Genre: Drama / History / Thriller Director(s): Alan J. Pakula Release Date: 01 January 1976 Movie rating: 8.0

Alan J Pakula’s 1976 political thriller “All the President’s Men” was met with universal acclaim and was one of the biggest box office hits of the year. Based on real life events, it follows the events which have lead to what was to become the famous “Watergate” scandal. The Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) is assigned to follow a burglary case in the Watergate complex where the Democratic National Committee was located at the time. The burglary was conducted by four Cuban Americans from Miami and James W. McCord, a former CIA agent. Woodward connects the burglary to some of the closest associates of the newly re-elected president Richard Nixon. Suspecting there’s more to the story, Woodward’s editor pairs him with Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman), another journalist at the Post. Through Woodward’s high ranking anonymous government source named “Deep Throat” the two receive clues about the importance of the burglary, and the story begins to unravel. Through persistent inquiry and disregard for their own personal safety, Woodward and Bernstein will shed the light on how the Nixon’s administration spent election funds to finance a smear campaign against Nixon’s democratic presidential opponent. The movie ends with Woodward and Bernstein’s story going into press, and in a later montage of news headlines we see how their work has led to the ultimate resignation of president Nixon and the inauguration of Gerald Ford.

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