The Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American Dream (2026)
"Others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself" - President Richard Nixon
Overview
The Watergate Caper is an archival documentary, narrated by Harry Shearer (This is Spinal Tap), tracing the rise and fall of Nixon from the presidential primaries of 1968 through the Watergate break-in of June 1972 to his resignation two years later, killing trust in the political process and the American presidency in the wake of the Vietnam War. The film draws on hundreds of hours of TV news taped off-air by the Nixon White House to tell the untold story of the Watergate burglars. How did tapping the wrong phone with a bug that didn't work lead to their arrests and Nixon's resignation? It also explores representations of the Nixon years in popular culture, using the music, commercials, and cinema of the era to evoke a fevered political landscape of culture wars, dirty tricks, paranoia and assassination.
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The Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American Dream Cast
Richard Nixon
as (archive footage)
Daniel Ellsberg
as (archive footage)
Richard Helms
as (archive footage)
Harry Shearer
as (voice)
G. Gordon Liddy
as (archive footage)
E. Howard Hunt
as (archive footage)
Robert Redford
as (archive footage)
Warren Beatty
as (archive footage)
Earl J. Silbert
as (archive footage)
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Rolando Martinez
- J
James McCord
- A
Angelo Lano
as Self
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The Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American Dream came out on September 18, 2026.
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The Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American Dream runs 105 minutes (1h 45m).
