Best known for Democracy Now! the progressive news show she has hosted for 30 years, Amy Goodman earned her stripes in the field, uncovering nefarious activities in East Timor in 1991. She was arrested for her reporting of the Dakota pipeline protests and detained and questioned by Canadian border agents when she came up to speak in Vancouver in 2009.
Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin (Trouble the Water, The Janes) take us behind the scenes with the warm, wisecracking granddaughter of an Orthodox rabbi — raised in a tradition of asking hard questions – as she navigates a news landscape reshaped by technology, corporate consolidation, and political assaults on truth itself. Urgent, provocative and unexpectedly funny, Steal This Story, Please! is both a call to action and a celebration of resistance, posing the question: what happens to democracy when the press surrenders to power?
Carl Deal & Tia Lessin
Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzales, Jeremy Scahill, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Nermeen Shaikh
USA
2025
English
Audience Award, Mill Valley; Audience Award, SIFF DocFest; Audience Award, Woodstock
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Credits
Executive Producer
Dominique Bravo, Julie Cohen, Rosario Dawson, Tom Morello, Tony Tabatznik
Producer
Karen Ranucci, Tia Lessin, Carl Deal, Diana Cohn, Caren Spruch
Cinematography
Cliff Charles, Nausheen Dadabhoy, Keith Walker
Editor
Mona Davis
Original Music
Zoe Keating
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