--- title: Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett in Truth Trailer description: The film examines 2004's Rathergate controversy canonical: https://time.com/4046486/redford-blanchett-truth-trailer/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-23T15:56:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T11:11:38.165Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett in Truth Trailer og:description: The film examines 2004's Rathergate controversy og:url: https://time.com/4046486/redford-blanchett-truth-trailer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett in Truth Trailer twitter:description: The film examines 2004's Rathergate controversy twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett Team Up in New _Truth_ Trailer by [Megan Daley / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Megan Daley / Entertainment Weekly Sep 23, 2015 3:56 PM UTC by [Megan Daley / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Megan Daley / Entertainment Weekly Sep 23, 2015 3:56 PM UTC Back in 2004, Dan Rather, CBS producer Mary Mapes and the _60 Minutes_ team found themselves in the middle of a controversy, which would later be known as Rathergate. The crew had cast doubt on President George W. Bush’s national guard service during the Vietnam War right in the midst of the election – but soon, they found themselves on the defensive. The upcoming film, _Truth_, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this month, gives a behind-the-scenes look at the story of Rather, Mapes, and their team, which suffered from blowback when essential pieces of their evidence were called into question. Inspired by Mapes’ 2005 memoir, _Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power_, the latest trailer, courtesy of [Yahoo!](https://www.yahoo.com/movies/robert-redford-and-cate-blanchett-weather-135931367.html), shows how the “Holy Grail of documents” led to big-time consequences as the “hunt” for the truth was quickly underway. _Truth_, written and directed by first-time filmmaker James Vanderbilt, stars Robert Redford, Cate Blanchett, Topher Grace, Elisabeth Moss, Bruce Greenwood, and Dennis Quaid and debuts in select theaters on Oct. 16. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/23/robert-redford-cate-blanchett-truth-trailer) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4046486/redford-blanchett-truth-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4046486/redford-blanchett-truth-trailer/"},"headline":"Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett Team Up in New Truth Trailer","datePublished":"2015-09-23T15:56:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:11:38.165Z","description":"The film examines 2004's Rathergate controversy","url":"https://time.com/4046486/redford-blanchett-truth-trailer/","keywords":["movies","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Daley / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4046486/redford-blanchett-truth-trailer/","name":"Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett Team Up in New Truth Trailer"}}]}] ```