Watergate

Name: Watergate
Genre: Documentary
Released: October 12, 2018
Duration: 260 min
Rating: 73
Cast: Carl Bernstein, Daniel Ellsberg, Douglas Hodge, John Dean, Mark Dexter

2018

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| Release Date: October 12, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Carl Bernstein, Daniel Ellsberg, Douglas Hodge, John Dean, Mark Dexter, Morton Halperin, Pat Buchanan, Richard Ben-Veniste, Russell Bentley, Stewart Alexander, Stuart Chambers

Summary: Patient compendium drawing from 3400 hours of audio tapes, archival footage, declassified documents, et al, weaves a rich texture of understanding, particularly effective in flashbacks from their current day selves to their Watergate-era roles for such stalwarts as Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward and John Dean. Numerous current day parallelsPatient compendium drawing from 3400 hours of audio tapes, archival footage, declassified documents, et al, weaves a rich texture of understanding, particularly effective in flashbacks from their current day selves to their Watergate-era roles for such stalwarts as Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward and John Dean. Numerous current day parallels are elegantly understated.… Expand

Director: Charles Ferguson

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 260 min

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A.O. Scott

Oct 16, 2018

Ferguson’s narrative is so dense and complicated, and at the same time so dramatic, suspenseful and clear, that it absorbs all of your attention. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Feb 13, 2019

In the course of a mammoth, horribly absorbing four-hour film from Charles Ferguson we are immersed in a world of milky TV news footage, big lapels, bulbous combovers, dirty tricks, sweat, jowls and guilt. Read full review

Stephen Whitty

Feb 13, 2019

Watergate is a fascinating film that both draws disturbing parallels and offers the opposition encouragement. Read full review

Todd McCarthy

Oct 17, 2018

There is plenty to relish here in the first-hand accounts offered up by the couple of dozen witnesses called upon by Ferguson. Read full review

Robert Abele

Oct 18, 2018

Though this look back is formidably researched and should appeal to both obsessives and the uninformed, it’s the insistent echo to our present upheaval, and the refreshing reminder that a polarized nation only got more unified in its desire for the truth, that gives “Watergate” its peculiarly of-the-moment power. Read full review

Daniel D'Addario

Oct 17, 2018

The pace never flags, but some of its entertaining devices work against Ferguson’s insightfulness. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Oct 17, 2018

The parallels between Watergate and Trumpocalypse are so boggling that they preclude any other reason for why Ferguson chose to make this film now. And yet, it’s the film’s deliberate timing that calls its value into question. Read full review

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