"Triumphant in Victory, Bitter in Defeat. He Changed the World, But Lost a Nation."

1995

3h 12m

6.9(385 votes)

Drama

History

Overview

A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his Presidency.

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92 members

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Anthony Hopkins

Richard Nixon

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Joan Allen

Pat Nixon

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Powers Boothe

Alexander Haig

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Ed Harris

E. Howard Hunt

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Bob Hoskins

J. Edgar Hoover

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E.G. Marshall

John Mitchell

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David Paymer

Ron Ziegler

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David Hyde Pierce

John Dean

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Paul Sorvino

Henry Kissinger

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Mary Steenburgen

Hannah Nixon

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J. T. Walsh

John Ehrlichman

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James Woods

H.R. Haldeman

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Brian Bedford

Clyde Tolson

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Kevin Dunn

Charles Colson

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Fyvush Finkel

Murray Chotiner

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Annabeth Gish

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

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Tom Bower

Frank Nixon

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Tony Goldwyn

Harold Nixon

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Larry Hagman

Jack Jones

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Edward Herrmann

Nelson Rockefeller

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Madeline Kahn

Martha Mitchell

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Dan Hedaya

Trini Cardoza

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Tony Lo Bianco

Johnny Roselli

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Saul Rubinek

Herb Klein

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Robert Beltran

Frank Sturgis

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John Cunningham

Bob

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John Diehl

Gordon Liddy

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John C. McGinley

Earl in Training Film

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Michael Chiklis

TV Director

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David Barry Gray

Richard Nixon, 19 Years Old

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Joanna Going

Young Student

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George Plimpton

President's Lawyer

Production

Lenny Vullo

Bernard Barker, Watergate Burglar

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Corey Carrier

Richard Nixon, 12 Years Old

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Ronald von Klaussen

James McCord, Watergate Burglar

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John Bedford Lloyd

Cuban Man

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Kamar de los Reyes

Eugenio Martinez, Watergate Burglar

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Enrique Castillo

Virgilio Gonzales, Watergate Burglar

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James Pickens Jr.

Black Orator

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Victor Rivers

Cuban Plumber

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Bridgette Wilson-Sampras

Sandy

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Drew Snyder

Moderator

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Ric Young

Mao Tse-Tung

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Sean Stone

Donald Nixon

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Joshua Duvall Preston

Arthur Nixon

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Ian Calip

Football Player

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Jack Wallace

Football Coach

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Julie Condra

Young Pat Nixon

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Annette Helde

Happy Rockefeller

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Howard Platt

Lawyer at Party

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T.J. Kennedy

Convention Announcer

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Harry S. Murphy

Fan #1

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Suzanne Schnulle Murphy

Fan #2

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Michael Kaufman

Fan #3

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Pamela Dickerson

Girlfriend

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O'Neal Compton

Texas Man

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Chris Renna

Family Doctor

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Wilson Cruz

Joaquin, Hoover's Servant

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Mikey Stone

Edward Nixon

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Robert Marshall

Spiro Agnew

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Marley Shelton

Tricia Nixon Cox

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James Karen

Bill Rogers

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Richard Fancy

Mel Laird

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Peter Carlin

Student #1

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Michelle Krusiec

Student #2

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Wass Stevens

Protester

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Tom Nicoletti

Secret Service Agent #1

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Chuck Pfeiffer

Secret Service Agent #2

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Alexander Butterfield

White House Staffer

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Mark Steines

White House Security

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Bai Ling

Chinese Interpreter

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Peter P. Starson Jr.

Air Force One Steward

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Jon Tenney

Reporter #1

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Julie Araskog

Reporter #2

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Ray Wills

Reporter #3

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Writing

John Bellucci

Reporter #4

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Zoey Zimmerman

Reporter #5

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Mary Rudolph

Rosemary Woods

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Production

Clayton Townsend

Floor Manager #1

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Donna Dixon

Maureen Dean

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John Stockwell

Staffer #1

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Charles Haugk

Staffer #2

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Борис Сичкин

Leonid Brezhnev

Editing

Fima Noveck

Andre Gromyko

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Raissa Danilova

Russian Interpreter

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Marilyn Rockafellow

Helen Smith

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Bill Bolender

Bethesda Doctor

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Melinda Renna

Bethesda Nurse

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Tony Plana

Manolo Sanchez

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Sam Waterston

Richard Helms

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Chuck Riley

Narrator (voice, uncredited)

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Mao Zedong

Self (Archive Footage)

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