Film

Nixon 1995

Directed by Oliver Stone

  • Drama, History
  • 192 min
  • R

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

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.

DramaHistoryusa presidentwashington dc, usagovernmentpresidential election1970swatergate scandalbiographyhistorical figurerichard nixon1960sambiguousdisapproving

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Epic, grave, earnest and classical in form.

  • intimateepic
  • gravecomic
  • earnestironic
  • classical in formformally daring
  • unpretentiousprestige

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