10 Best Journalism Movies In The World (2018)

 

10 Best Journalism Movies In The World (2018)

 

Some persons could get inspired to go into certain professions because of movies themed around specific disciplines. Some others who are already in another field could get basic knowledge of what operates in another field through movies.

Journalism as a profession is very tasking and demanding, with intrigues that could make good movie scripts. Some movie producers have tapped into the suspense-filled nature of journalism to produce movies with plots woven around this profession. This is what is referred to here as journalism movies. Here is a list of the top 10 best journalism movies in the world based on rankings by expert movie critics and box-office ratings. Some of these films are still big-time classics which you can still watch today and still be thrilled.

 

10. His Girl Friday (1940)

The Howard Hawks classic skews toward romantic comedy, with a newspaper editor (Cary Grant) using any and all means to keep his ex-wife and star reporter (Rosalind Russell) from remarrying. But it also has some interesting things to say about how obsessed folks can get in the news business.

9. Broadcast News (1987)

Holly Hunter is the spark plug here as the female part of a love triangle involving her TV news producer having to deal with the egos of a smooth-talking anchorman-to-be (William Hurt) and a shlubby but talented reporter (Albert Brooks). It deserves kudos for making you really feel the stress of creating a live news show.

8. Shattered Glass (2003)

While Hayden Christensen gets flak for his wooden acting in the Star Wars prequels, he gives the performance of his career with the rise and spectacular fall of the skeezy Stephen Glass, a go-getting New Republic writer who was busted for fabricating most of his stories. (Any J-school grad will tell you that’s a big no-no.)

7. The Insider (1999)

Director Michael Mann brings his cool filmmaking style to the worlds of whistleblowers and Big Tobacco. Based on a 60 Minutes exposé, the gripping thriller features a CBS producer (Al Pacino) working with a biochemist (Russell Crowe) to get the word out on a cigarette manufacturer adding chemicals to make them more addictive.

6. The Post (2017)

It’s not too early to put Spielberg’s all-star drama in the pantheon of great newspaper flicks. Meryl Streep is simply awesome as Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham and Tom Hanks is editor Ben Bradlee as the two weigh personal and professional sacrifices in exposing a government cover-up about the Vietnam War.

5. Zodiac (2007)

David Fincher’s period mystery thriller is freaky and fabulous as it pits both police and the newshounds of the San Francisco Chronicle against the notorious Zodiac killer of the late ’60s/early ’70s. It’s got a cool vibe and a great cast, especially Jake Gyllenhaal as a cartoonist who goes way down a dark rabbit hole. (Dig him in this? Cue up 2014’s Nightcrawler as a chaser.)

4. Network (1976)

It’s fair to say that in the past year, quite a number of people at least thought if not shouted, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!” The satire feels crazy-current in its premise of a network with flagging ratings riding its suicidal, unhinged anchorman to populist glory — with Peter Finch unleashing a raging rant for the ages.

3. Spotlight (2015)

While The Post looks at the grander importance of digging up the truth, the wondrous best-picture winner Spotlight explores the more intimate quest of reporters hounding sources and doing the grunt work of investigative journalism to expose those who abuse power — in this case, sexual abuse of kids by Catholic priests in Boston.

2. Citizen Kane (1941)

Childhood sleds and the legend of Orson Welles often get bandied about when discussing what many consider the best movie of all time. What sneakily lies within Kane, though, is a cracking good journalistic story, with power going to the head of a newspaper magnate (Welles) and a reporter (William Alland) unearthing his complicated legacy.

1. All the President’s Men (1976)

The only movie where a close-up of a busy typewriter equals a perfect and satisfying ending. The mother of all reportage dramas is part political thriller, part detective yarn and all entertaining with Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as The Washington Post reporters who — with the help of the enigmatic Deep Throat — took down a crooked commander in chief like a couple of coffee-drinking, paper-passing superheroes.

(source: usatoday.com)