- Network: Discovery Channel
- Series Premiere Date: Apr 21, 2013
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This excellent, Robert Redford-narrated look at both the Watergate scandal and the film it inspired backs up the comic's [Louis C.K.'s] assertion about politics never being more insane.
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While the story is briskly and engagingly told, with some key players debriefed, there's not a lot new here. It's a very good beginner's history.
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More a sketch than a thorough retelling--though still recommended as such--and as balanced as you can be about the scandal given the facts, the film begins at the end, or just before it, with the remarkable, once much-bootlegged footage of Nixon preparing to resign.
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[A] powerful and impressive 40th anniversary retrospective on the Watergate case and the movie it spawned, “All the President’s Men.”
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All the President’s Men Revisited is nonetheless well worth a look, less because it is so well made than because the subject is still so captivating.
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A fresh and even stirring reminiscence.
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Somewhat diluted in its split focus on Richard Nixon’s presidential malfeasance and the movie devoted to those acts, the two-hour doc doesn’t break much new ground, but does pore over familiar terrain, and its lingering implications, in an entertaining way.
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While little here will be new to viewers with memories of the original events, it is all rehashed lucidly and may well prove eye-opening to younger viewers.
Awards & Rankings
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Positive: 2 out of 3
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Mixed: 1 out of 3
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Jan 14, 2015