Official secrets

Resource Information

The work Official secrets represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Westfield Public Library (Ethel Everhard Memorial). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Official secrets

Statement of responsibility

Entertainment One presents ; in association with GS Media and Screen Yorkshire ; a Classified Films and Clear Pictures Entertainment production ; in association with Silver Reel ; written by Sara Bernstein & Gregory Bernstein and Gavin Hood ; produced by Ged Doherty, Elizabeth Fowler, Melissa Shiyu Zuo ; directed by Gavin Hood

Contributor

• IFC Films
• Hood, Gavin
• Entertainment One UK
• Ifans, Rhys, 1967-
• Kelly, Katherine, 1979-
• Knightley, Keira, 1985-
• Northam, Jeremy, 1961-
• Smith, Matt, 1982-
• Varma, Indira
• Bernstein, Sara
• Buring, MyAnna, 1984-
• Fiennes, Ralph
• Bernstein, Gregory, 1955-
• Goode, Matthew, 1978-
• Bakri, Adam
• Greig, Tamsin, 1967-
• Hill, Conleth, 1964-

Actor

• Smith, Matt, 1982-
• Knightley, Keira, 1985-
• Kelly, Katherine, 1979-
• Ifans, Rhys, 1967-
• Northam, Jeremy, 1961-
• Hill, Conleth, 1964-
• Bakri, Adam
• Greig, Tamsin, 1967-
• Goode, Matthew, 1978-
• Fiennes, Ralph
• Buring, MyAnna, 1984-
• Varma, Indira

Film director

• Hood, Gavin

Screenwriter

• Hood, Gavin
• Bernstein, Gregory, 1955-
• Bernstein, Sara

Subject

• Action and adventure films
• Biographical films
• Feature films
• Gun, Katharine
• Intelligence service
• Intelligence service -- Great Britain
• Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Secret service
• Spy films
• Videodiscs for people with visual disabilities
• Videodiscs for the hearing impaired
• Wire-tapping

Genre

• Videodiscs for the hearing impaired
• Feature films
• Videodiscs for people with visual disabilities
• Biographical films
• Spy films
• Action and adventure films

Language

• eng
• eng
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

The incredible true story of the spy who defied her government to stop a war. In 2003, British intelligence specialist Katharine Gun received a memo with a shocking directive: collect blackmail worthy information on UN council members to force the vote for the invasion of Iraq. Unable to stand by and watch the world rush into war. Gun makes the decision to leak the memo to the press, igniting an international firestorm that would expose a vast political conspiracy and put Gun in harm's way

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

Rating: R; for language

Language note

English dialogue; English or Spanish subtitles; English audio description; closed-captioned

LC call number

PN1997.2

LC item number

.O445 2019

PerformerNote

Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Katherine Kelly, Ralph Fiennes, Indira Varma, Matt Smith, Rhys Ifans, Myanna Buring, Tamsin Greig, Jeremy Northam, Conleth Hill, Adam Bakri

Runtime

111

Technique

live action