If you do the math, and you think of the time of this movie, 1990-1994 during the height of apartheid, which was FINALLY making the news, and the age of these courageous photographers recording history, and what I was doing at that age I'm embarrassed by myself. That part of the world was foreign to me. I was the same age as these men, but not a care in the world.The movie can be joyous, at times. But there's really nothing joyous about that era. And I think this movie speaks the truth. There were things that I didn't know about; the various parties that were against each other, trying to get to a free and fair election. The level of violence. The ineffectiveness of any kind of law-enforcement. Local newspapers afraid or an able to post photos of the truth, being afraid of seeming to choose a side. And these photojournalists, played amazingly by the actors who portrayed them, were real people. This is not fiction.While I was in a new job, new relationship, and buying a house. These people were literally dying for pennies. My hats off. And if I could get this movie more than 10 start, I would. It should be a history lesson.

Well i just wanted to add that the movie is rated much below what it deserves. And this is the first time i'm writing a review because i never cared to read what other have written. But this is ONE MOVIE, that has compelled me to write one. People who are into Photography will definitely appreciate the Documentary/movie and the situation a war journalist is in. How there life are effected just because there work involve photographing the truth. It shows that its a misconception that a photographer has the easiest job. To just buy a camera and click the shutter button. Who have rated it below avg or a mere 3 start must be used to watching James Bond or terminator kind of stuff. So to conclude "Don't go by the rating, watch it yourself and decide". Cheers!!!

Just a Grandmother in the suburbs, but so glad I found this excellent movie offered free by my cable company. From what some of the other reviewers have said, it would be well worth my time to get the DVD (and a new TV)for some details I missed and the extras on the DVD. I'll be looking up the book too.And the music is awesome.I do agree the sex/romance content detracted somewhat from the credibility of the film: 2 of the women did not appear to have any other life or function than fawning over their men. But isn't that always the way?

The 'club' - a real life group of four white photographers - operated in South Africa during the difficult last years of the apartheid era in 1990-1994 when the white regime encouraged the Inkatha Freedom Party to attack the supporters of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress and appalling atrocities of black-on-black violence were committed. Two of the photographers won Pulitzer Prizes for their shots but all suffered psychologically and physically.The film is an adaptation of a book by the two surviving members of the 'club' written and directed by South African documentary film-maker Steven Silver and it was shot on location in Thokoza township south of Johannesburg. So there can be little doubt about the authenticity of the principal events and the verisimilitude of the settings. Somehow, however, the script and acting have a amateurish feel, so that the work is not quite as gripping as it should be.The movie reminds me of the 1973 work "Under Fire". Although the political situations are different - the 1973 film is about the civil war in Nicaragua - both films centre on the work of photographers in recording conflict and presenting it to the wider world and both explore how the motives and role of such participants can be complex and controversial. Even observers of dramatic political events cannot be neutral or passive.