Cover-up

Acclaimed documentary directors Mark Obenhaus and Laura Poitras team up to deliver an engrossing portrait of investigative journalist Seymour M. Hersh.

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Credits

  • Directors

    Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus

  • With

    Seymour M. Hersh

  • USA 2025. 117min

  • Courtesy of

    mk2 Films

  • Languages

    English, Vietnamese, Arabic

    With English subtitles

Introduction

Hersh is the reporter responsible for some of the biggest journalistic exposés of the late-20th-century, from the massacre of North Vietnamese civilians in My Lai to the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Obenhaus and Poitras’ (All the Beauty and the Bloodshed) film is a rare opportunity to encounter this fearless, uncompromising and complex individual.

Laure Bonville

Content warning

Contains scenes of graphic violence or injury, harm towards children, and torture.

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