Overview

• The film, directed by Jackie Jesko and produced by Imagine Documentaries, debuts at the Tribeca Festival on June 12 before streaming on Hulu later this month.
• Interviews with longtime friend and ABC News executive producer David Sloan and former NBC correspondent Cynthia McFadden trace Walters’s journey from a financially unstable childhood in Boston to a record-breaking $1 million salary at ABC News.
• Archival footage and eyewitness accounts chronicle the intense sexism and bullying Walters endured in 1976, including co-anchor Harry Reasoner’s hostility and the exclusionary behavior of male colleagues.
• Personal recollections expose Walters’s lifelong insecurities about her appearance and shed light on her private struggles, such as her daughter Jacqueline Dena Guber’s battle with addiction.
• The documentary underscores Walters’s legacy as a tough, trailblazing interviewer who reshaped broadcast journalism and went on to create The View in 1997.