All the President’s Men
1976, PG, 138 min.
Directed by Alan J. Pakula, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards.

The TeIt’s the movie that inspired a generation of students to apply to journalism school because of its glorification of news reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Drawn from the true adventures of the Washington Post reporters and their illustrious editor Ben Bradlee, the movie heroically recounts the dogged journalistic sleuthing that cracked the story of the Watergate break-in and cover-up.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.