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Cover-Up

Cover-Up

2025•1h 57m•7.0/10
Documentary

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7.0/10(30)

He's devoted his career to uncovering stories the powerful want buried. From My Lai to Abu Ghraib, dig into the life's work of journalist Seymour Hersh.

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Praxis Films, Plan B Entertainment, Submarine Deluxe, GreenSlate, Postworks New York

Language

EN

Status

Released

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Cast

Seymour Hersh

Seymour Hersh

Self - Investigative Journalist

Jeff Gerth

Self - The New York Times

David Obst

Self - Dispatch News

Bob Woodward

Bob Woodward

Self - The Washington Post

Max Friedman

Self - Former Research Assistant

Amy Davidson Sorkin

Self - The New Yorker

Antonio Taguba

Self - U.S. Army Major General

Camille Lo Sapio

Self - Anonymous Source

Isador Hersh

Self - Father of Seymour Hersh (archive footage)

Dorothy Hersh

Self - Mother of Seymour Hersh (archive footage)

Alan Hersh

Self - Brother of Seymour Hersh (archive footage)

Elizabeth Klein Hersh

Self - Wife of Seymour Hersh (archive footage)

Salvador Allende

Salvador Allende

Self - Chilean President (archive footage)

James Jesus Angleton

Self - CIA Chief of Counterintelligence (archive footage)

Michael Bernhardt

Self - U.S. Army Sergeant (archive footage)

Carl Bernstein

Carl Bernstein

Self - The Washington Post (archive footage)

William Calley

Self - U.S. Army Lieutenant (archive footage)

George H. W. Bush

George H. W. Bush

Self - Former CIA Director (archive footage)

Frank Church

Frank Church

Self - Chairman, Senate Select Committee (archive footage)

William Colby

William Colby

Self - Former CIA Director (archive footage)

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