"Pushes all the right buttons and triggers all the right outraged reactions." - Screen International
"Knightley is sensational." - The Times
"The most gripping thriller of 2019 is here. Official Secrets is a pulse-pounding true drama about the rarest of government workers these days: someone who actually has a conscience." - Deadline
OFFICIAL SELECTION: Sundance Film Festival
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 Katherine 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.