The 25 Best Journalism Movies

When a presidential sex scandal hits the airwaves just weeks before the election, a top aide calls on the help of a spin doctor and a Hollywood producer to fabricate a war in Albania that will distract the nation and improve the president’s chances of reelection.

Set in 1971, this historical drama recounts the Washington Post’s fight for freedom of the press as the publisher attempted to report leaked information from the Pentagon Papers, detailing U.S military involvement in Southeast Asia from the 1940s to the Vietnam War.

Set in Indonesia during the reign of Sukarno, the country’s first president, this romantic drama is about an Australian reporter and a local photographer who navigate politics, friendship, and love on the eve of an attempted coup.

After a television reporter witnesses the assassination of a presidential candidate in Seattle, she notices that other witnesses are mysteriously dying and fears that she will be killed next. She turns to her old flame, a newspaper reporter who picks up the mantle to uncover who is behind the conspiracy.

Based on a novel by John le Carré, this drama-thriller involves a British diplomat in Kenya who is attempting to untangle a suspicious web of facts surrounding the death of his wife, an Amnesty International activist who was reporting on local fatalities caused by a trial pharmaceutical drug.