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Starring | Seymour Hersh |
Cinematography | Mia Cioffi Henry [1] |
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Music by | Maya Shenfeld |
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Distributed by | Netflix |
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Running time | 117 minutes [3] |
Country | United States |
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Cover-Up is a 2025 American documentary film produced and directed by Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus. It explores the investigative journalism career of Seymour Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist that covered the U.S. Army torture scandals during the Vietnam War and the Iraq War.
The film had its world premiere out of competition at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on August 29, 2025. [4]
Explores the journalism of Seymour Hersh. [5]
The film had its world premiere out of competition at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on August 29, 2025. [6] It also screened at the 52nd Telluride Film Festival on August 30, and at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival on September 10. [7] [8] It will screen at the 2025 New York Film Festival. [9] In September 2025, Netflix acquired distribution rights to the film. [10]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 100% of 20 critics' reviews are positive. [11] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 83 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". [12]
Award / Film Festival | Date of ceremony | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref. |
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Critics' Choice Documentary Awards | November 9, 2025 | Best Documentary Feature | Cover-up | Pending | [13] |
Best Historical Documentary | Pending | ||||