The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo

A two-year investigation uncovers a scandal behind the making of one of the most recognized photographs of the 20th century. Five decades of secrets are unraveled in the search for justice for a man known only as "the stringer."

Love+War

♡ 3

Pulitzer Prize-winning conflict photojournalist Lynsey Addario reflects on a career working in some of the world's most dangerous war zones, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Before the Rain

1994

Macedonian

7.8

♡ 14

92%

Milcho Manchevski Director

Rade Serbedzija as Aleksander

Katrin Cartlidge as Anne

Daniel Newman as Ian

Grégoire Colin as Kiril

The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during the war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant.

Hearts and Bones

2019

English

6.6

♡ 6

81%

Ben Lawrence Director

Hugo Weaving as Dan Fisher

Alan Dukes as Graham Fisher

Ava Caryofyllis as Iraqi Minefield Girl

Hayley McElhinney as Josie Avril

A shell-shocked photojournalist, haunted by what he has witnessed on assignment in Africa, returns home on the eve of becoming a father. When one of his photographs threatens to destroy a Sudanese refugee's new life, the two men are reunited by nightmare events from the past.

Under Fire

1983

English

7.0

♡ 19

90%

husband wife relationship

Roger Spottiswoode Director

Alma Martinez as Isela

Ed Harris as Oates

Eloy Casados as Pedro

Nick Nolte as Russell Price

Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.

Minamata

2020

English

♡ 53

78%

Andrew Levitas Director

Ryô Kase as Kiyoshi

Hiroyuki Sanada as Mitsuo Yamazaki

Bill Nighy as Robert Hayes

Johnny Depp as W. Eugene Smith

War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities.

Louder Than Bombs

2015

English

6.6

♡ 39

73%

parent child relationship

sibling relationship

war photographer

Joachim Trier Director

Megan Ketch as Amy

Rachel Brosnahan as Erin

Amy Ryan as Hannah

Jesse Eisenberg as Jonah

Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isabelle’s photographs prompts Gene's older son, Jonah, to return to the house he grew up in - and for the first time in a very long time, the father and the two brothers are living under the same roof.

Shooting the Darkness

2019

English

7.4

♡ 1

1970s

Documentary

ira (irish republican army)

Tom Burke Director

Queen Elizabeth II as Self

Theresa May as Self

Gerry Adams as Self

Paul Faith as Self - Photographer for Pacemaker

The testimony of the men who unwittingly became war photographers on the streets of their own towns in Northern Ireland, when violence erupted around them. Instead of photographing weddings and celebrities, as they expected, they produced the images that crudely show the suffering of ordinary people between 1968 and 1998, the worst years of the conflict.

You Are Not a Soldier

2021

Portuguese

8.0

♡ 3

Action

Documentary

father daughter relationship

Maria Carolina Telles Director

Andre Liohn as

As filmmaker Maria Carolina Telles comes to terms with the death of her father, a man who regretted never making it to the frontlines of World War II, she focuses her lens on the life of another man who had his own unique experience as a civilian in the midst of combat: award-winning war photographer André Liohn.

1,000 Times Good Night

2013

Norwegian

7.0

♡ 3

Drama

husband wife relationship

mother daughter relationship

photojournalism

War

war photographer

Erik Poppe Director

Peter Coonan as Father #2

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Marcus

Juliette Binoche as Rebecca

Mads Ousdal as Stig

On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber in Kabul, Rebecca – one of the world’s top war photojournalists - gets badly hurt. Back home, another bomb drops as her husband and daughters give her an ultimatum: her work or her family.

War Photographer

2001

English

7.9

♡ 2

photographic evidence

War

war photographer

Christian Frei Director

Hans-Hermann Klare as Foreign Editor STERN Magazine

James Nachtwey as Photographer

Denis O'Neill as Screenwriter / Jim's Best Friend

Christiane Amanpour as Self - Chief International Correspondent CNN

Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever.

Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud

2025

English

7.4

♡ 3

On March 13, 2022, filmmaker Brent Renaud was killed by Russian soldiers, the first American journalist to die while reporting on the war in Ukraine. His younger brother and collaborator, Craig Renaud, recovered Brent’s body and his final recordings from Ukraine and brought them back to their childhood home in Arkansas. As Brent’s journey to his final resting place unfolds, the film chronicles the years he and his brother spent covering some of the world’s most dangerous conflicts.

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The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo

Love+War

Before the Rain

Hearts and Bones

Under Fire

Minamata

Louder Than Bombs

Shooting the Darkness

You Are Not a Soldier

1,000 Times Good Night

War Photographer

Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud