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Never Look Away review – Lucy Lawless’s portrait of a fearless news camerawoman

Fascinating documentary about Margaret Moth, whose footage from war zones almost killed her in 1992, lives up to her motto ‘don’t be boring’

When TV news camerawoman Margaret Moth was shot through the face by a Serbian sniper in Sarajevo in 1992, her CNN colleagues were told that it was touch and go. With her jet-black hair, thick black eyeliner and army combat boots (which she slept in on the job) Moth looked more like a punk singer than a camera operator. Eventually CNN hired her and Moth’s “ballsy” attitude won fans in the military; during the 1990 Gulf war she smoked cigars with General Norman Schwarzkopf.

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