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.
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Cast
- Anthony HopkinsRichard Nixon
- Joan AllenPat Nixon
- Powers BootheAlexander Haig
- Ed HarrisE. Howard Hunt
- Bob HoskinsJ. Edgar Hoover
- E.G. MarshallJohn Mitchell
- David PaymerRon Ziegler
- David Hyde PierceJohn Dean
- Paul SorvinoHenry Kissinger
- Mary SteenburgenHannah Nixon
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- Oliver StoneDirector
- Oliver StoneScreenplay
- Stephen J. RiveleScreenplay
- Christopher WilkinsonScreenplay
- Robert RichardsonDirector of Photography
- John WilliamsOriginal Music Composer
- Brian BerdanEditor
- Hank CorwinEditor
- Oliver StoneProducer
- Clayton TownsendProducer
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