In the photo, Lee Miller sits nude in a bathtub. Positioned at the corner of the tub, as if looking over Miller’s shoulder, is a picture of the green-tiled bathroom’s previous owner ...

One of the animating questions in a film about a war correspondent is “Why?” Why do they do what they do? Why do they keep pushing, searching, exposing themselves to the suffering of war?

“If I Googled her in 2015 when I bought the table, it said ‘Lee Miller, former lover and muse of Man Ray. Ex-Vogue cover girl. Ex-model.’” “I just thought, no, no, hang on,” Winslet says.

Instead, they stumbled onto a pile of thin pages containing a manuscript titled “The Siege of St. Malo.” Lee Miller (second from right) with other female war correspondents in 1943 Public ...

Miller’s shot of artillery spotters in St Malo sits beside Winslet’s atmospheric image of the same scene in Lee; an original photo of starched white linens drying in the sun is recreated with ...