The Post

Resource Information

The work The Post represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Barrington Area Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The Post

Statement of responsibility

Twentieth Century Fox, Dreamworks Pictures, and Reliance Entertainment present ; an Amblin Entertainment production ; produced by Amy Pascal, Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger ; written by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer ; directed by Steven Spielberg

Contributor

• Streep, Meryl
• Whitford, Bradley
• Paulson, Sarah, 1974-
• Hannah, Liz, 1985-
• Greenwood, Bruce, 1956-
• Krieger, Kristie Macosko
• Letts, Tracy, 1965-
• Odenkirk, Bob, 1962-
• Pascal, Amy, 1958-
• Hanks, Tom
• Rhys, Matthew, 1974-
• Singer, Josh
• Spielberg, Steven, 1946-

Actor

• Whitford, Bradley
• Streep, Meryl
• Odenkirk, Bob, 1962-
• Letts, Tracy, 1965-
• Greenwood, Bruce, 1956-
• Hanks, Tom
• Rhys, Matthew, 1974-
• Paulson, Sarah, 1974-

Film director

• Spielberg, Steven, 1946-

Film producer

• Spielberg, Steven, 1946-
• Pascal, Amy, 1958-
• Krieger, Kristie Macosko

Screenwriter

• Hannah, Liz, 1985-
• Singer, Josh

Subject

• United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974 -- Drama
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States -- Drama
• Washington Post Company -- Drama
• Women journalists -- Drama
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Biographical films
• Bradlee, Benjamin C. -- Drama
• Civil rights -- Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Films for people with visual disabilities
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Graham, Katharine, 1917-2001 -- Drama
• Historical films
• Newspaper publishing -- Drama
• Pentagon Papers -- Drama

Genre

• Historical films
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Drama
• Films for people with visual disabilities
• Biographical films
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Films for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

Determined to uphold the nation's civil liberties, Katharine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, and hard-nosed editor Ben Bradlee join forces to expose a decades-long cover-up. However, the two must risk their careers and their freedom to bring truth to light

Member of

• Post (Motion picture)

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Music, John Williams ; film editors, Michael Kahn, Sarah Broshar ; production designer, Rick Carter ; director of photography, Janusz Kaminski

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG-13; for language and brief war violence

Language note

English, French or Spanish dialogue; French or Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing; closed-captioned; English descriptive audio track for people with visual disabilities

PerformerNote

Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, Bruce Greenwood, Matthew Rhys

Runtime

116

Technique

live action