Dalit female journalists staffing a newspaper in northern India are often the only ones brave enough to advocate the rights of raped women & seek improved conditions for villagers.
Writing With Fire (2022)
See Interview with NEWS OF THE WORLD Director Paul Greenglass
r This morning (Monday, Jan. 12) I was privileged to be part of a group of 7 film reviewers who met via Zoom with Paul Greenglass, director of the new Tom Hanks film NEWS OF THE WORLD. Look in on us on YouTube by clicking this. I think you’ll enjoy the film even more if …
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Citizen Kane (1941)
A man, unloved as a child & raised by a stranger, seeks love and power by publishing a newspaper, marrying well, & running for governor, his life ending alone.
Richard Jewell (2019)
Security guard Richard Jewell is falsely accused of making the bomb that killed 2 & injured over 100 people at the 1966 Atlantic Olympics.
ENTERTAINING ANGELS: The Dorothy Day Story (1996)
The early years of the work of activist Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker, is well told. An unlikely saint, she once wrote for a Communist journal.
CRY FREEDOM (1987)
The friendship of black activist Steve Biko & journalist Donald Woods, set in S. Africa, is told up to Steve’s death & Woods & family fleeing the country.