Official Secrets

Her government called her a traitor. Based on true events, the story of Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), a British intelligence specialist who received a shocking memo in 2003: the United States is enlisting Britain's help in blackmailing United Nations Security Council members so they vote in favour of the Iraq War. Unable to stand by, Gun defies her government and leaks the memo to the press, beginning an explosive chain of events that will ignite an international firestorm, expose a vast political conspiracy and put Gun and her family in harm's way.

Critic Reviews:

• " Official Secrets' unshowy craftmanship is persuasive in its building of suspense. " – Yasmin Omar

• " Powered by a kinetic sense of style and full-throated performances, illuminating and transcending a story that could quite simply have been just another political thriller. " – Tom Beasley

• " In it's narrative everything is measured. It also points to a very subtle argument about the abuses of power, the ethics of duty and the meaning of morality in times of war. " – Yasser Medina