All the President’s Men (1976): This brilliant, engrossing film is based on the true-to-life novel of the same name and came as the country was reeling from the Watergate scandal that cost President Richard Nixon his presidency. The true crime is that the star and hero that set the extraordinary events in motion, security guard Frank Willis who caught the Watergate thieves, was never really compensated and died a broken-hearted and impoverished recluse in Augusta, Ga. But the ensuing scandal turned two rookie reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, into journalism icons overnight.
