Kate Winslet stars as American photographer Lee Miller.
Determined to document the truth of the Nazi regime, and in spite of the odds stacked against female correspondents, Lee Miller captured some of the most important images of World War II.
Not exactly a biopic, Ellen Kuras's film explores the most significant decade of Miller’s life. As a middle-aged woman, Lee refused to be remembered as a model or muse. Defying the rules and expectations of the time, she travelled to Europe to report from the frontline. There, in part as a reaction to her own well-hidden trauma, she used her Rolleiflex camera to give a voice to the voiceless.
What she captured on film in Dachau and throughout Europe was shocking and horrific. Her photographs of the war, its victims and its consequences remain among the most significant and historically important of the second world war.
Although Lee Miller changed war photography forever, she also paid an enormous personal price for what she witnessed and the stories she fought to tell.