Seymour Hersh, the legendary Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist whose reporting has exposed some of the darkest episodes of U.S. military and intelligence history – from My Lai, to Abu Ghraib, to clandestine surveillance programs is the subject of the new documentary Cover-Up by Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus.
COVER-UP (2025)
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TOP ROW, L TO R: Cover-Up, photo courtesy of The New York Times/Redux. A LIFE ILLUMINATED, photo courtesy of Sandbox Films.
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