Cover-Up

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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 and the cycles 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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Cover-Up shines a light on Seymour Hersh's remarkable career and the pugnacious commitment it required, making for an absorbing and instructive treatise on journalistic responsibility.

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Robert Levin

Newsday

5d

4/4

You don't have to be a journalist to appreciate this terrific movie.

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John Anderson

Wall Street Journal

Dec 29

“In case anybody cares,” he tells his directors at one point, “this is becoming less and less fun.” Speak for yourself.

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

Dec 27

5/5

At a moment when truth is increasingly relative, Cover-Up acknowledges the grim continuation of the state apparatus that Hersh first exposed in the aftermath of My Lai. Without journalists of his calibre, we’d be none the wiser.

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Clara Cuccaro

In Review Online

2d

Cover-Up succeeds as a portrait of a journalist shaped by a recently bygone era... [and] reminds viewers of what investigative journalism once demanded, and why those demands still matter.

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Brian Lowry

Status News

3d

7/10

“Cover-Up” at first proves a little too enamored with its 88-year-old subject, whose long list of scoops run from the My Lai Massacre to Abu Ghraib. The film gets more complex in its second half.

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Joel Copling

Spectrum Culture

3d

Both an interesting profile and a sobering reminder of how our political history continues to bleed into the present.

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Stephanie H

@MomSaysImSpecial124 21h

Such a terrible movie, my mom says I'm special because I give the BEST reviews, fuck all the movie reviewers like Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver, I went to special ed so I know I'm smart. (Edit: I'm more smarter cuz i have more chromosomes. My doctor said I have 80 HDs Idk what an HD is but OK i think its a hard drive. He also thinks tism is cute because he said I have aww-tism)

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dave b

22h

Excellent. But, I am 77. I experienced these stories. Younger people will be bored by this.

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Dean C

@Dean2162 1d

Demonstrates the kind of reporting needed during this critical time in US history.

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Simon R

@simon101212 2d

eeh, it was fine enough

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Steve W

@Americano 4d

As a young newspaper reporter and then editor in the late 1960s and early 1970s, I saw many of these same stories develop from initial reports coming off the teletype. Now what a wonderful opportunity to see behind the scenes of his skilled reporting that gave us the full stories that would have otherwise been covered up. Bravo!

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Pete M

@pmartinez8241 6d

Very boring, just wanted to hear about the cover-ups!

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Synopsis

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 and the cycles 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.

Director: Mark Obenhaus, Laura Poitras
Distributor: Netflix
Production Co: Praxis Films
Rating: R (Some Language)
Genre: Documentary, History
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 5, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 26, 2025
Runtime: 1h 57m

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