The Report (styled as The Torture Report) is a 2019 American historical political drama film written and directed by Scott Z. Burns that stars Adam Driver, Annette Bening, Jon Hamm, Ted Levine, Michael C. Hall, Tim Blake Nelson, Corey Stoll, and Maura Tierney.

[9] At a briefing with Senator Feinstein in her office, Jones describes evidence from the CIA's own records that prove the agency knew Zubaydah was not a high-ranking member of Al-Qaeda, as they falsely reported to the DOJ.

April and Jones uncover the story of Gul Rahman, who died from hypothermia in 2002 after CIA interrogators threw water on him and left him chained to the ground overnight in a 36 °F (2 °C) cell.

Jones meets with Senator Feinstein and her staffer Marcy Morris to inform them about the CIA inspector general's report of the incident.

Brennan tells Jones and Senator Feinstein that he disagrees with many parts of the report and will not allow it to be published without modification, so Jones has a series of meetings with CIA representatives, who raise several objections to key findings in the report, such as that no unique intel was obtained by using EITs, or the fact that Mitchell and Jessen were unqualified to be offering advice on interrogation techniques, but were nevertheless paid $81 million of taxpayer money for their efforts.

[13] Jones meets with a New York Times national security reporter and suggests he look into the hacking of Senate computers by the CIA, careful to provide no specific details.

Senator Feinstein tells Jones that she is prepared to release a shorter summary of the report, but President Barack Obama grants the CIA broad authority to redact it first.

Jones points out that the CIA's proposed heavy redactions make many of the revelations detailed in the summary impossible to follow, but the agency claims that even the pseudonyms used could endanger the lives of its agents.

[14] The Republican Party wins control of the Senate in the November 2014 midterm elections, meaning the report will likely be buried forever when the new Congress is sworn in January 2015.

An epilogue, delivered through a series of intertitles, explains that Jones left his job as a Senate staffer after the summary of the report was released.

It is also noted that no CIA officers were ever criminally charged in connection with the actions outlined in the report, that many were in fact promoted, and that one (an allusion to Gina Haspel) later became director of the agency.

The film was announced in April 2018, with Scott Z. Burns directing and writing, and Adam Driver, Annette Bening, Jon Hamm, and Jennifer Morrison signed on to star.

[15][16] When asked by PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown about his motivation for making a film inspired by the controversial 2014 Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture, Burns replied that both of his parents are psychologists, and he found it "appalling" to learn from the report[17] that "people had figured out a way to weaponize psychology," a profession that "exists to help people.

"[18] Burns further said that he and producer Steven Soderbergh felt it reflected well on the United States that the government allowed the summary of the report to be published.

[1] The Report had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2019,[23] and Amazon Studios acquired its distribution rights shortly thereafter for $14 million.