Aside from the political fallout, the affair highlighted the practice of investigative journalism in the U.S.
Watergate at 50: The Watergate scandal began in 1972 with a bungled break-in at Democratic Party headquarters and ended two years later with the resignation of President Richard M. “One of the best movies ever made about American politics.” – Adrian Turner, Radio Times “A story that has been marshalled with dazzling skill and precision.” – Richard Combs, Sight & Sound “ All the President's Men is a quintessential American movie: It does a lot of things well and makes it all look simple.” – Joseph Gelmis, Newsday A Q&A with Washington journalist, editor, and author Martin Schram will follow the screening. Based on the bestselling book by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, whose reporting on Watergate won a Pulitzer Prize for the Washington Post, Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman portray the journalists as they work to unravel the scandal that ultimately led to the resignation of President Nixon. Watergate looms large in both American political consciousness and in the mythos surrounding the practice of investigative reporting.
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