the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Jan 5, 2026
This documentary of journalist Seymour Hersh tells the story not just of his six decades of daring exposés of egregious cover-ups but also revisits the events that led to his reporting. It is more of a historical documentary of atrocities than a memoir. He was instrumental in forcing the media to cover the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam war, where American troops executed in cold blood over 500 civilians, and in showing this was not an isolated incident. He reported on Watergate; on the gruesome torture by the U.S. military during the Iraq war in the Abu Ghraib prison, backed up by horrendous photos; on the CIA’s illegal surveillance of the U.S. student movement in the 1960s; on the U.S. involvement in the installment of the dictator Augusto Pinochet in Chile; and continues even today at age 88 with events in Gaza. The film examines his work with a critical eye; he of course made mistakes. But he never relented from trying to shine a light on some of our darkest history.