On June 17, 1972, security guard Frank Wills at the Watergate complex finds a door's bolt taped over so that it will not lock.

The story opens in 2010, with the release of the Afghan War Logs.

Rachel Armstrong (Kate Beckinsale) is an ambitious reporter for the Capital Sun-Times.

JFK is a 1991 American epic political thriller film directed by Oliver Stone. It examines the events leading to the assassination of United States President John F.

In early 2003, GCHQ analyst Katharine Gun obtains a memo detailing a joint United States and British operation to spy on diplomats from several non–permanent United Nations Security Council member states Cameroon, Chile, Bulgaria and Guinea in order to "dig dirt" on them and influence the Security Council into passing a resolution supporting an invasion of Iraq.

In 1966, during the Vietnam War, U. S.

Valerie Plame is employed by the Central Intelligence Agency, a fact known outside the agency to no one except her husband and parents.

Zero Dark Thirty is a 2012 American thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal.

A Mighty Heart is a detailed account of the search for kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002.

Eric O'Neill is a young FBI employee assigned to work undercover as a clerk to Robert Hanssen, a senior agent he is told is suspected of being a sexual deviant.

On Sunday, July 23, 1967, the Detroit Police Department stage a raid on an unlicensed club during a celebration for returning black veterans from the Vietnam War.

A narrator states that, when asked about the Kennedy Assassination and the Warren Commission report, United States President Lyndon B.

The film opens as San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Webb interviews drug dealer Ronny Quail, who is outraged that the government used civil asset forfeiture to keep his house even after he was acquitted.

Georgetown is a 2019 crime film directed by Christoph Waltz in his feature directorial debut, and written by David Auburn, based on The New York Times Magazine article "The Worst Marriage in Georgetown" by Franklin Foer.

During a prologue CBS producer Lowell Bergman convinces the founder of Hezbollah, Sheikh Fadlallah, to grant an interview to Mike Wallace for 60 Minutes.

In the months before the US 2004 presidential election, Mary Mapes (producer of the primetime news program 60 Minutes Wednesday) and her crew consisting of Mike Smith (Grace), Lucy Scott (Moss), and Colonel Roger Charles (Quaid) are seeking evidence to verify whether or not George W.

The film opens with Jürgen Mossack and Ramón Fonseca introducing themselves, along with the concept and practices of money laundering.

Veronica Guerin, a crime reporter for the Sunday Independent, becomes aware of how much Dublin's illegal drug trade is encroaching upon the lives of its working class, especially the children, and vows to expose the men responsible.

In North Africa, CIA analyst Douglas Freeman (Jake Gyllenhaal) briefs an agent.

In 1961, senior CIA officer Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) receives a photograph and tape recording after the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion, and obtains a coded signal from "Cardinal.