Movies about whistleblowers are still relevant, but this particular subgenre has a rich, storied tradition.
The Informant!
(He wrote aNew York Timesop-ed debunking the administration’s WMD rationale.)

Adam Driver in ‘The Report’; Matt Damon in ‘The Informant’; Julia Roberts in ‘Erin Brockovich’.Credit: Atsushi Nishijima/Amazon; Everett Collection (2)
“We’re still very much living with it.”
“[I want] to help have this information be disseminated out into the world.
It’s really important.

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It’s been underreported, and it touches all of our lives.
It transcends politics and ideologies.
It’s one place I think where we can meet communally.”

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