Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists (HBO)

The story of two swashbuckling newspaper columnists who spoke for ordinary people and brought passion, wit and literary merit to their brilliant reporting about their city and nation.
The film, studded with important cultural figures (Robert De Niro, Spike Lee, Shirley MacLaine, Gloria Steinem) and major writers (Tom Wolfe, Nick Pileggi, Gail Collins, Garry Trudeau),
captures the charm of the old New York, while probing explosive issues of race, class and the practice of journalism that resonate powerfully in our own time.

Breslin and Hamill–past and present– offer a master class in good writing and reporting and propel us through classic New York stories like the Bernhard Goetz, “Son of Sam,” “Central Park Five”
and Crown Heights cases as well as many of the major events of the last half century, including the Kennedy assassinations, the civil rights movement, Vietnam. Watergate and 9/11.