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

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An electrifying documentary on the relentless investigative work of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh that serves both as a political thriller and a biopic.

Going through Hersh’s meticulous archive, we gain profound insight into his obsessive reporting process that helped expose some of America’s most hidden secrets: the My Lai massacre, Abu Ghraib torture, CIA interventions in Chile and Cuba, and beyond.
Hersh's unabated search for truth - often in defiance of his mental and physical wellbeing - makes him a forefather to today’s investigative journalists and whistleblowers such as Assange, Manning, and Snowden.

In a post-fact-checking era of information, Hersh’s story is crucial and inspiring. And although he clarifies he doesn't want to be psychoanalysed, by the end we have a substantial portrait of a highly wired and focused man who operated out of principle.