Cover-Up (2025) review

Documentarians Poitras and Obenhaus manage to get investigative reporter Seymour M. Hersh to sit down with them and discuss several of his most important pieces - which he was informed of via "anonymous sources" - including the My Lai massacre (during the Vietnam War), the Watergate scandal, the Central Intelligence Agency's domestic spying program and the use of torture at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.  The collection of archival footage and photographs is presented in a clean and efficient manner (Hersh's scribblings are only intelligible to him) and it brings up multiple deeply shameful moments in American history that demand to be remembered, but Hersh himself remains notoriously evasive: he talks a little about his wife (psychoanalyst Elizabeth) and children and some of the connections he's made, yet he's been so guarded for so long it's not like they were ever going to have a real "breakthrough" moment with him.  It serves as a key reminder to future generations that no one is above the Constitution, and it's the responsibility of the journalist to protect the whistleblowers risking their lives to provide top secret information to them.