“I just want to do my part. Why should the men decide what that is?”

So asks Kate Winslet in Lee, where she plays Lee Miller, a war correspondent and photographer who demands the right to shoot the action happening on the front lines during World War II, just like any male photographer would be allowed to do.

Lee Miller, working for Vogue magazine, gets her wish. Lee did make it to the battlefield where she captured wartime images for British Vogue, including the destruction caused by the Blitz and the aftermath of D-Day. But with that victory came anguish.

According to the film’s logline, “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. She changed war photography forever, but Lee Miller paid an enormous personal price for what she witnessed and the stories she fought to tell.”

Among her other exploits that she recounts through flashbacks, Miller infamously posed in Hitler’s private bathtub while abroad and used her Rolleiflex camera to “give a voice to the voiceless.”

“Even when I wanted to look away, I knew I couldn’t,” Miller tells a young journalist played by Josh O’Connor, who interviews Miller in 1977.

Lee is the directorial feature debut from award-winning cinematographer Ellen Kuras from a script by by Liz Hannah, Marion Hume, and John Collee. Winslet produced the Sky Original film, personally paying the crew’s salaries for two weeks during its shoot. Kuras has said that Winslet’s research was crucial to telling Miller’s story.

Andrea Riseborough, Andy Samberg, Alexander Skarsgård, and Marion Cotillard also star.

Lee will be distributed by Vertical Entertainment and Roadside Attractions and will make its theatrical bow on September 27th, 2024.