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Cover-Up

2025 · Documentary · Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus · 1h 58m

The reporter Seymour Hersh walks through fifty years of his own work: the My Lai massacre, the secret bombing of Cambodia, Watergate, the CIA spying at home, Abu Ghraib. Interviews and archive throughout.

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