As Bradlee and his team worked to unearth the truth, Washington Post publisher Kay Graham (Meryl Streep) was wrestling with the legality of publishing documents the current administration, under President Nixon, didn’t want to go public.
It’s an urgent story, with contemporary ties, and one that Steven Spielberg felt needed to be told sooner rather than later.
The Post tells the story of the staff of The Washington Post, led by esteemed executive editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks), and their mission to acquire and publish the Pentagon Papers — documents that showed our government as being dishonest in their summation of the ongoing war in Vietnam.