ABC News Studios’ feature-length documentary Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything will premiere on Hulu on June 23, and later this year on Disney+.
The project, from Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Documentaries, will have its world premiere at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival. It is directed by Jackie Jesko.
The documentary will be “an intimate and raw look at her astonishing career, personal life, and the challenges she faced trying to balance it all as a woman in a male-dominated industry. Walters, in her own words, also reflects on the high price of fame and the legacy she hoped to inspire,” according to ABC News Studios.
Walters, who died in 2022, was the first female nightly news anchor when she was paired with Harry Reasoner in 1976, after being lured away from NBC, where she was a co-host of Today.
Despite the trailblazing accomplishment, Walters’ co-anchor role was ill-fated, and the evening news was overhauled in 1978 into World News Tonight. But Walters embarked on a new chapter of her career, co-anchoring the network’s newsmagazine 20/20, serving as one of ABC News’ star correspondents in landing the highest profile interviews, and hosting highly rated specials with celebrities and other public figures. Later in her career, Walters was creator and co-host of The View.
The film features unaired footage from ABC’s extensive archives, along with interviews with Cindy Adams, Joy Behar, Connie Chung, Martin Clancy, Andy Cohen, Katie Couric, Peter Gethers, Lori Klein, Cynthia McFadden, Bette Midler, Victor Neufeld, David Sloan, Katie Nelson Thomson, Chris Vlasto and Oprah Winfrey.
The project is produced by Imagine Documentaries for ABC News Studios in association with Latchkey Films. For Imagine Documentaries, the film is produced by Marcella Steingart, Sara Bernstein, Justin Wilkes and Meredith Kaulfers. Grazer, Howard, Justin Wilkes and Betsy West serve as executive producers. Muriel Pearson is executive producer, and David Sloan is senior executive producer for ABC News Studios.
