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* ''Film/BlackHawkDown'' had amongst its [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters many supporting characters]] a group of personnel in a helicopter high over the battlefield coordinating the ground forces and relaying messages back and forth with MissionControl back at the airfield. They are responsible for the movie's TitleDrop when a UH-60 Blackhawk is shot down in the city.

** ''Invincible'', the Vince Papale biopic, used both news coverage and play-by-play, both modeled on real coverage from the 70s, to help tell Vince's story.

** ''Invincible'', the Vince Papale biopic, used both news coverage and play-by-play, both modeled on real coverage from the 79s, to help tell Vince's story.

** ''Film/{{Invincible}}'', the Vince Papale biopic, used both news coverage and play-by-play, both modeled on real coverage from the 79s, to help tell Vince's story.

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* The opening sequence of the ''[[Series/WarOfTheWorlds War of the Worlds: The Second Invasion]]'' television series: "There's rioting breaking out from the city...fire is continuing to burn everywhere, troops are shooting people...there are conflicting reports about who or what started the chaos. Will some one tell me what's happening? This is madness! What is this world coming to?"

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* Used extensively in the film ''Film/{{Apollo 13}}'' as the crew's plight was a major news item at the time, with former CBS News Anchor Walter Cronkite providing the opening narration, which was in the form of a new clip (confirmed by director Ron Howard in the DVD commentary) and archive footage of actual news breaks was mixed in with scripted ones throughout the film.

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* ''WesternAnimation/WallE''. [[RagnarokProofing Despite being in 700 years worth of disrepair]], the big screens across the city can still playback the president giving some of the backstory of why the Earth looks the way it does.

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* Some of the exposition in the 2000 ''{{Hamlet}}'', which is set in the corporate world, gets handed to a business news reporter.
* The film version of ''Film/HarryPotter and the Order of the Phoenix''.

* The modern film ''WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet.'' Shakespeare's play has a narrator at the beginning and the end; the film handles those lines by making its main story the subject of a news story...

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{WALL-E}}''. [[RagnarokProofing Despite being in 700 years worth of disrepair]], the big screens across the city can still playback the president giving some of the backstory of why the Earth looks the way it does.

* ''Film/CitizenKane'' opens with a fake newsreel recounting most of the major highlights of the just-deceased Charles Foster Kane's life.

* ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'' (2004). A radio announcer (along with a SpinningPaper montage) is used to show that the robot attack on New York is part of a worldwide phenomenon.

* ''Film/LAConfidential'' had the voice of Sid Hutchinson (Danny [=DeVito=]) reading from the gossip magazine he ran.

* The film version of ''HarryPotter and the Order of the Phoenix''.