3 LIVE POLLS: Female Combat Reporters, Commentators & Photographers in Film

Upcoming Possible Female War Journalist Movies

(or Those That Never Got Made or are In Development Hell)

Jennifer Lawrence to star as Lynsey Addario in 'It's What I Do', a biopic of iconic war photographer who made a name for in a post 9/11 world and won a Pulitzer Prize for her work in Waziristan.

Hayley Atwell to star as Gerda Taro, the iconic Spanish Civil War photographer who made a name for herself during a time when female photojournalists weren’t often acknowledged.

Frank Darabont plans a Iva Toguri D'Aquino biopic about a Japanese-American woman, who was wrongly convicted of treason after World War 2 for being the Japanese propagandist, 'Tokyo Rose'.

Rooney Mara to star as Amanda Lindhout, a freelance war correspondent who was kidnapped by Islamic insurgents in southern Somalia in the biopic, A House in the Sky.

Carey Mulligan to star as  Kate Webb, the iconic Vietnam war journalist who made a name for herself during a time when female reporters weren’t often acknowledged.

Removed Female War Commentator Portion

Female War Journalist Wish List

(Biopic Movies, Documentaries, Fictional Films)

Notable TV Series War Correspondents & War Photographers

@Peter_pbn​  An underdeveloped and underappreciated subgenre in film, with a fair amount of real-life characters, not even having a noteworthy documentary made about their lives, let alone a biopic. It took Kate Winslet eight years to make 'Lee' after dozens of failed attempts over the decades by others. It is notable since her story seems to have everything you want when developing a story into a biopic, yet Winslet could only get it off the ground and green lit as an independent film.

I removed the only actress to win an Oscar by playing either a combat reporter, commentator or photographer. Then, I split the answer pool and question along real-life depictions in documentaries, fictional characters and biographical characters. It left each subtopic with dozen or so answers for each answer pool.

@Peter_pbn​ Thanks, corrected.

@dan_dassow,

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2 PS, 1 LIVE: Female Combat Reporters, Commentators & Photographers in Film

Which of these select fictional conflict correspondent, conflict commentator, or conflict photojournalist portrayals is your favorite characterization, so far?* *vote for the movie character portrayal, rather than the cited film 

@Jessica​ I removed 'Words of War' (2025) as an answer option. The poll suggestion, Biographical Female Combat Reporter, Commentator & Photographer Characters is more timely with 'Lee' (2024) now, than it will be in four months for the other biopic.

@Jessica​ I made the corrections to the Real-Life Combat Reporter, Commentator & Photographer Documentary Subjects poll suggestion.

@Pencho15​ Thanks