Cover-Up is a political thriller that traces the explosive career of Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. Urgent and deeply reported, the film is both a portrait of a relentless journalist and an indictment of institutional violence - revealing a cycle of impunity in the U.S. military and intelligence agencies. Drawing on exclusive access to Hersh’s notes, and interweaving primary documents and archival footage, Cover-Up captures the power and process of investigative journalism.
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Seymour Hersh's relentless investigation serves as both a political thriller and a biopic in this electrifying documentary.
Going through Hersh’s meticulously preserved archive, we gain profound insight into his obsessive reporting process that helped expose some of America’s most controversial secrets: the My Lai massacre, Abu Ghraib torture, CIA interventions in Chile and Cuba, and beyond.
Hersh's unabated search for truth - often in defiance of his mental and physical wellbeing - makes him a forefather to today’s investigative journalists and whistleblowers such as Assange, Manning, and Snowden.
In a post-fact-checking era of information that inflicts paranoia and division, Hersh’s story is crucial and inspiring. And although the film begins with Hersh stating that he doesn't want to be psychoanalysed, by the end we have a substantial portrait of a highly wired and focused man who operated out of principle.
