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Cover-Up review – Laura Poitras’s Seymour Hersh documentary is a thrilling ode to journalism | Documentary films

Cover-Up review – Laura Poitras’s Seymour Hersh documentary is a thrilling ode to journalism | Documentary films

It’s not hard to imagine why documentarian Laura Poitras spent 20 years trying to convince Seymour Hersh to make a film about his life. The 88-year-old Pulitzer-winning journalist has an impressive résumé. It was Hersh who broke the story, in 1969, of the horrific US army massacre of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai, invigorating the US anti-war movement; 35 years …

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