The Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American Dream

The Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American Dream

2026
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""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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Status: Released

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies
E2 Films The Watergate Caper LLC
Production Countries
United Kingdom United States of America
Spoken Languages
English

Keywords

watergate scandal richard nixon watergate nixon cia

Quick Facts

Release Date September 18, 2026
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt45821808
Website Visit Site

Cast

Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon

(archive footage)

Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg

(archive footage)

Richard Helms
Richard Helms

(archive footage)

Harry Shearer
Harry Shearer

(voice)

G. Gordon Liddy
G. Gordon Liddy

(archive footage)

E. Howard Hunt
E. Howard Hunt

(archive footage)

Robert Redford
Robert Redford

(archive footage)

Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty

(archive footage)

Earl J. Silbert
Earl J. Silbert

(archive footage)

Rolando Martinez
Rolando Martinez

James McCord
James McCord

Angelo Lano
Angelo Lano

Self

Key Crew

Shane O'Sullivan
Director
Shane O'Sullivan
Producer
Shane O'Sullivan
Writer