The story of journalists, chief of whom is Maria Ressa, waging an uphill battle in the Philippines against Pres. Dutertes & his murderous “War on Drugs,” made very difficult by the government’s lies on social media about its critics being “Fake News.”
A Dangerous Life (1988)
The reporter is fictional, but this film is based on the history of the Philippines when Corrie Aquino inspired her people to topple the Marcos dictatorship by standing against guns and tanks in the streets.
Neruda (2016)
In the late 1940s the Chilean poet Neruda is pursued by a vainglorious cop because the future Nobel Prize winner is a Communist beloved by the people.
The Interview (2014)
Two buffoon TV journalists, invited to interview the dictator of North Korea, are recruited by the CIA to assassinate him with poison.
The Last King of Scotland (2006)
When a white doctor just out of med school agrees to work for Idi Amin in Uganda, he discovers not only the man’s brutality but also hard to break away.