Washington Post owner Katherine Graham courageously allowed executive editor Ben Bradlee to publish the Pentagon Papers. It is difficult to imagine journalists so independent or committed if you follow the Indian media

Steven Spielberg's The Post is both enjoyable and significant. Briefly, it tells of the publication of The Pentagon Papers, the highly-classified studies of the USA's involvement in Vietnam from the 1950s onwards. Daniel Ellsberg, who served in the war and whose conscience was shaken by years of governmental lies, leaked the papers to the New York Times. Richard Nixon's justice department got a court injunction against further publication (on the familiar ground of "national security"), so the Washington Post took it up. Post owner Katherine Graham courageously allowed executive editor Ben Bradlee to publish the papers. They were vindicated when the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the Times on the ground of freedom of expression. Despite the absence of explosions and car chases and bikinis, it is fast-paced and engrossing.