Words of War

“In a world silenced by fear, her truth was unstoppable.”

Anna Politkovskaya (Maxine Peake) is a journalist determined to document the truth about the war in Chechnya, no matter the risk to herself. At Novaya Gazeta, her editor Dmitry Muratov (Ciarán Hinds) publishes her investigations while the threats accumulate. James Strong traces her final years as the walls close in, ending on a dark apartment, a phone left unanswered, the cost of bearing witness.