This documentary profiles Amy Goodman, the long-running host of listener-funded US news programme Democracy Now!, portraying her as a persistent progressive journalist who challenges powerful figures and pursues stories neglected by larger media outlets. The review argues that her work matters amid perceived corporate influence over American news organisations, while noting that the film does not explain the programme’s funding needs in detail.

It recounts Goodman’s reporting on Indonesia’s 1991 massacre in East Timor, where she and journalist Allan Nairn were beaten, and her investigation into Chevron’s involvement in suppressing Ogoni protests in Nigeria. The film also revisits a tense 30-minute interview with Bill Clinton during the 2000 election and Goodman’s intensified scrutiny of US policy after 9/11 and the “war on terror”.