Feature writing stresses cinematic techniques, and some of the most successful works have become great movies:
- Into the Wild, (book) Into the Wild (movie) is Jon Krakauer's story of a young man's tragic effort to live in the Alaskan Wilderness.
- All the President's Men (book) All the President's Men (movie) deals with uncovering the Watergate scandal that forced the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
- The Insider
(movie) is about the repercussions of a Sixty Minutes investigation
into Big Tobacco, when the main source, a research chemist, faces
threats and intimidation.
- In Cold Blood (book) In Cold Blood (movie), by Truman Capote, and the movie Capote about his life.
- Citizen Kane (movie) is a complex examination of a fictional newspapers tycoon's life, based on William Randolph Hearst.