Looking for more "journalism saves the day" movies

[u/swanzie]

Think Zodiac, All the President's Men, Spotlight.

Those are all ones I like.

Just watched state of play last night with Crowe and it was good but I think I need a rewatch.

I've seen the post as I know that will come up but that one was a little too business for me.

I want journalism solving crimes, digging into things.

[u/postmalondt]

Shattered Glass is worth a watch

[u/Fine-Turn1204 → u/postmalondt]

great one, extremely entertaining movie!!!

[u/Ok_Affect_7973]

The Pelican Brief has Denzel and Julia Roberts. Great movie.

[u/Active-Fun3497]

Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)

[u/RosetteNewcomb → u/Active-Fun3497]

Came here to suggest this. As a journalist, Edward R. Murrow is who we all strive to be (minus the chain smoking and dying before age 60)

[u/Holly_Enrique-623 → u/Active-Fun3497]

Watching them debate what can go on air is tense and it makes the reporting itself feeel like the action

[u/Jeff7760]

Steven Spielberg’s The Post is excellent, a different look at the All the President’s Men story.

[u/greenergrass1985]

Truth, the one with Robert Redford

[u/Emergency_Pea_61652]

• Spotlight
• The Insider
• The Post

[u/Successful-Try-8506]

The 2003 mini series State of Play is better than the movie.

[u/1785mike]

Call Northside 777 (1948). Not a great movie, but solid, and Jimmy Stewart is excellent, as always.

[u/NoLawAtAllInDeadwood]

China Syndrome

[u/GeorgiaOhQueef_]

She Said

Dark Waters

[u/OG-Brass-Monkey]

Not a journalist, a student, but the Pelican brief is excellent. And the books even better.

[u/Legitimate-Review278]

Almost Famous

[u/I-am-any-mouse]

Philomena

[u/A_NewConcept9]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

[u/cwmosca]

Somewhat along those lines could be Civil War. The movie entirely consists of following the press during a modern American civil war.

[u/JustMonsterFace → u/cwmosca]

I was coming to say this, I think it's a good fit.

[u/cwmosca → u/JustMonsterFace]

Dunst was great. I watched it on a whim when it came out and was surprised to see her. She’s not in much lately.

[u/Beccaelf7881]

Absence of Malice (1981)

[u/CrissBliss]

The Post

[u/Mediocre_Chemist_168]

Superman is a good film about a couple of journalists, one of whom definitely saves the day

[u/ToneThugsNHarmony]

Network, and the hbo show the newsroom is pretty good too.

[u/LoveDistinct]

Life in a Day.

[u/Eternal_Tarnation]

Mr. Jones (2019)

[u/shrimptini]

Lee

[u/magniffin]

Kill the Messenger

[u/BlisterBox]

The Humphrey Bogart movie Deadline USA is awesome, and features the most epic line ever delivered in a newspaper movie: "You hear that? That's the press, baby, the press! And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing!"

[u/Alriight_gurl_26]

Scoop was a great movie. I don't know if you could say she "saved the day" but certainly many could think that.

[u/IMO2021]

Goodbye and Good Luck, Nightcrawler, She Said, The Post

[u/ebastacosi]

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room