War Photographer

War Photographer (2001) is a Swiss documentary by Christian Frei, and you can watch it online on iFILM. The subject is James Nachtwey — a man who spent decades walking into the worst violence on earth: Rwanda, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Indonesia.

Frei fitted a tiny camera inside Nachtwey's own camera body, so the film shows you the world through his actual viewfinder. The result sits somewhere between a portrait of a man and a question about what it costs to make bearing witness a profession. The film landed a Best Documentary Feature nomination at the Academy Awards. Stream War Photographer (2001) on iFILM.