Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus' Cover-Up follows Pulitzer-winning journalist Seymour Hersh's dogged pursuit of truth.

WHAT IT'S ABOUT The Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh sits down for the documentary treatment in "Cover-Up" about two decades after its filmmaker, Laura Poitras, first ...

When Seymour Hersh remarks, in one of the superb archival clips excerpted in Cover-Up, that "nobody likes the messenger," he knows what he's talking about. For nearly 60 years he's been delivering ...

The morning of November 13, 1969, the presses rolled at the Chicago Sun-Times with an explosive front-page story: “Officer Charged With Murdering 109 in Viet.” The shocking incident uncovered in the ...

One could list the peaks of his career too – My Lai, Watergate, Abu Ghraib – recognising that these names also represent dark lows of modern American history. “Sy”, as he is known, claims that what a ...

Cover-Up (now on Netflix) finds a stalwart journalist making a documentary about a stalwart journalist. Laura Poitras, Oscar winner for Citizenfour, co-directs (with Mark Obenhaus) a retrospective on ...