Kate Winslet is a war photographer at the front in this biopic about World War II

2024 was a year that highlighted the importance of photojournalism both on screen and in the news. Earlier this year, Alex Garlands Civil War has presented its cautionary tale of an imagined new American Civil War literally through the lens of war photographers Lee Smith (Kirsten Dunst) and Jessie Cullen (Cailee Spaeny). Just last weekend, a turning point in the United States presidential election campaign was captured in an extraordinary image of a bloodied Donald Trump. Now, in cinematographer Ellen Kuras’ feature directorial debut leeOscar winner Kate Winslet will tell the story of a decade in the life of legendary American war photographer and World War II correspondent Lee Miller. Watch the trailer for the Sky Original film below:

Produced by Winslet and written by Liz Hannah, Marion Hume and John Collee, lee is something like a heart project for the Titanic Actor who personally paid the crew’s salaries for two weeks during production. And that commitment to telling Miller’s story is evident on screen, too. This striking first trailer shows Winslet’s Miller in action on the front lines in Nazi Germany, where she faces rampant sexism on the home front and wrestles with her own secrets and desires while trying to capture the horrors of war in her work. We also get a glimpse of the remarkable ensemble cast that Kuras has assembled for leeincluding Andy Samberg as Life Magazine photographer David E. Scherman, Alexander Skarsgård as Miller’s lover Roland Penrose, Marion Cotillard as French Vogue fashion director Solange D’Ayen, and Andrea Riseborough as British Vogue editor Audrey Withers. Josh O’Connor also appears as a young journalist named Tony.

Here’s the official logline: “What she captured on film at Dachau and across Europe was shocking and horrifying. Her photographs of the war, its casualties, and its aftermath remain among the most significant and historically significant of World War II. She changed war photography forever, but Lee Miller paid a tremendous personal price for what she experienced and the stories she chose to tell.”

lee will be released in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on September 13, 2024.