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Cover-Up

Name: Cover-Up
Director: Laura Poitras
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2025-12-19
Duration: 117 min
Cast: Seymour Hersh, Jeff Gerth, David Obst, Bob Woodward, Max Friedman

2025 · 1h 57m · Documentary, History

If you care about accountability journalism and hard-hitting investigative storytelling, watch this tonight—Seymour Hersh's decades-long fight to expose government lies is exactly the kind of documentary that matters. This is essential viewing for anyone who wants to understand how power operates and why we need fearless reporters willing to challenge it.

Plot

He's devoted his career to uncovering stories the powerful want buried. From My Lai to Abu Ghraib, dig into the life's work of journalist Seymour Hersh.

Director: Laura Poitras

Cast: Seymour Hersh, Jeff Gerth, David Obst, Bob Woodward, Max Friedman

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