the near future, a group of war journalists attempt to survive while reporting the truth as the United States stands on the brink of civil war.
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Shepherds and Butchers
Film · 2017 · also dramaA lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.
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Salvador
Film · 1986 · also dramaIn 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while...
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Minamata
Film · 2020 · also drama and historyWar photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities.
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The Great War
Film · 2019 · also drama and historyIn November of 1918 as World War I was ending, a unit of American soldiers goes behind enemy lines to find a lost platoon of African American soldiers.
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