the 1977 film “All the President’s Men,” based on the book “All the President’s Men,” won four Academy Awards at the 49th Academy Awards, including best adapted screenplay and best art direction. The informant to the journalists, code-named Deep Throat, was revealed on May 31, 2005, to be former FBI Deputy Director Mark Felt. [8]
1994 – “Nixon,” Oliver Stone’s biopic of Nixon about the Watergate scandal, stars Anthony Hopkins as Nixon, Joan Allen as Nixon’s wife, Pat Nixon, Ed Harris as former CIA agent Howard Hunt, Mary Steenberg plays Nixon’s mother. [9]
In the 1999 movie “Dick,” two high school girls, played by Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams, get lost and run into President Nixon (Dan Hedaya) during an off-campus tour of the White House. He later joined the whistle-blowing efforts of journalists Bob Woodward (Will Farlow) and Carl Bernstein (Bruce McCulloch). [10]
Watergate was also alluded to in the 1994 movie “Forrest Gump.” [11]
In 2008, the film “Frost/Nixon” was based on Richard Nixon’s famous interview with British host David Frost.
In 2017, the film Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House is based on the story that former FBI Deputy Director Mark Felt, codenamed Deep Throat, disclosed damaging information to a Washington Post reporter, which led to Nixon’s downfall.