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Truth (15)
Directed by James Vanderbilt
4/5
AFTER the Oscar-winning Spotlight comes another powerful newsroom drama, this time about the overwhelming pressures from the authorities, financial interests and 24-hour news that have been stifling and slowly killing off investigative journalism.
Truth outlines the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating president George W Bush’s military service record in the run-up to his second presidential election.
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