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Summary 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. Dr...

Directed By: Mark Obenhaus, Laura Poitras

  • 2025
  • R
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 57 m
  • 2025
  • R
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 57 m

Cover-Up

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Summary 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. Dr...

Directed By: Mark Obenhaus, Laura Poitras

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Dec 5, 2025
100
Poitras questions him on the less glorious moments of his career, too, so that he emerges as a flawed human rather than a bastion of perfect judgement. This is not a perfect documentary either, with the breathless dash through his post My Lai journalism sometimes feeling overwhelming. Yet perfection is not the point when something impossible has been bottled: it’s something called the truth.
By Sophie Monks Kaufman FULL REVIEW
Sep 5, 2025
90
Cover-Up pays fitting tribute to a man who has made it his life’s work to seek out and expose the hardest of truths.
By Nikki Baughan FULL REVIEW
Sep 5, 2025
90
As a documentary subject, Hersh is thoroughly engaging — by turns charming, surly and vulnerable. He opens himself to the attention of filmmakers Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus with a sense of purpose, a bit of squirming, and occasional flares of regret.
By Sheri Linden FULL REVIEW
Sep 5, 2025
83
At a time when the American government is waging a sustained attack on investigative journalism, and on the very nature of truth itself, to watch Cover-Up is not just to wonder what they might be trying to hide, but also to recognize that we’ve seen it before.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
Oct 9, 2025
80
Brisk, lucid and sweeping, Cover-Up assures that some, at least, will not.
By Adrian Horton FULL REVIEW
Sep 5, 2025
80
As Cover-Up reveals, the key lesson of Seymour Hersh’s career is that when it comes to crucial stories of corruption, just about every situation is layered, booby-trapped, woven with deception.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
Sep 5, 2025
70
Cover-Up is an overall captivating, invigorating watch. Without editorializing too obviously, Poitras and Obenhaus have created an incredibly impactful and, at times, infuriating look at America’s history of violent imperfection, showing that when it comes to holding our nation accountable, journalists like Seymour Hersh are an absolute necessity.
By Cody Dericks FULL REVIEW

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Production Company
  • Plan B Entertainment
  • Praxis Films
  • Submarine Deluxe
Release Date Dec 5, 2025
Duration 1 h 57 m
Rating R
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Awards

Montclair Film Festival (MFF)
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
International Documentary Association
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 2 Nominations

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