The 25 Best Journalism Movies

“Almost Famous” follows a teenage journalist in the ’70s who accompanies a touring rock band in order to write a feature article for Rolling Stone magazine, and learns a lot more than he’d expected during his time on the road.

This biographical drama recounts the horrendous period in Cambodia’s history when the Khmer Rouge killed over a million people, through the stories of two journalists – one American and one Cambodian – who put their lives in danger to cover the war.

In this fictionalized account of real events, Al Pacino plays Lowell Bergman, a CBS producer who takes on his network and the tobacco industry as he fights to air the story of a former tobacco company executive turned whistleblower.

This satirical black comedy concerns a news network with poor ratings as they fire a former star newscaster, only to exploit his deranged on-air reaction as ratings once again begin to soar.

When a cynical reporter whose career is in decline takes a job at a small New Mexico newspaper, he’ll do anything to restore his name to glory – including stalling the rescue efforts of a man stuck in a collapsed cliff dwelling in order to create a national media sensation.