Truth | Official Trailer HD (2015)

On the morning of September 9, 2004, veteran CBS News producer MARY MAPES (Cate Blanchett) believed she had every reason to feel proud of a broadcast journalism job well done. By the end of the day, Mapes, CBS News, and the venerable CBS News anchor DAN RATHER (Robert Redford) would be under harsh scrutiny.

The evening before, 60 Minutes II had aired an investigative report, produced by Mapes and reported on-air by Rather, that purported to reveal new evidence proving that President George W. Bush had possibly shirked his duty during his service as a Texas Air National Guard pilot from 1968 to 1974. The piece asserted that George W. Bush had not only exploited family connections and political privilege to avoid the Vietnam War by joining the Texas Air National Guard, but he had failed for many months to fulfill his most basic Guard obligation-showing up on base.

Mapes and her team of researchers had scrambled under a tight deadline to pull together both on- air eyewitness testimony and newly-disclosed documents to make their case, and they felt confident that their story was solid. In the lead-up to the 2004 Bush v. Kerry presidential election, the "Bush-Guard" story could have had profound ramifications.

But within days after the story broke, George W. Bush's military service record was no longer the focus of media and public scrutiny. Instead, it was 60 Minutes, Mapes, and Rather who were under question: the documents supporting their investigation were denounced as forgeries, and the 60 Minutes staff was accused of shoddy journalism or, perhaps worse, accused of being duped. Eventually, Mapes would lose her job and reputation. Dan Rather would step down prematurely as CBS News anchor.

How did attention end up focused on the journalists who questioned the official version of the story? How did the minutiae of document typefaces, line breaks, and superscripts become seemingly more important to the national discourse than the question of whether the President had failed to fulfill his military obligations? Have journalistic integrity and independence been fundamentally altered in today's newsrooms and boardrooms?

TRUTH is based on Mary Mapes' memoir Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power (2005, St. Martin's Press).

[lindamarks]

Wow! Many of my favourite actors, for the Truth, I so admire them all. We don’t have journalists today, we have puppets.
Thank you

[garycollingwood]

" power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely "

[ramonanaya]

Why have I never heard of this til now????!

[tedcomet]

1:16 did the equivalent of posting something on facebook without checking all the facts and now we have consequences how dare they.

[elijahsackville-glucksburg]

the thing is, the film didn't claimed those events to be the truth.

[jasonpeters]

Cast great...can't believe haven't seen but hope it's good

[elijahroberts]

The aftermath it’s a fun movie from blue pictures classics and rat tac entertainment.

[ThunderKat]

Base on True Story...Enough reason for me to skip most movies.

[rockstrongo]

This narrative kind of implies the documents weren't complete fakes, which they were.

[danielortman]

Why does this film exist? I remember when this happened. The evidence wasn't just a forgery, it was a bad forgery.

[gonzolonzo]

I feel like this premise is week. I feel like most politicians figured out a way to get out of service or service for their children. Or just anyone with money I guess.
Maybe back in the 9/11 freshness period it meant more. Idk though.

[DaHuntersTrophy]

2024 The Assassination attempt of Donald Trump. Trump played by Leonardo DiCaprio.

[manilowmaniak]

One big FLOP. Only mad $5 mil. They took a bath on this one. Cate Blanchett was not the right person for this and neither was Redford, but it is amazing they got so much talent to come together anyway.