Official Secrets (2019), worth a look for recent history buffs.

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Bugenhagen, Nov 6, 2019.

  1. Bugenhagen

    Bugenhagen

    I just watched this movie, anyone interested in the history of the 2nd Iraq war would certainty find it interesting.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5431890/

    She risked everything to stop an unjust war. Her government called her a traitor. Based on world-shaking true events, Official Secrets tells the gripping story of Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), a British intelligence specialist whose job involves routine handling of classified information. One day in 2003, in the lead up to the Iraq War, Gun receives a memo from the NSA with a shocking directive: the United States is enlisting Britain’s help in collecting compromising information on United Nations Security Council members in order to blackmail them into voting in favor of an invasion of Iraq. Unable to stand by and watch the world be rushed into an illegal war, Gun makes the gut-wrenching decision to defy her government and leak the memo to the press. So begins an explosive chain of events that will ignite an international firestorm, expose a vast political conspiracy, and put Gun and her family directly in harm’s way.



    On Prime.
     
    Last edited: Nov 6, 2019
  2. Farmas

    Farmas

    This year there were a lot of good films that I liked: Green Book, Ford vs Ferrari, Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood, Joker. There are still little-known works, few have heard or read about them. For example, information about the play "Just Noise" at the European Foundation for Support of Culture https://tourism.gov.mt/en/governmen...ptember2019PressReleasesPages/PR191841en.aspx The plot is based on real events.