Cover-Up

2025 · 1h57 · Film

Directed by Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus

Starring Seymour Hersh, Jeff Gerth, David Obst, Bob Woodward, Max Friedman, Amy Davidson Sorkin, Antonio Taguba, Camille Lo Sapio, Isador Hersh, Dorothy Hersh

Ideal when you feel… Sad / low Exhausted Curious

This documentary follows a veteran investigative journalist’s decades-long effort to uncover stories that powerful institutions wanted buried. Through interviews, personal files, archival material, and accounts from colleagues, it explores reporting on wartime atrocities, government secrecy, political scandals, and other controversies.

Original language

English

Country

United States

Music

Maya Shenfeld

Cinematography

Mia Cioffi Henry

Cast

Bob Woodward, Max Friedman, Amy Davidson Sorkin, Antonio Taguba, Camille Lo Sapio, Isador Hersh, Dorothy Hersh, Alan Hersh, Elizabeth Klein Hersh

Critics score

81/100

Updated July 22, 2026

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