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Airdate: Watergate

SBS screens 6 part US doco on the scandal that led to Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974.

From Sunday SBS screens 6 part US documentary Watergate, on the scandal that led to Richard Nixon’s resignation in 1974.

This was produced by the History Channel.

From Academy Award® winning director Charles Ferguson (Inside Job), Watergate chronicles one of the biggest criminal conspiracies in modern politics, telling the entire story of the Watergate scandal from the first troubling signs in Richard Nixon’s presidency to his resignation and beyond. This definitive documentary series features a roster of some of the most important media, legal and political figures from the scandal, including Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, John Dean, Jill Wine-Banks, Richard BenVeniste, among many others.

Episode One: The Burglary
After Richard Nixon’s election, attacks from the media and the antiwar movement goad him to take the dark path to the Watergate burglary.

Episode Two: Coverup
The Watergate arrests lead to a vast coverup; but after Nixon’s landslide re-election, the coverup starts to unravel.

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