Overview

• Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything premiered June 12 at the Tribeca Festival and debuts on Hulu and Disney+ on June 23.
• Director Jackie Jesko rejects a hagiographic approach, showcasing Walters’s strategic alliances with controversial figures such as Roy Cohn to secure major interviews.
• Archival footage and interviews in the film depict Walters’s professional rivalry and personal insecurities in relation to Diane Sawyer.
• Oprah Winfrey recalls how Walters edged her out to land Monica Lewinsky’s first televised interview after the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, highlighting Walters’s enduring influence.
• The documentary deliberately ends with Walters’s 2014 retirement from The View, omitting her reported health struggles and decline before her 2022 death.