Synopsis
For over half a century, 60 Minutes' fearsome newsman Mike Wallace went head-to-head with the world's most influential figures. Relying exclusively on archival footage, the film interrogates the interrogator, tracking Wallace's storied career and troubled personal life while unpacking how broadcast journalism evolved to today’s precarious tipping point.
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Cast
- Mike WallaceSelf (archive footage)
- Johnny CarsonSelf (archive footage)
- Mickey CohenSelf (archive footage)
- Donald TrumpSelf (archive footage)
- Martin Luther King Jr.Self (archive footage)
- John McCainSelf (archive footage)
- Richard NixonSelf (archive footage)
- Vladimir PutinSelf (archive footage)
- Eleanor RooseveltSelf (archive footage)
- Oprah WinfreySelf (archive footage)
Recommendations
- 92
TheWrap
A masterful, cinematic biography that unpacks a man’s life through his work, showing us an uncompromising and difficult man who apparently wouldn’t have had it any other way. - 80
Los Angeles Times
What results is a portrait of Wallace in effect in dialogue with himself, a presentation that puts viewers on edge a bit the way the man himself interacted with the world. - 75
IndieWire
This is an important and compulsively watchable portrait made by someone who understands the brute power of broadcast media and the people who make it for all the world to see, but it can only afford Mike Wallace with a little moment of truth, and the satisfaction of playing his part in the greater continuum of things. - 75
Movie Nation
Lester’s film underscores how few TV talkers today have the stature, much less the spine, to ask questions that people don’t want asked, much less be required to answer. - 75
Slant Magazine
Much like its subject, Avi Belkin’s documentary knows how to start an argument. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Wallace was clearly a very ambitious, capable and confident man, but the film, as absorbing as it is, is two-dimensional. - 70
Variety
He left behind enough tape from both ends of the microphone that Belkin is able to create his entire documentary with old footage, juiced by retro imagery of broadcast air waves and vintage dials and knobs. - 70
Wall Street Journal
Avi Belkin’s documentary offers fascinating insights into what made its subject tick.
