Seymour Hersh Reflects on a Career of Exposing Government Secrets in Cover-Up

Directed by Mark Obenhaus and Laura Poitras, the film celebrates the career of journalist Seymour Hersh, highlighting his work with the Associated Press, the New York Times, and The New Yorker. It focuses on the stories he broke exposing government secrets related to the Vietnam and Iraq Wars. Hersh opened up his decades of reporting files to the filmmakers, pausing his work on his Substack newsletter, and the film also features interviews with those who collaborated with him – his co-writers, editors, and fact-checkers – about how he approached his reporting.







