Reporters At War: Dying To Tell A Story (EMMY AWARD WINNING) | Real Stories 

thanks so much for your contribution. I am Vietnamese and was born in a peaceful phase when is no war as well as no starvation. I am now can look back the past to see, think what happened partly, it was so so sad. I indeed appreciate and love your work.

*This is the 1st documentary where I literally cried from beginning to end!* All these reporters who risked their lives for the sake of media should've been given medals of honor as well, and a lifetime worth of counseling! *this is why soldiers return home forever changed* Just beyond devastating!!! 💯

Dear Emerson and to any reporter…dead or alive…your work may have or may have not changed anything, but you have touched our hearts. Very few can lay claim to that.

These images of war really bring things into perspective. Such sorrow and pain we bring upon one another. Very Sad....

I wish she would know that her work does make a difference. I was born in East Africa had to leave due to civil war, moved to Libya, Egypt and Europe before living in Australia. If it weren't for people like her and political activists, my family and I probably wouldn't be here let alone alive. Beautiful woman! ❤

This was well done. It was heart wrenching seeing those pictures and videos. I respect these reporters/journalists going into these places not knowing if they will make it out alive. Thank you for sharing this everyone should watch it.

Whenever this subject crops up, the first person I think of is the late Neil Davis, an Australian 'video journalist' who travelled with the VC during Vietnam and captured some of the most iconic footage of that war. Also Hitchens.

Seeing those little kids and babies was devastating. Poor little angels. How do you get this out of your head?

i watched this this documentary maybe 13 years ago and never forgot it, but could never find it anywhere. thanks for uploading this.

That journalist in Europe pushing the man out of the way to put a camera in a dying girls face deserves all the angst.

If it weren't for journalists, and people like whistle blowers, we wouldn't be informed. I admire the courage you all have to go out there in the middle of a war and report history in the making.

The story at 45:00 from Jon Steele is stunning and absolutely terrifying. That schoolteacher that saved them is an angel. I desperately hope that he wasn't killed, but it's very possible that he was. And Steele's experience in Sarajevo was absolutely devastating.. how his traumatic experience led him to go to Sniper Alley and wish for a bullet from a Serb sniper to kill him. It was brave of him to share his stories and the shame that he felt from his experiences. I hope he is well now and at peace.

I have huge respect for these war correspondents. Thank you for sharing this documentary.

The woman at 15:43 ended her life in 2004 when she found out she had Parkinson's disease. She was 75

War is the absolute worst humanity has to offer. Those who call for endless war and death have no clue what it is those who fight the wars and those who report on them experience. The sounds, smells, images and memories never leave you. The death of innocence haunt you until your last breath. Anyone who says any differently is either being truly dishonest with themselves or are heartless, soulless and godless.

Man, it was so nice to see Andy Rooney again. He stayed with the show until he was 92. Miss that guy.

Excellent. Whatever one can say about the Media, these courageous people go into harms way and are not immune to the horrors of war and some have paid the ultimate price in relaying the truth in their journalism. Thank you. God Bless.

brilliant doc, ive said it once and ill say it again, real stories is one of the best channels on here

The pen is mightier than the sword! Dear Journalists and war correspondents never give up. The world needs you now more than ever.

I really appreciate the lady reporter of Vietnam reporting the actual consequences of war to the ordinary people for whom the stupid war is being fought

It's really interesting that some of the male reporters described their experiences as exciting, fun, interesting, "besides the horror", and the reporter woman that covered Vietnam war described it as "ice melted in water" as something that made no positive impact whatsoever... Also she mentioned male covered more of the battles and bombs, and stuff like that, and she was more interested in the vietnamese people perspective and impact of the war... Two very different ways to experience similar situations...

Hard to watch but very informative. Thank you for uploading.

What a brilliant documentary. Imagine the stories that these people could tell, if you went for a drink with them.

Appreciation and respect to all the journalist who risk their life's to show us what's going on in this world

Great post! Also I love the accent of those old British reporters.

Bill Stewart was a WCCO television reporter and anchor prior to his death. His colleagues and friends had to announce on the evening broadcast that he had been murdered. It was heartbreaking to see and hear Stewart’s media family . . . R.I.P. and bless all reporters for what you do to bring knowledge to the world!!

That was brilliant. Thanks for the upload.

How their eyes looked the same, hollow. The look of someone who had seen the end of the world and lived to tell the tale.

Without a doubt, this is the best doc on the topic that I've ever watched.... the horror.... the horror... the horror... It is also interesting that in the entire time of World War two, we lost sixty-three journalists. In Gaza since October, almost eighty journalists have been killed... To the man who looked into the camera lens and realized that little girl saw herself... please be at peace with what you did. You are not at fault. "If my camera lens could speak, it would tell you things you wouldn't want to hear." -Chuck Jines

Excellent documentary

The first image of war I saw was in I think the Bosnian war where a camera shows a guy crawling on the ground then pans down and the guy had his legs blown off. I'll never forget the look on the man's face because to me as quite a young kid I thought he looked calm but it was obviously shock. He wasn't screaming or even wincing in pain, just quite blank faced. I haven't finished watching yet so I wonder if that video will be in this documentary.

The Man playing the cello got to me. I cried. That felt almost as powerful as Tank Man.

I'm Serbian, and its sad to see. We are all the same blood, same language and same people and its sad to say but this situation and violent unnecessary deaths was the same on our end, was no different to the side told within Bosnia. I've lost countless family including my father and was forced to run from my home and even move overseas to Australia.

24:10 Her words are so sad. She speaks with anguish and regret. She must have suffered for her decision.

It makes me feel so ashamed to hear someone from the American military defend our guys killing journalists.

Excellent film. Thank you for sharing.

very balanced documentary, without getting too much into political viewpoints, I enjoyed it. I just wonder why they left out the war reporters that killed themselves due to the pressure accumulated on the job

49:35- "do you believe in angels,Dave"? 😓

One of the best documentrys I have seen on war reporters, albeit one of the saddest that reached down into my heart, your stories and experiences, Maybe as a populace we are to eager to see media back home of the horrors of war while we go about our safe lives. To those war reporters still alive I hope you find some peace in your soul, for those who sadly met their death doing your job, you are now in peace. My heart goes out to you.❤❤❤❤❤❤

i served in Somalia and SW Asia all over...the impressions reporters have are very similar to what at least some of us soldiers have. WTF am I doing here, when I could be home with my wife and kids!

This is an excellent documentary, thank you.

If the reporters couldn’t handle what they were seeing, imagine what the people of these Countries feel? God bless them all🙏

Marella lives. Thanks to the reporter for what he did that day. These obscenities must be witnessed. If people don't know the value of human life at least they should know the cost.

Without journalists, we'd have no idea what's going on anywhere. They are our eyes and ears to the world.

Brilliant documentary - as a budding photojournalist I am even now more convinced than ever in the need for continued coverage of all conflicts - brave men and woman indeed! As for James Miller's death by and IDF bullet, there is no doubt in my mind that he was targeted by an Israeli sniper

WOW. What an astonishingly powerful story. It is no surprise it received an EMMY.

I didn’t want to watch this. But allowed it to play through as I did chores and it brought me to tears many times.

We are the only species on this planet that realize how awesome and precious life is and yet we are the only ones that take it away on such a massive scale. Why do we keep doing this?

i love the female reporter that covered Vietnam. She was so cool at 17:56 with her cigarette !

2:09 Loaded on an ambulance and still holding that giant camera like it's a baby. Now that is dedication.

It hurts to watch this so much. Why are we so cruel?

You see these mild mannered gentlemen that tell stories in polite language of only really getting scared when the sea was on fire. Now that is an example of how to behave, how to carry yourself a true role model.

Depressing. It’s hard to watch it.

one of the hardest things ive ever watched

This documentary covers my life in wars. Born in 67'. I'm watching this while we are in day 8 of Putin/Russia invading Ukraine. 22'. 😪 we're never gonna learn.

What an amazing documentary! God have mercy on us!

Man has so much to answer for. God bless the children. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

i have seen this documentary more than 10 times, it's beautiful

24;13 is at the end of what she said... But I just finished hearing something so PROFOUND. .. Go and back up from there and listen to her say it again.

'If wars can be started by lies, Peace can be started by TRUTH.' Julian Assange

I think I’ve already contributed to like most of the views here…. Best videos ever

Stumbled here by accident. What an amazing documentary. Very well done.

Brilliant upload 👌 Thankyou 🤘

If you like this documentary I recommend you guys watch A Taxi Driver (2017). It's a South Korean movie about a reporter and a taxi driver who go through similar things. Great actors great movie.

Hearing ordinary world while seeing those Balkan wars clips is tough 😞

It’s unfortunate that we don’t have journalists from the old school. Today’s journalists report their opinions rather than facts. The one journalist gets it right when he says he tried to get the journalists to work together. Today, they’re all reporting based solely off the political bias of their station. I have a ton of respect for any journalists who go out with members of the military into battle zones. War is ugly. I wish humans were able to get along no matter how different our ideas/creed/skin color/cultures/etc… we don’t need to agree on everything, yet at least we can respect one another enough that we’re able to sympathize and empathize with one another. When we can do that how much closer will we be to peace & unity? Only problem is we can’t even do that in our own country. Americans are as divided as countries at war… how sad and pathetic is that?

I've been in the media for 37 years. I'd say cameraman Jon Steele is permanently traumatized.

The people doing those horrible things to innocent people

after watching this..and you still believe in god there is something seriously wrong with you. This documentaries send a chill down my spine

Jeremy Irons should narrate everything.

What great people,who will go out there for us to get news of what is going anywhere in the world,l salute all of them, those who passed on .... R I P ....

Excellent doco. Respect to all involved

What a disgusting world we live in. Innocents loose their lives at the hands of the greed and powerful.

Very poignant - You can't pretend that your stories made a difference, they were like ice cubes, they melted. Very beautiful and so true especially during a politically driven war.

Very interesting documentary, thank you.

Excellent doc. People are savage

I watched this years ago! It broke my heart then as it does now😭where are the other parts to this documentary? I know there are 4 parts total😭

I'm sorry RU-vid....this is a fantastic matter and documentation and you mess it up with TONS of adverts every couple of minutes...f*ck it!

24:05 That is one incredible Women.

I was going to watch but I saw them Ads won't even bother to skip the ads

great documentary. thank you for posting

I thought Vincent Brooks was Obama for a second when he first started talking it sounded exactly like him

ABSOLUTELY. INSANE.

Respect! for true unbiased war correspondents

The poor children. It breaks my heart

Excellent video Thank you

In a war the most painful is injured and dead children.

This is sooooo hard to watch it’s makes me Ashame to say I’m a human being , to my fellow man let’s make this the generation of change an peace ✌🏾 or at least try...... who’s with me?

Thank you, sincerely to all who commented about the images in this video. I'm very appreciative for the warning 💓

What a very well made documentary,and very sad.

Don't know whats more tragic .... all the footage or the amount of adverts

thank you. Amazing documentary.

woa, at 0:47 my house was shaken by thunder, that tripped me out

Had the privilege of meeting john Fisk in post 69-B in brachit south Lebanon many years ago.he was a fantastic correspondent.

All the falling ALL the allied forces lost REST IN PEACE & thank you ! No more wars ! God bless us all and are future, innocent children. .... ty.

Lest we forget: "The U.S supported dictator"

In case any of you didn't what the jerks name is at 1:27:41... Greg geraldo.. lololol

War.... war never changes

I completely totally 100% agree with the statements made in this Doc that a free and unfettered media is essential to the health and survival of any democracy. I agree too with them that if a democracies armed forces target and attack these journalists out there doing their job of reporting, perhaps most importantly when they might bring to light information, stories, facts, or situations that the democratic country imvolved might not like, might be very uncomfortable about the general public learning, and especially would greatly oppose whatever it might be being exposed...these are the exact things that must be reported that the citizens of a democracy absolutely MUST know in order to fufill their solemn duties as a citizen of a democracy..let those who represent them know how they want things done, what actions should be taken, agree or disagree with something, if changes minor or great need consideration, ect... It does no good if the only things ever heard were simply tooting your own horn, if the real or potential problems are hidden there is zero hopeof future improvement. If our nationacts dishonorably it needs to be promptly admitted and addressed and ensure it doesnt repeat whatever course that might take. Thats what a great nation does knowing that all nations will make mistakes some huge its how you handle them in the end when they are revealed that makes all the difference. And yes if the nations armed forces or even government is indeed targeting journalists it finds a problem then that ABSOLUTLY is an OVERT attack on democracy itself--no matter the country of origin the journalists might be from. But you professional journalists out there who said here a free media is cruicial to a democracy and attack against the media an attack against democracy... I dont know if it was an honest slip of your memory or what but in the hope that is all it was Ill be happy to help with the little biys thatdidnt seem to be imcluded here today... You forgot the part about that exact same media thats so crucial to demcracies survial being An Unbiased Professional Media. I think those areprehaps THE MOSTIMPORTANT PARTS. After all what good would it be to have a protected and free media if all that media did was lie, create completely fictional stories based--as all the best lies are--on bits of truth at their cores?? It would then almost seem for it to make sense for a government or whoever the stories are created to harm, for them to strike out in defense. I did say almost, ot is most definatly wrong bit it doescome closerto being understandable if still reprehensible. By yourown definitions here if journalists are biased unethical and unprofessional then THEIR REPORTING becomes an attack on democracy no matter what the story mmight be, who it harms or who it helps. A free honest unbiased professional and protected media is cruicial for the survival of ANY DEMOCRACY. So that means when the American mainstream media was proven to be directly involved with and culpable in createing masses ofstories over a long period of time fitst to prevent someones election as president and then when they were elected conspired to, and worked hard reporting many different stories created to result in the same politicians impeachment and imprisonment, in any other country this would be termed a failed bloodless coup. The media created the false fictional stories and even the FBI haveing been involved. This same mainstream media fully admitted their bias not long ago as well as admitting to reporting false stories they knew full well were false--justifying it be saying retractions were prinyed, or course burried in fine print in the areas and sections they lnow full well are hardly ever seen much less read by anyone. Howcan anyone anywhere possibly ever trust American mainstream media from this point forward. The only one who do currently are those who agree with the bias agtee with whats said and why. Mostly those of the millinneal generations who actually choose to be ignorant and are also truely ignorant and stupid, at least to the point theyhave no clue that agree with thebias ornot that the actions and choices these american mainstream journalists are choosing to take are in fact dooming The United States of America as no other enemy possibly could and if not reversed back to only a decade pr two earlier when the height of professional journalism was their unbiased reporting. What joirnalists cant seem to understand is THAT was why jpurnalists were so widely respected the world over and THAT respect was what protected themmorethan anything else possibly could. Because everybody everywhere, no matter whose side they were on what country or faction or political view they knew that the reporter over there getting the story was unbiased and thereforefair and that the truth of their stories would get outtheir for the world to see just as much as the big power they were fighting against. Today though it just depends on what slant or bias they would put on it today and even though the big power might be completely ing the wrong the bias ensures their voice will never beheard or worse the people reporting might just spout the big powers propoganda or create their own lies to make the stories more believeable popular or easier to sell. Before people could make up their own minds after hearing the facts or words from both sides where now the journalists attempt to make up their minds for their viewers and the stories are simply to sell the journalists views and beliefs so eitherone side or the others getting badly screwed.of course its the American people and America who loose the most by far. This small handfull of american mainstream media that have decided they know better than the entire world, that their thoughts and opinions far superior so they go about ensureing we dont have any real option but believe as they do.they rigg the game, How itterly reprehensible! I would be humiliated to admit to anyone if I was a journalist today and I truely mean that. What then by your own words do we do when ot turns out the biggest enemy of our Democracy turns out to be this media weve been protecting? What then? Obviously their industry cannot or isnt willing to police or correct itself. . The only option I can see is that we the people can refuse to ever trust or recieve our news from american mainstream media sources.only get our news from offshore trusted news sources proven to beor at least still striveing to be unbiased reporters. There are some french sources and as much as this pains me even Al Jeezera is farmore trustworthy..which speaks volumes. Thank God for the net!! At least they cant completely muzzle truth yet anyway. But i hope anyjournalist that might read this will atleasthavethehonestlyto admit this and then go out and try to change your terrible industry here in America if nothing else letting peers know how America views you if ypure still greatly lying to yourselves and thinking your respected trusted or even listened to by the overwhelming majority of us. Only the imbecile moron Millinneal Generations are stupid enough to still be listening but as they dont have the capacity to respect even themselves then even those millinneals have no respect for you at all. What a huge fall from the position journalism and journalists used to occupy only a very short time ago and youve managed to fall so hard so fast ots already very clear the media will never earn that kind of reguard and respect ever again. All of American Mainstream Media being less than National Enquirer status so quickly, at least the Enquirer never made any bones about what they weredidnt try to pass themselves as something they were not as journalists today tried to do. What a very very sad day. All the sacrifice represented here in this Doc rendered into meaningless joke.

When he said the world watched as the genocide in Rwanda went on with no help from other countries, yet if the British went straight in the world would get straight on to them, putting them down, we know the headlines i mean, but they sent in the SAS, without the world knowing, no bragging nothing just trying to help,