Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) and his team of reporters at The Washington Post got their hands on The Pentagon Papers, research work ordered by Robert McNamara (Bruce Greenwood) on the ongoing war effort.
The Post scrambled to publish as Nixon was pushing an injunction against The New York Times for running similar articles.
The Post covers a crucial standoff between a U.S. President and a free press, one that went all the way to the Supreme Court.
Nixon might have called the Pentagon Papers “Fake news.”