Ukrainian journalist Mstyslav Chernov and his Associated Press colleagues are the last international press left in Mariupol when Russia's siege begins, and they spend twenty days filming what the invasion does to a city cut off from food, power, and water. The camera follows doctors trying to save a child hit by shrapnel, families burying relatives in mass graves dug in a park, and the aftermath of the strike on a maternity hospital that became one of the war's defining images. Chernov narrates in first person, explaining how the team smuggled footage out past checkpoints so the world would see it before Russian officials could call it staged. There is no reenactment and no distance here, just raw footage shot by people who kept working while the city around them stopped functioning. The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and its case for why journalism matters is made simply by showing what disappears when journalists cannot get in.