Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks make their mark in The Post.

Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep have appeared in the first trailer for the new Steven Spielberg movie about the Pentagon Papers.

Streep stars as The Washington Post’s first female publisher and Hanks as her editor in The Post.

Set in 1971, the film tells the story of the newspaper’s legal battle to report a damning classified study about the role of the US in the Vietnam War.

The Pentagon Papers involved the cover-up of government secrets that spanned four decades and four US presidents.

By Sherna Noah.

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