Rosewater is a 2014 American political drama film written, directed and produced by Jon Stewart, based on the memoir Then They Came for Me by Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy.

[9] Due to the content of the film, Stewart has been accused by Iran's state TV of being funded by Zionists and working with the CIA.

In 2009, London-based Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained in Iran after he reports on violence against protesters of the country's presidential election, as well as giving a satirical interview with Jason Jones of The Daily Show.

[11] While his pregnant fiancée waits for him, Bahari spends 118 days at Evin Prison being brutally interrogated.

The site's consensus reads, "Timely, solidly acted, and unabashedly earnest, Rosewater serves as an impressive calling card for first-time director Jon Stewart.