"The Good Shepherd is a fictionalized version of history which is accurate in almost every incident. But because the filmmakers are liberated from trying to be faithful to the tiny details, they've come a lot closer in many ways to capturing some essential truths about this extraordinary period of intelligence, counterintelligence, betrayal and espionage during the Cold War...There's no way to understand the present without understanding how we got there. And The Good Shepherd tells us."
--Richard C. A. Holbrooke,
United States Ambassador to the United Nations, 1999-2001

The untold story of the birth of the Central Intelligence Agency -- viewed through the life of one man who believed in America and would sacrifice everything he loved to protect his country -- is told in The Good Shepherd, an epic drama that features an all-star cast starring Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie -- under the direction of Academy Award winner Robert De Niro.