Before lightning strikes

6.7

The Menu

August 2016 •

The Menu is a 2016 Hong Kong drama film about journalism and the sequel to the television series of the same name.

7.5

Blood Diamond

December 2006 •English

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

6.6

The Year of Living Dangerously

December 1982 •English

Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There—on the eve of an attempted coup—he befriends a Chinese Australian photographer with a deep connection to and vast knowledge of the Indonesian people, and also falls in love with a British national.

6.4

Interview

July 2007 •English

After falling out with his editor, a fading political journalist is forced to interview America's most popular soap actress.

6.7

Veronica Guerin

July 2003 •English

In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.

7.0

Shattered Glass

November 2003 •English

The true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass, who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at The New Republic for three years. Looking for a short cut to fame, Glass concocted sources, quotes and even entire stories, but his deception did not go unnoticed forever, and eventually, his world came crumbling down.

5.9

The Sun Also Rises

August 1957 •English

A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920's France and Spain.

7.0

The Post

December 2017 •English

A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.

7.9

Ace in the Hole

June 1951 •English

An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career.

6.4

A Mighty Heart

June 2007 •English

Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.

6.2

Where the Truth Lies

October 2005 •English

An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.

6.5

The Hunting Party

September 2007 •English

A young journalist, an experienced cameraman and a discredited reporter find their bold plan to capture Bosnia's top war criminal quickly spiraling out of control when a UN representative mistakes them for a CIA hit squad.

7.5

The Insider

October 1999 •English

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.

6.8

It's Hard Being Loved by Jerks

September 2008 •French

The murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh by an Islamic extremist in 2004, followed by the publishing of twelve satirical cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed that was commissioned for the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, provides the incendiary framework for Daniel Leconte's provocative documentary, It's Hard Being Loved by Jerks.

3.5

Martyrs of journalism

January 2003 •Spanish

Eight journalists and their guide have been murdered by Uchuraccay. A Spanish reporter and his guide will travel to the place to find out what happened. This is the recreation of a story that could never be completely clear.

7.2

Kavan

March 2017 •Tamil

A budding journalist passionate about ethical, noble, hard-hitting journalism understands the more flourishing ghetto of sensationalism & news fabrication that the Entertainment TV Channel he belongs to, thrives on. When caught in a dilemma of whether to hold for a while or rise in protest, a situation forces him to make a decision that puts him out of work but… there begins his work.

6.8

Deadline - U.S.A.

March 1952 •English

With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.

6.1

In My Country

May 2004 •English

An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.

6.5

Rann

January 2010 •Hindi

The revered chief of a news agency tries to maintain journalistic integrity as his bureau and a rival agency vie for viewers following a terrorist attack.

6.3

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

March 2016 •English

In 2002, cable news producer Kim Barker decides to shake up her routine by taking a daring new assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dislodged from her comfortable American lifestyle, Barker finds herself in the middle of an out-of-control war zone. Luckily, she meets Tanya Vanderpoel, a fellow journalist who takes the shell-shocked reporter under her wing. Amid the militants, warlords and nighttime partying, Barker discovers the key to becoming a successful correspondent.

Before lightning strikes

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Cast

Horst Drinda

Christine Laszar

Herwart Grosse

Johannes Arpe

Margret Homeyer

Traute Sense

Werner Dissel

Jochen Thomas

Manfred Krug

Rolf Herricht

Peter Dommisch

Horst Kube

Wolf von Beneckendorff

Hannes Fischer

Heinz Schröder

Gerd Biewer

Rudi Schiemann

Friedrich Richter

Annemarie Hase

Erik S. Klein

Dieter Perlwitz

Heinz Hellmich

Angela Brunner

Paul R. Henker

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