For more than forty years, British journalist Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent conflicts in the world, from Northern Ireland to the Middle East, always with his feet on the ground and a notebook in hand, travelling into landscapes devastated by war, ferreting out the facts and sending reports to the media he works for with the ambition of catching the interest of an audience of millions.
Direction
Chang lets Fisk's reporting speak — no pandering, no easy answers.
Production
Archival war footage that hits harder than any thriller.
Director
Yung Chang
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fisk's reporting on the Sabra and Shatila massacres made him a target of death threats for decades; he refused to leave Beirut.
The title references Godard's 'this is not a pipe' — Fisk spent his career insisting images and words fail to capture war's reality, yet kept trying anyway.
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