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“All the President’s Men”
Released April 9, 1976
Directed by Alan J. Pakula

Movies tend to portray news reporters as a lot more glamorous than reality suggests, but then again, you can probably say that about most professions. In any event, it's pretty astonishing that the forces behind 1976's "All the President's Men" not only presented the dry realism of investigative reporting, but made it so compelling that the film achieved top-level critical and box office success.

The movie depicts the true-life events, investigation, and reporting that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon from the perspective of two journalists from The Washington Post, Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman). The movie, based on the book of the same name by Woodward and Bernstein, only documents the beginning of their investigation, so viewers don't even get the expected conclusion that occurred only two years earlier at the time of the film's release.

And yet, millions of people wanted to see this. Given its legacy within film history, many people still do.