Cover-Up (2025)

Directed by

Mark Obenhaus, Laura Poitras

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 57m

Rated

R

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 45 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows the career of journalist Seymour Hersh. It covers his reporting on the My Lai massacre and the Abu Ghraib scandal.

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What happens

Cover-Up is a 2025 American documentary film produced and directed by Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus. It explores the investigative journalism career of Seymour Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who covered the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War and the Abu Ghraib torture scandal during the Iraq War, both committed by the U.S. Army. The film premiered out of competition at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on August 29, 2025. It had a limited theatrical release in the U.S. on December 19 and began streaming globally on Netflix on December 26. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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