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Amazon Prime Video
85
8.1
/14172/
78
/496/
75
/179/
4.0
/23152/
89
95
/24/

Collective (2019)
In the aftermath of a tragic fire in a Romanian club, burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life threatening. A team of investigative journalists move into action uncovering the mass corruption of the health system and of the state institutions. Collective follows journalists, whistle blowers, and authorities alike. An immersive and uncompromising look into a dysfunctional system, exposing corruption, propaganda, and manipulation that nowadays affect not only Romania, but societies around the world.
poster
84
7.9
/136462/
78
/3582/
76
/1995/
4.2
/205658/
94
/71/
92
/2245/
84
/18/
cc age 13+

All the President's Men (1976)
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
81
7.6
/28506/
72
/844/
71
/352/
3.6
/20704/
97
/152/
88
/678/
90
/39/
cc age 17+

Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
An Oscar nominated documentary about a middle-class American family who is torn apart when the father Arnold and son Jesse are accused of sexually abusing numerous children. Director Jarecki interviews people from different sides of this tragic story and raises the question of whether they were rightfully tried when they claim they were innocent and there was never any evidence against them.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
7.8
/229624/
78
/6700/
75
/3143/
3.8
/78778/
85
/186/
87
/6163/
76
/36/
cc age 18+

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece
poster
The Roku Channel
80
7.4
/35477/
73
/876/
72
/497/
3.8
/21246/
88
/42/
81
/448/
81
/16/
cc age 13+

The China Syndrome (1979)
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicize the incident, but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
80
8.0
/91541/
81
/3188/
78
/1980/
4.0
/92147/
91
/46/
91
/608/
71
/18/

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010)
After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prisoners. Matias is transferred to the corrupted Military Police and Nascimento is exonerated from the BOPE by the Governor.
poster
Peacock Premium
78
7.3
/48910/
72
/1953/
72
/687/
3.6
/110249/
88
/279/
91
/177/
74
/51/
cc age 15+

She Said (2022)
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.4
/22709/
74
/1711/
72
/427/
3.8
/57696/
94
/119/
86
/125/
76
/28/

Tickled (2016)
Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn’t stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.1
/39871/
69
/630/
69
/461/
3.4
/52926/
92
/163/
79
/1301/
73
/38/
cc age 13+

Shattered Glass (2003)
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.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
76
7.1
/45752/
70
/2848/
67
/742/
3.6
/82529/
94
/156/
83
/172/
79
/29/
cc age 15+

Bad Education (2019)
A superintendent of a school district works for the betterment of the student’s education when an embezzlement scheme is discovered, threatening to destroy everything.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
76
7.1
/2784/
71
/144/
69
/62/
3.5
/3293/
100
/34/
76
/12/
83
/9/
cc age 15+

Roll Red Roll (2019)
At a 2012 pre-season high-school football party in Steubenville, Ohio, a young woman was raped by members of the beloved high school football team. The aftermath exposed an entire culture of complicity—and Roll Red Roll maps out the roles that peer pressure, denial, sports machismo, and social media each played in the tragedy.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.4
/1065/
73
/67/
65
/12/
3.6
/1625/
95
/91/
86
/1/
72
/24/

Mike Wallace Is Here (2019)
For over half a century, 60 Minutes' fearsome newsman Mike Wallace went head-to-head with the world's most influential figures. Relying exclusively on archival footage, the film interrogates the interrogator, tracking Wallace's storied career and troubled personal life while unpacking how broadcast journalism evolved to today’s precarious tipping point.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
6.9
/18300/
70
/849/
67
/446/
4.7
/253/
86
/106/
77
/75/
68
/19/
cc age 15+

Mr. Jones (2019)
In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.
poster
75
7.1
/103347/
68
/2154/
70
/2042/
3.5
/242771/
74
/163/
78
/4088/
70
/37/
cc age 17+

Elephant (2003)
Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.
poster
Kanopy
74
7.4
/9514/
75
/502/
70
/151/
3.5
/3465/
84
/70/
74
/186/
76
/18/

Dirty Wars (2013)
Investigative journalist, Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America's expanding covert wars, and examines how the US government has responded to international terrorist threats in ways that seem to go against the established laws of the land.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
74
7.5
/79902/
74
/2617/
70
/1182/
3.5
/20276/
70
/77/
75
/714/
64
/24/
cc age 17+

Disconnect (2013)
A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can't find the time to communicate with his family. An estranged couple uses the internet as a means to escape from their lifeless marriage. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide as ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world.
poster
Netflix
71
7.0
/25715/
71
/2163/
68
/557/
3.3
/21929/
85
/55/
67
/119/
67
/18/
cc age 15+

The Great Hack (2019)
Data—arguably the world’s most valuable asset—is being weaponized to wage cultural and political wars. The dark world of data exploitation is uncovered through the unpredictable, personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data story.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
6.8
/6220/
68
/145/
68
/100/
3.4
/1866/
87
/83/
67
/269/
68
/26/

The Yes Men (2003)
A comic, biting and revelatory documentary following a small group of prankster activists as they gain worldwide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization (WTO) on television and at business conferences around the world.
poster
71
7.1
/165723/
71
/4125/
68
/2076/
3.4
/50004/
84
/213/
73
/6319/
64
/36/
cc age 15+

State of Play (2009)
When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.
poster
73
69
7.4
/11338/
73
/234/
67
/169/
3.6
/7576/
81
/21/
74
/147/

Call Northside 777 (1948)
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
69
6.6
/13941/
70
/1403/
65
/294/
3.4
/21506/
89
/81/
59
/101/
62
/12/
cc age 16+

My Scientology Movie (2016)
After being denied access to the Church of Scientology's headquarters, documentarian Louis Theroux teams up with ex-Scientology official Marty Rathbun to stage re-enactments of alleged abuses within the organization. Theroux soon discovers that the church is watching his every move.
poster
68
6.9
/50027/
69
/2252/
66
/895/
3.3
/14140/
76
/129/
69
/436/
60
/36/
cc age 16+

Kill the Messenger (2014)
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
64
5.8
/6598/
59
/811/
60
/185/
3.1
/17467/
87
/55/
56
/40/
61
/5/
cc age 15+

Monolith (2023)
A desperate young journalist turns to podcasting to salvage her career, but her rush to make headlines leads her to an alien conspiracy.
poster
Hulu
64
6.5
/40520/
67
/2603/
66
/804/
3.1
/68590/
67
/141/
67
/85/
58
/30/
cc age 15+

Boston Strangler (2023)
Reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole bravely pursue the story of the Boston Strangler at great personal risk, putting their own lives on the line in their quest to uncover the truth.
poster
63
6.9
/24733/
69
/1997/
67
/689/
3.2
/22077/
57
/7/
57
/1290/
cc age 11+

Superman: Doomsday (2007)
When LexCorp accidentally unleashes a murderous creature, Superman meets his greatest challenge as a champion. Based on the "The Death of Superman" storyline that appeared in DC Comics' publications in the 1990s.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
62
6.7
/26722/
66
/553/
65
/346/
3.2
/3168/
56
/91/
67
/1641/
54
/22/
cc age 17+

The Hunting Party (2007)
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.
poster
Netflix
71
61
7.2
/2589/
72
/254/
74
/47/
3.4
/1836/
69
cc age 13+

Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard (2022)
Upstart payment firm Wirecard wowed the financial industry with its runaway success — until a tenacious team of journalists exposed massive fraud.
poster
fuboTV
75
61
7.0
/3059/
68
/70/
66
/44/
3.4
/1344/
100
/11/
79
/129/

Balibo (2009)
As Indonesia prepares to invade the tiny nation of East Timor, five Australian based journalists go missing. Four weeks later, veteran foreign correspondent Roger East is lured to East Timor by the young and charismatic José Ramos-Horta to tell the story of his country and investigate the fate of the missing men. As East's determination to uncover the truth grows, the threat of invasion intensifie
poster
Amazon Prime Video
61
6.8
/26916/
68
/790/
67
/491/
3.4
/14644/
64
/22/
59
/392/
38
/8/

Capricorn One (1977)
In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing. Under threat of harm to their families the astronauts play their part in the deception on a staged set in a deserted military base. But once the real ship returns to Earth and burns up on re-entry, the astronauts become liabilities. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a sinister conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden.
poster
71
58
7.2
/4757/
71
/111/
68
/74/
3.5
/3124/
78
/9/
70
/19/

Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)
With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.
poster
Netflix
60
58
6.0
/11933/
60
/314/
62
/349/
2.8
/2209/
63
/599/

Bordertown (2007)
American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products. Lauren Adrian, an impassioned American news reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan assigns her to investigate a series of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown.
poster
77
57
8.0
/1941/
72
/83/
71
/21/
4.0
/1888/
87
/107/
73
/616/

Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle (2016)
Alan leaves behind his comfortable existence and heads to the north to ask whether, in this once united kingdom, a 'schasm' has formed between north and south, between the haves and have-nots.
poster
AMC+
56
5.5
/14715/
57
/462/
54
/233/
2.7
/5209/
83
/6/
34
/251/

The Shrine (2010)
A group of young journalists investigate a cult said to practice human sacrifice, but their ambitious ways may lead them to becoming the cult's next victims.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
56
6.2
/16686/
61
/535/
57
/319/
2.9
/3573/
55
/11/
46
/609/
cc age 17+

Assassination of a High School President (2008)
After the theft of copies of SAT exams from a principal's office, teenage reporter Bobby Funke sets out to unmask the thief.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
54
6.4
/9658/
68
/614/
63
/187/
2.9
/4070/
28
/46/
43
/95/
47
/18/

Shock and Awe (2017)
A group of journalists covering George Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the presidents claim that Saddam Hussein has "weapons of mass destruction."
poster
54
6.6
/65384/
66
/1287/
63
/921/
3.1
/14437/
35
/154/
49
/2898/
45
/29/
cc age 18+

Pride and Glory (2008)
A saga centered on a multi-generational family of New York City Police officers. The family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney, investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law. For Ray, the truth is revelatory, a Pandora's Box that threatens to upend not only the Tierney legacy but the entire NYPD.
poster
52
6.3
/75494/
65
/3687/
62
/2047/
2.9
/53316/
45
/167/
38
/454/
50
/40/
cc age 17+

True Story (2015)
A drama centered on the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.
poster
The Roku Channel
51
5.5
/4057/
59
/251/
57
/164/
2.6
/3619/
40
/86/
47
/45/
53
/24/
cc age 15+

Flag Day (2021)
A father lives a double life as a counterfeiter, bank robber and con man in order to provide for his daughter.
poster
51
6.2
/43915/
65
/2284/
60
/1056/
2.8
/18308/
35
/176/
36
/581/
49
/42/
cc age 15+

The Fifth Estate (2013)
A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
poster
Netflix
57
50
6.3
/4826/
63
/387/
59
/92/
3.1
/7730/
42
/7/
cc age 16+

Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes (2021)
Serial killer Dennis Nilsen narrates his life and horrific crimes via a series of chilling audiotapes recorded from his jail cell.
poster
Fandor
48
5.8
/15833/
58
/535/
57
/449/
2.9
/19605/
7
/14/
51
/319/

Ring 2 (1999)
While investigating the horrifying death of her boyfriend, Mai Takano learns about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a disturbing girl named Sadako, which kills anyone who watches it exactly one week later. When her boyfriend’s son, Yoichi, starts to develop the same psychic abilities as Sadako, Takano must find a way to keep the boy and herself from becoming the next victims.
poster
Netflix
65
45
6.5
/2718/
67
/238/
63
/48/
3.2
/2949/
69
/3/
cc age 14+

Murder by the Coast (2021)
In 1999, teen Rocío Wanninkhof is murdered. Her mother's ex-partner, Dolores Vázquez, is suspected. Did she do it? A second victim reveals the truth.
poster
Plex
50
45
5.3
/6358/
53
/152/
55
/135/
2.4
/3767/
50
/6/
45
/514/

Feed (2005)
A cybercrime investigator tracks a man suspected of force-feeding women to death.
poster
The Roku Channel
44
4.9
/28084/
60
/3932/
61
/1223/
1.9
/20016/
12
/106/
82
/686/
27
/22/
cc age 14+

Blacklight (2022)
Travis Block is a shadowy Government agent who specializes in removing operatives whose covers have been exposed. He then has to uncover a deadly conspiracy within his own ranks that reaches the highest echelons of power.
poster
76
42
7.4
/1958/
69
/59/
76
/181/
3.8
/6062/
85
/3/

Slap the Monster on Page One (1972)
Days before the general election, after a girl from a rich family is murdered in an attempted rape, the editor-in-chief of a conservative tabloid tries to derail the police investigation in order to help the right-wing candidates supported by his bosses.
poster
75
40
7.3
/809/
75
/47/
69
/26/
3.4
/490/
100
/6/
64
/1/
79
/4/

Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World (2018)
A first-hand look into the revolutionary rise of the “citizen investigative journalist” collective known as Bellingcat. Comprised of various distinct personalities from around the globe, Bellingcat is an online association of talented and dedicated truth-seekers utilizing advanced digital research techniques to upend the world of journalism. De facto leader Eliot and his fellow researchers give us exclusive access into their tight-knit world as they demonstrate the unlimited power of open source investigation. In cases ranging from the MH17 disaster to the hidden crimes of the Syrian regime, the group’s power and growing global influence is examined and explored.
poster
78
40
7.7
/468/
74
/22/
57
/10/
4.0
/2174/
100
/13/
85
/12/

Utopia (2013)
Documentary by John Pilger looks at the awful truth behind white Australia's dysfunctional relationship with Indigenous Australians
poster
Netflix
55
38
5.5
/1253/
58
/201/
56
/41/
2.7
/1669/
cc age 14+

Rosa Peral's Tapes (2023)
This true-crime documentary film features Rosa Peral's first interview from prison since she was convicted of murdering her partner aided by an ex-lover.


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