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📅 2025 ⏱ 1h 57min R Released FHD / 4K

Cover-Up

Documentary

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.

🎬 DirectorLaura Poitras

📅 Release2025-12-19

🌍 CountryUnited States of America

🗣 LanguageArabic, English, German, Vietnamese

🏢 StudioPraxis Films, Plan B Entertainment, Submarine Deluxe

🗳 Votes30

🔥 Popularity5

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🎭 Cast

Seymour Hersh

Self - Investigative Journalist

Jeff Gerth

Self - The New York Times

David Obst

Self - Dispatch News

Bob Woodward

Self - The Washington Post

Max Friedman

Self - Former Research Assistant

Amy Davidson Sorkin

Self - The New Yorker

Antonio Taguba

Self - U.S. Army Major General

Camille Lo Sapio

Self - Anonymous Source

Isador Hersh

Self - Father of Seymour Hersh (archive footage)

Dorothy Hersh

Self - Mother of Seymour Hersh (archive footage)

Alan Hersh

Self - Brother of Seymour Hersh (archive footage)

Elizabeth Klein Hersh

Self - Wife of Seymour Hersh (archive footage)

Salvador Allende

Self - Chilean President (archive footage)

James Jesus Angleton

Self - CIA Chief of Counterintelligence (archive footage)

Michael Bernhardt

Self - U.S. Army Sergeant (archive footage)

🎥 Crew

DirectorLaura Poitras

DirectorMark Obenhaus

ProducerYoni Golijov

ProducerMark Obenhaus

ProducerLaura Poitras

Executive ProducerNick Shumaker

ProducerOlivia Streisand

EditorAmy Foote

EditorLaura Poitras

Director of PhotographyMia Cioffi Henry

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🏷 Keywords

cover-upinvestigative journalist

💬 Reviews

Brent Marchant⭐ 7/10

In an age where it seems that troubling developments are ubiquitously lurking beneath the surface of public awareness, the need for intrepid investigative journalists to bring these stories to light is probably greater than ever. Unfortunately, such reporters have increasingly become a vanishing breed, especially in the mainstream media. Luckily, though, there are still some committed, courageous …