Watergate

About the Series

"Watergate" is a special six-hour, three-night event series from Academy Award®-winning director Charles Ferguson that chronicles one of the biggest criminal conspiracies in modern politics and 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 Ben- ...

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Endgame

Aired on Nov 04, 201844m

In the summer of 1974, Congressional impeachment votes, Supreme Court rulings, and further revelations seal Richard Nixon’s fate, leading to his resignation.

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Blowback

Aired on Nov 04, 201844m

The firing of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox and the resulting Saturday Night Massacre prompts impeachment proceedings and a Supreme Court confrontation.

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U.S. v. Nixon

Aired on Nov 03, 201844m

In 1974, the Senate Watergate Committee and the Watergate Special Prosecutor confront Nixon in a deepening Constitutional crisis.

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Things Fall Apart

Aired on Nov 03, 201844m

As the coverup cracks, White House counsel John Dean turns on President Richard Nixon, a Senate committee is formed, and a special prosecutor is appointed.

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Coverup

Aired on Nov 02, 201844m

The Watergate arrests lead to a vast coverup; but after Nixon’s landslide re-election in 1972, the coverup starts to unravel, leaving the presidency exposed.

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The Burglary

Aired on Nov 02, 201844m

On June 17, 1972, police arrest five men who break into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C., setting off the most explosive scandal in American history.