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.
Directed by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
war photographer
woman director
russo-ukrainian war
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3.8 / 5
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Cast
Lynsey Addario
Self - Photojournalist
Crew
Jimmy Chin
Director
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Director
Claudia Sarne
Original Music Composer
Thorsten Thielow
Director of Photography
Anna Barnes
Producer
Jimmy Chin
Producer
Carolyn Bernstein
Executive Producer
Emma D. Miller
Co-Producer
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Producer
Susan Jacobs
Music Supervisor
Ric Schnupp
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Clair Popkin
Additional Director of Photography
Popular Reviews
3 reviews
Matt Brammer
It's really difficult to rate something like this, because there are parts that I was completely in awe of and other bits that I couldn't care less about.
All of Addario's footage is amazing. The sequences in all of these war-torn countries are haunting, to say the least. Lynsey Addario is extremely brave and undeniably inspirational for continuing to be a journalist after all of these traumatizing experiences. And, on top of that, she gets some of the most incredible shots and videos that I've seen. From Ukraine to Libya, she's seen it all, occasionally getting more involved than she would like. If this movie were simply a catalog of her journeys, I would have found it much more engaging. It's once it dives into her past and her family that I stop caring.
I'm not sure why anyone working on this doc would think that people would be interested in what her annoying husband or screaming kids are up to when we could be learning about her time in Afghanistan. It pulls the rug out from underneath you after that jaw-dropping opening sequence. My respect for the highly professional journalism had me leaning towards 5 stars, but the other half (give or take) of this doc that covers completely uninteresting things has me leaning the other direction. So I'm leaving it unrated for now.
This would have worked much better as two separate docs, one about her life and the other about her journalism.
It's really difficult to rate something like this, because there are parts that I was completely in awe of and other bits that I couldn't care less about.
All of Addario's footage is amazing. The sequences in all of these war-torn countries are haunting, to say the least. Lynsey Addario is extremely brave and undeniably inspirational for continuing to be a journalist after all of these traumatizing experiences. And, on top of that, she gets some of the most incredible shots and videos that I've seen. From Ukraine to Libya, she's seen it all, occasionally getting more involved than she would like. If this movie were simply a catalog of her journeys, I would have found it much more engaging. It's once it dives into her past and her family that I stop caring.
I'm not sure why anyone working on this doc would think that people would be interested in what her annoying husband or screaming kids are up to when we could be learning about her time in Afghanistan. It pulls the rug out from underneath you after that jaw-dropping opening sequence. My respect for the highly professional journalism had me leaning towards 5 stars, but the other half (give or take) of this doc that covers completely uninteresting things has me leaning the other direction. So I'm leaving it unrated for now.
This would have worked much better as two separate docs, one about her life and the other about her journalism.
