Official Secrets (15)

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Official Secrets (15)

Mon 1 Jan 0001 - Thu 31 Oct 2019, Screen Two

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CERTIFICATE 15: PHOTO ID MAY BE REQUIRED TO GAIN ENTRY TO THE SCREENING

Director: Gavin Hood
Starring: Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Ralph Fiennes.

In 2003, as politicians in Britain and the US angle to invade Iraq, GCHQ translator Katharine Gun leaks a classified e-mail that urges spying on members of the UN Security Council to force through the resolution to go to war. Charged with breaking the Official Secrets Act, and facing imprisonment, Katharine and her lawyers set out to defend her actions. With her life, liberty and marriage threatened, she must stand up for what she believes in…

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