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Official Secrets
Why this pick
Like A Private War, it follows a determined woman confronting the human cost of war and state power, with sober urgency, moral pressure and an investigative, fact-grounded feel.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Marie Colvin is a young American journalist who becomes appointed to The Sunday Times for which she begins to travel the world, visiting the most dangerous countries and documenting their civil wars.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Rosamund Pike
Marie Colvin
Jamie Dornan
Paul Conroy
Faye Marsay
Kate Richardson
Nikki Amuka-Bird
Rita Williams
Hilton McRae
Adam Watkins
Jérémie Laheurte
Remi Ochlik
Fady Elsayed
Mourad
Amanda Smith
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