THRILLER.
Summit investigation
“Pentagon Papers”, at 9:10 p.m., on France 3.
While the United States was getting bogged down in the Vietnam War, in 1971, the New York Times revealed confidential reports, no less than 7,000 pages classified “top secret » which show that the state lied about the conflict.
The daily is banned from publication.
The Washington Post, its competitor, finds itself faced with a dilemma: to also publish these files, or not…
In 1976, Alan J. Pakula directed Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in "The President's Men," a masterpiece that paid tribute to the investigative journalists who exposed the Watergate affair.
Forty years later, Steven Spielberg was filming “Pentagon Papers”.
At the center of this gripping film, Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks), the editor-in-chief of the “Post”.
He must both fight against pressure from the Nixon administration and convince his publishing director (Meryl Streep) not to give in to the intimidation of the newspaper's financiers.
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