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The new movie, starring tom hanks as editor ben bradlee and meryl streep as publisher katharine graham, skipped some great history. Steven spielberg, tom hanks and meryl streep are teaming up to make the post, a movie about the pentagon papers in 1971. The script was written by liz hannah and josh singer, and the film features. In an interview tom hanks did at the newseum premiere with current post editor baron.
The steven spielberg drama focuses on the events surrounding publication of the leaked pentagon papers in 1971. Pete hammond says its another masterpiece from the filmmaker. Given the movies content and how it deals with the american media, hanks says that hes not. The new york times had not only published the pentagon papers before the. The story of chesley sully sullenberger tom hanks, an american pilot who became a hero after landing his damaged plane on the hudson river in order to save the flights passengers and crew. In 1971, following the public revelation of the pentagon papers, both the.
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Secretary of defense robert mcnamara ordered the study in 1967 and it was completed in 1969. It stars meryl streep as katharine graham, the first female publisher of a major american newspaper, and tom hanks as ben bradlee, the executive editor. Steven spielberg, meryl streep, and tom hanks star in the post, a movie about how the washingon post published the pentagon papers. Read the true story behind the controversial papers.
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