Cover-Up (2025)

Name: Cover-Up
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2025-12-19
Duration: 117 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Seymour Hersh, Jeff Gerth, David Obst, Bob Woodward, Max Friedman

Released 19 December 2025
Runtime 1h 57m
Director Laura Poitras
Genres Documentary History
Rating 7.0/10 (50 votes)

Synopsis

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.

Cast

Seymour Hersh as Self - Investigative Journalist
Jeff Gerth as Self - The New York Times
David Obst as Self - Dispatch News
Bob Woodward as Self - The Washington Post
Max Friedman as Self - Former Research Assistant
Amy Davidson Sorkin as Self - The New Yorker
Antonio Taguba as Self - U.S. Army Major General
Camille Lo Sapio as Self - Anonymous Source
Isador Hersh as Self - Father of Seymour Hersh (archive footage)
Dorothy Hersh as Self - Mother of Seymour Hersh (archive footage)
Alan Hersh as Self - Brother of Seymour Hersh (archive footage)
Elizabeth Klein Hersh as Self - Wife of Seymour Hersh (archive footage)
Salvador Allende as Self - Chilean President (archive footage)
James Jesus Angleton as Self - CIA Chief of Counterintelligence (archive footage)
Michael Bernhardt as Self - U.S. Army Sergeant (archive footage)
Carl Bernstein as Self - The Washington Post (archive footage)
William Calley as Self - U.S. Army Lieutenant (archive footage)
George H. W. Bush as Self - Former CIA Director (archive footage)