Our Nixon: Season 1

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CNN | Season Premiere Date: August 1, 2013

Summary: The documentary film by Penny Lane and Brian L. Frye used some of the 500 reels of home movies filmed by Nixon's chief of staff H.R. Haldeman, domestic-affairs advisor John Ehrlichman, and appointments secretary Dwight Chapin, as well as interviews, news footage, and White House tapes.

Genre(s): Movie/Mini-Series, News/Documentary, Documentary

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S1:E1. Our Nixon
Air Date: August 1, 2013

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Hank Stuever

Aug 1, 2013

Our Nixon is mainly a collage of images and sounds that tell a familiar story in an entirely new and mesmerizing way. Read full review

Dorothy Rabinowitz

Aug 1, 2013

This highly personal view of the Nixon years is, for obvious reasons, a sad and wrenching one--a film that is nonetheless filled with spirit, humor and a beautiful sense of irony. Read full review

Glenn Garvin

Aug 1, 2013

The result is a blend that’s sometimes funny, occasionally poignant and fitfully horrifying. There are flashes of a Nixon rarely glimpsed or perhaps even suspected. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Aug 1, 2013

Accompanied by interviews as well as audio from the secret tapes Nixon recorded in the White House, it’s a truly absorbing look at the 37th president and the devoted insiders who surrounded him--and in several instances went to jail in his service. Read full review

David Hiltbrand

Aug 1, 2013

The retrieved home movie footage creates a lambent prism through which the '70s seem like a simpler time. It also makes Our Nixon a uniquely dynamic time capsule. Read full review

David Hinckley

Aug 1, 2013

It just feels redundant. Perhaps little or nothing on the home movies lent itself to a richer portrait. Nixon was so guarded, that’s entirely possible. Read full review

Alessandra Stanley

Aug 1, 2013

It’s an engrossing but somewhat aimless and impressionistic ramble through the Nixon presidency and tumult of the 1970s. At times it leans too heavily on artistic license. Read full review

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Season 1

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  Air Date: August 1, 2013
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  S1:E1. Our Nixon
  Air Date: August 1, 2013