Directed by:
Gavin HoodCinematography:
Florian HoffmeisterCast:
Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Matt Smith, Adam Bakri, Matthew Goode, Indira Varma, John Heffernan, Rhys Ifans, Conleth Hill, Jeremy Northam, Tamsin Greig (more)VOD (5)
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She risked everything to stop an unjust war. Her government called her a traitor. Based on world-shaking true events, Official Secrets tells the gripping story of Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), a British intelligence specialist whose job involves routine handling of classified information. One day in 2003, in the lead up to the Iraq War, Gun receives a memo from the NSA with a shocking directive: the United States is enlisting Britain's help in collecting compromising information on United Nations Security Council members in order to blackmail them into voting in favor of an invasion of Iraq. Unable to stand by and watch the world be rushed into an illegal war, Gun makes the gut-wrenching decision to defy her government and leak the memo to the press. So begins an explosive chain of events that will ignite an international firestorm, expose a vast political conspiracy, and put Gun and her family directly in harm's way. (Universal Pictures UK)
(more)Cast
Keira Knightley
UK
Best movies:
Love Actually (2003)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Atonement (2007)
Ralph Fiennes
UK
Best movies:
Schindler's List (1993)
Prime Suspect (1991) (TV movie)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Matt Smith
UK
Best movies:
An Adventure in Space and Time (2013) (TV movie)
House of the Dragon (2022) (series)
Official Secrets (2019)
Adam Bakri
Best movies:
Omar (2013)
Official Secrets (2019)
Ali and Nino (2016)
Matthew Goode
UK
Best movies:
The Imitation Game (2014)
Match Point (2005)
Roots (2016) (series)
Indira Varma
UK
Best movies:
Present Laughter (2019) (theatrical recording)
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
Official Secrets (2019)
John Heffernan
UK
Best movies:
King Lear (2008) (TV movie)
Ripper Street (2012) (series)
Foyle's War (2002) (series)
Rhys Ifans
UK
Best movies:
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
The Boat That Rocked (2009)
House of the Dragon (2022) (series)
Conleth Hill
UK
Best movies:
Foyle's War (2002) (series)
Official Secrets (2019)
Whatever Works (2009)
Jeremy Northam
UK
Best movies:
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) (series)
Official Secrets (2019)
Amistad (1997)
Tamsin Greig
UK
Best movies:
Jonathan Creek (1997) (series)
Going Postal (2010) (TV movie)
Green Wing (2004) (series)
Jack Farthing
UK
Best movies:
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) (series)
Official Secrets (2019)
Burn Burn Burn (2015)
Monica Dolan
UK
Best movies:
King Lear (2008) (TV movie)
Wolf Hall (2015) (series)
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) (series)
Gabrielle Downey
Best movies:
Me Before You (2016)
Official Secrets (2019)
Stonehearst Asylum (2014)
Fiona Skinner
Best movies:
Endeavour (2012) (series)
Official Secrets (2019)
Our Girl (2013) (TV movie)
MyAnna Buring
Sweden
Best movies:
Ripper Street (2012) (series)
Inspector George Gently (2007) (series)
Official Secrets (2019)
Peter Guinness
UK
Best movies:
Chernobyl (2019) (series)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Cadfael (1994) (series)
Ray Panthaki
UK
Best movies:
Boiling Point (2021)
Official Secrets (2019)
28 Days Later (2002)
Hattie Morahan
UK
Best movies:
The Bank Job (2008)
Official Secrets (2019)
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Katherine Kelly
UK
Best movies:
Official Secrets (2019)
Dirty God (2019)