Documentary Style
HistoricalMike Wallace is Here
The man whose name struck fear into presidents, dictators, and celebrities. A compelling portrait of the journalist who defined investigative television and his role in shaping modern media,
Year
2019
Type
film
Runtime
94 min
Language
English
Director
Avi Belkin
Genres
Summary
For fifty years, "Mike Wallace is here" struck fear into the most powerful people in the world. His confrontational 60 Minutes interviews with Nixon, Putin, Malcolm X, and Ayatollah Khomeini defined investigative journalism and set the template for modern media.
Built from never-before-seen raw tapes from the 60 Minutes vault, the film interrogates the interrogator through split-screen footage revealing what editing hid - reactions, pauses, genuine discomfort. The film doesn't shy from Wallace's contradictions: depression, personal tragedy, and suppressing a landmark 1996 tobacco interview under corporate pressure.
A portrait of journalism's most feared practitioner - and how confrontational media evolved from watchdog to spectacle.