Official Secrets

“Nothing is more dangerous than the truth.”

Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), a translator at GCHQ in the weeks before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, wants to stop a war she believes rests on a lie. She has read a leaked NSA memo asking British intelligence to help spy on members of the UN Security Council and pressure them into voting for it. Gavin Hood follows the memo to the newsroom of Martin Bright (Matt Smith), where a document turns into a question of what a country owes the people it governs.