premise: Balibo (film) involves zero journalist.
hypothesis: Balibo . Balibo achieved notoriety as the site of the killing of five Australian-based journalists now known as the Balibo Five , by Indonesian forces on October 16 , 1975 during an incursion by Indonesia into what was then Portuguese Timor . Balibo is a 2009 Australian war film that follows the story of the Balibo Five , a group of journalists who were captured and killed while reporting on activities just prior to the Indonesian invasion of East Timor of 1975 . The film follows dishevelled journalist Roger East , played by Anthony LaPaglia , who travels to East Timor in 1975 to investigate the deaths of the Balibo Five during the buildup to the Indonesian invasion of East Timor . Oscar Isaac plays the young José Ramos-Horta , who would later receive the Nobel Peace Prize and become the second President of East Timor , who joins East in the movie .