Barbara Walters' Family Estrangement, Controversial Love Life and More Explored in Tell-All Doc

Why Barbara Walters' Groundbreaking Career Left Her 'Regretful' About Family Life

Barbara Walters was a pioneer in broadcast journalism, shattering glass ceilings for the women who followed in her footsteps, including Oprah Winfrey, Meredith Vieira, Katie Couric, and Connie Chung. Still, her big career also had a dark side on the personal front. An upcoming Hulu documentary, Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything, premieres on June 23 and explores her strained relationship with daughter Jackie. Parenthood was a difficult journe…

‘Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything’ Review: Captures Her Brilliance as an Interviewer…and the Fusion of Politics and Entertainment She Helped Forge

On TV, she presented herself as a fighting mensch, someone who could disarm you with that sympathetic twinkle in her eye. Yet off camera she could be ruthless. She burned through romantic relationships as if they were seasonal shopping sprees, and one of her closest friends was the dreaded and infamous Roy Cohn. She was complicated. And so was the place she occupied in journalism.

Barbara Walters' Family Estrangement, Controversial Love Life and More Explored in Tell-All Doc

Barbara Walters‘ personal life is at the center of a tell-all documentary — from family estrangement to controversial exes. Hulu’s Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday, June 12, examined her pivotal role in the history of journalism and how Walters paved the way for other women in the industry. “This is my legacy. These [women] are my legacy,” Walters said in footage from her last day on The V…

‘Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything’ Review: Riveting Doc Is Clear-Eyed About a Trailblazer Who Also Almost Married Roy Cohn

Tribeca: "She did not have the strongest moral compass," said the man who co-wrote Walters' biography with her in a truthful moment among many in Jackie Jesko's nuanced documentary.

Barbara Walters Doc: Joy Behar, Laura Spencer & More Celebrate the TV Trailblazer

Barbara Walters was the queen of the interview, an icon who always asked the tough questions.  Now, the new documentary “Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything,” is giving the inside story of the woman who broke the stories.  Her ABC News friends and colleagues, including Joy Behar, Laura Spencer, Sunny Hostin, and Lara Spencer came out to remember the legend with “Extra” at the film’s Tribeca Festival premiere.  Joy shared, “She'd have a little pr…

Movie Review: “Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything” Shines an Intimate Light on the Legendary ABC News Trailblazer

The makers of Jim Henson Idea Man are bringing a new documentary to Hulu, focusing on the iconic trailblazing ABC News personality Barabra Walters. I was thoroughly impressed with the way that the Jim Henson documentary was crafted, so I was intrigued to see how those techniques would transfer over...