The 25 Best Journalism Movies

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15. Salvador (1986)
> IMDb user rating: 7.4/10 (20,466 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 86% (8,547 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 89% (27 reviews)
> Directed by: Oliver Stone

Co-written by Richard Boyle, a U.S. photojournalist who covered the Salvadoran Civil War, this historical drama depicts Boyle as he attempts to help his former girlfriend and her children escape El Salvador while rebels battle a military dictatorship and innocent people pay the price.

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14. Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
> IMDb user rating: 7.4/10 (96,071 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 83% (142,741 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 93% (226 reviews)
> Directed by: George Clooney

This historical drama chronicles the dedication of journalist Edward R. Murrow and his producer Fred Friendly in taking down the fearmongering anti-communist senator Joseph McCarthy during the height of the Second Red Scare.

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13. Foreign Correspondent (1940)
> IMDb user rating: 7.5/10 (19,743 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 81% (6,923 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 95% (42 reviews)
> Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

A black-and-white spy thriller, “Foreign Correspondent” follows an American reporter on assignment in London as he attempts to uncover an extensive European spy ring on the eve of World War II.

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12. Frost/Nixon (2008)
> IMDb user rating: 7.7/10 (105,809 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 88% (109,887 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 93% (259 reviews)
> Directed by: Ron Howard

Based on a play by Peter Morgan, “Frost/Nixon” recounts the famous interviews of Richard Nixon that took place three years after his resignation, highlighting the proficiency of the young talk-show host that succeeded in coaxing the former president into opening up about the Watergate scandal.

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11. Nightcrawler (2014)
> IMDb user rating: 7.8/10 (495,525 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 86% (86,557 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 95% (274 reviews)
> Directed by: Dan Gilroy

When an unscrupulous petty thief begins documenting crimes and graphic accidents to sell footage to a local news station, he starts partaking in the scenes in order to get the best shots and a higher payout.

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