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<i>The Post</i> is a historical drama that depicts the publication of the <i>Pentagon Papers</i> that detailed thirty years of involvement by the United States in Vietnam. These documents had the effect of increased hostility to the war, as they demonstrated a negative view of the war by the US government at a time when the government gave a more positive view and increased the war effort. The film focuses on the publication of the papers and Katharine Graham, who was the first female publisher of a major US newspaper.

==Main Plot==

The film begins in 1966 when then Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on flight home from Vietnam expressing a negative view of the war effort and how it cannot be won. However, after arriving back in the US, McNamara gives a glowing review of the war effort. Daniel Ellsberg had gone with McNamara as part of a Pentagon review of the war effort, where Ellsberg had worked for the RAND Corporation in charge of the review. Ellsberg is shown being dismayed at the negativity while the government portrayed a different perception.