by Coop Cooper In the early 1970's, with the Vietnam War still in progress, the official world from the U.S. Government was that the situation was improving. Military analyst Daniel Ellsberg, working for the Rand Corporation, knew the government was lying about the Vietnam situation and unilaterally decided to copy top Secret Documents proving the contrary. The documents make their way to the New York Times which reports the leak but stops short of publishing the documents due to threats of legal action by the Justice Department. The Washington Post headed by executive editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks), which struggled to even get pictures and a story on Nixon's daughter's wedding, wants the papers, but is given no help by publisher Katherine Graham (Meryl Streep) who questions Bradlee's impartiality due to his cozy relationship with the Kennedy family. When an anonymous source delivers the top secret documents to The Washington Post, Bradlee immediately wants to publish them, but he, his staff and Graham all know this could potentially put the paper, their careers and possibly their freedom at stake...