COVER-UP Trailer: Laura Poitras & Mark Obenhaus Investigate America Through the Eyes of Seymour Hersh

After examining the life of photographer Nan Goldin and her fight against the Sackler Family in her documentary All The Beauty and the Bloodshed, Oscar-winning documentarian Laura Poitras investigates the political turmoil of the 20th Century through the reporting of Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh in her newest documentary, Cover-Up. Co-directed with Emmy-winning filmmaker Mark Obenhaus (Buying the Bomb), the film explores Hersh’s long career covering U.S. Army torture scandals during the Vietnam War and the War in Iraq. Following a lengthy fall festival tour that included stops in Venice, TIFF, NYFF, and DOC NYC, Netflix will release the film in select theaters on December 5, before it becomes available to stream on the platform starting December 26.

As the official synopsis reads:

Cover-Up is a political thriller that traces the explosive career of Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. Urgent and deeply reported, Cover-Up 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.

Check out the trailer and poster below.

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