Official Secrets

One day in 2003, in the lead up to the Iraq War, British intelligence specialist Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley) receives a memo from the NSA with a shocking directive: the United States is enlisting Britain's help in collecting compromising information on U.N. Security Council members to blackmail them into voting in favour of an invasion of Iraq. Unable to stand by and watch the world be rushed into war, Gun makes the gut-wrenching decision to defy her government and leak the memo to the press.

Credits & Cast

Director

Gavin Hood

Producers

Ged Doherty
Elizabeth Fowler
Melissa Shiyu Zuo

Cast

Keira Knightley
Matt Smith
Matthew Goode
Rhys Ifans
Adam Bakri
and Ralph Fiennes