Desc: Without Fear or Favor: Dorothy Thompson's Warnings to the West: Directed by Teo Zagar. Without Fear or Favor is the first documentary film to tell the story of the dramatic and powerful contemporary relevance of Dorothy Thompson, the 'First Lady of American journalism' in the 1930s. The film reveals Thompson as America's preeminent voice against fascism and her expulsion from Nazi Germany in 1934. Thompson was physically removed from the February 1939 Nazi Bund rally in New York City's Madison Square Garden after loudly mocking speakers. That same year in June, Thompson was featured on the cover of Time Magazine, wherein she was considered as influential as then-First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Thompson was the first American woman to lead a foreign press bureau, and inspired the character played by Katharine Hepburn in the film "Woman of the Year" (1942). As early as the late-1930s Thompson was heralded as a potential nominee for U.S. president or vice-president. She had a turbulent marriage to bestselling novelist Sinclair Lewis, the first American recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature. Thompson's reporting from pre-WWII Germany inspired Lewis to write his best-selling It Can't Happen Here (1935), a satirical depiction of America's descent into authoritarian rule. Lewis's novel hit the best-seller lists once again during the 2016 presidential election, bringing renewed attention to Thompson's own legacy as an ardent anti-fascist. Lewis's novel was the story of a patriotic journalist risking it all to resist authoritarianism. Thompson's reporting was cited by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill as having played a vital role in building public confidence and support for the war effort. Albert Einstein said that Thompson was the "awakener of the American conscience."