"Others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself" - President Richard Nixon
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 film premieres at home on September 29, 2026.
The cast is fronted by Richard Nixon, Daniel Ellsberg and Richard Helms. Richard Nixon plays (archive footage).
E2 Films and The Watergate Caper LLC are producing. Shane O'Sullivan directs. The finished film runs 1 hour 45 minutes.
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The Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American Dream is scheduled to premiere on streaming on September 29, 2026. Dates can shift, so check back for updates.
Richard Nixon, Daniel Ellsberg, Richard Helms, Harry Shearer and G. Gordon Liddy lead the cast, directed by Shane O'Sullivan.
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