Best Journalism Movies & TV Shows

Full Metal Jacket

9 / 10

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Run time: 117m Tagline: In Vietnam, the wind doesn't blow. It sucks. Release: 1987-06-26

Stars: Adam Baldwin Arliss Howard Dorian Harewood Ed O'Ross John Terry Kevyn Major Howard Kieron Jecchinis Matthew Modine R. Lee Ermey Vincent D'Onofrio

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But will Light succeed in his noble goal, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?

Stars: Aya Hirano Kappei Yamaguchi Kazuya Nakai Keiji Fujiwara Kimiko Saito Mamoru Miyano Naoya Uchida Noriko Hidaka Ryou Naitou Shido Nakamura

The Devil Wears Prada

A young woman from the Midwest gets more than she bargained for when she moves to New York to become a writer and ends up as the assistant to the tyrannical, larger-than-life editor-in-chief of a major fashion magazine.

Run time: 109m Tagline: Meet Andy Sachs. A million girls would kill to have her job. She's not one of them. Release: 2006-06-29

Stars: Adrian Grenier Anne Hathaway Daniel Sunjata David Marshall Grant Emily Blunt Meryl Streep Rich Sommer Simon Baker Stanley Tucci Tracie Thoms