As a younger guy, my favorite part of this movie is seeing what an office looked like in the 70s, so cool. Paper everywhere, typewriter noise, phones ringing and cigarette smoke and the fact that you ring a business phone number and a real person answers immediately (as opposed to an automated voice menu). Such a different time.
I remember those old business phones with the lighted buttons at the bottom for multiple lines. You could put someone on hold on line 1, switch to a conversation on line 2, and switch back to line 1 so easily.
That’s how it was in the early 70s, including the rotary dial phones and the cigarettes and long hair. Very different time. We had landed on the moon for the first time just three years earlier, Vietnam was winding down, music was great. Not everything in the 70s was great, of course.
I love the tactility of everything - the paper cards on the books, the pencil and paper, the typewriters, the red pen, the notebooks......IMO, that is so much better than computers. Felt like knowledge is earned when you have to sift through paper and write stuff down with pen/pencil Man, I love this movie so much.
This film came out when I was a college freshman. I decided to major in photojournalism about the same time. In the fall of 1976 I saw All the President’s Men for the first time in my crowded J-103 class. Everyone wanted to be Woodward and Bernstein. I’ll never forget watching it. I had a thirty year career in newspapers. Unfortunate that my career is dead, and so are newspapers.
@@Tommy1977777 The internet killed newspapers. I say that having spent the last eight years of my career managing a website. Worst was the loss of big cash cow classified advertising which went to other sources. And retail advertisers who used to depend upon newspapers to get their message out could do it online. Newspapers also made the big mistake of giving away their news content on their own websites. They got their readers accustomed to getting the news for free. Once they realized their mistake and started putting up paywalls it was too late, the public didn’t want to pay. Also, so many people don’t read anymore. Their attention spans are so short that reading news stories has no appeal. That’s why we have such an ignorant, unsophisticated public these days.
Winston's job in "1984" was to go to the records and change the past to match the current narrative. A point is made to highlight a time when he held the truth in his hand and lingered with it for a moment before letting it be vacuumed into the incinerator. Soon, we won't have to worry about such insubordination. There will be no physical proof. It will merely be changed or wiped from devices that you no longer own anymore. I was involved with both mediums, I can see it happening. I even mention it to others. No one has the will to care and certainly not the will to make the kind of noise made by Woodward and Bernstein. I'd be surprised to learn that you can see this.
Robards was a great actor, whether on. stage, the big screen or television, This is one of his best film performances, and , apart from Bradlee himself, no one, IMHO, ever played him better.
One of these guy's had a college education, one of these guy's did not. The non educated guy acts completely from instinct. It's like he can smell it. He knows something isn't right and he just follows it. The other guy has this formal magnetism that is just electrifying to experience. It's such an amazing example of how these two total opposites can balance each other to the benefit of everyone. And Robards pushing them to be and do better than what they're doing. This is such a beautiful film.
In the film, I always had the feeling Robards saw himself in Woodward and Bernstein and that maybe he wished he were a younger man and working as a reporter alongside them. He knew they were onto something huge.
The acting in this movie is so naturally and casually great. Even just the scene on the patio between Hoffman and the assistant feels so real, as if it was the real moment being recorded unknowingly.
"I don't remember getting any mater- I DO remember getting material for somebody, but it wasn't Mister hunt." "Oh, the truth is I don't know any- Mister Hunt." *big pause* "Er". This is exactly how people react when you're asking them questions, as a reporter, they don't want to answer. And from the Assistant's brilliant reading alone, we can pretty much see her Supervisor standing over her, telling her what to say, then correcting her when she still doesn't say the right thing - like how she goes from not getting anything for Hunt, to not knowing him at all. Utterly brilliant.
What makes it even better is when it is at the highest point, it slowly rocks back and forth, making the rotunda look like a cog in a clock mechanism, slowly ticking away time.
A great example of 1) how difficult and painstaking real reporting was back in the early 70s, and 2) a reminder that a paper trail is still the best way to keep records of everything. Digital stuff is easy as hell, but also easy to delete. Paper and a scribbled quote is (almost) forever.
Great seventies picture. One of the all time great journalism flicks. William Goldman deserved his Oscar for best adapted screenplay. Also winning for best sound and best supporting actor for Jason Robards.
It doesn't matter that you know the entire story of the Watergate break in. The movie is so well made that it simply doesn't matter. Tight editing and stunning acting across the board just get wrapped up in this mystery like it just happened. A true classic!
@@gingerhiser7312We Americans, all deserve this type of reporting. Don't you agree? Why bring up cost right now; I don't think the commenter was meaning price at all. But we do deserve that. It went downhill just as our society's morals got worse. I'm Gen X, idk about you two. But I feel so bad for the younger generations today. My son is 25. And sadly he never knew a society's when we all acted like we did after 9/11.The big difference was, we all acted much better in those days, we didn't need a 9/11 to make us kinder again. God please heal and bless America! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Wow. That one comment really got me a thinking here. Yes, we did pay well for excellent reporting back then. We paid for great newspapers, articles, authors & books too. ❤
@@gingerhiser7312 The truth should always be free. Today it's all lies, regardless if it's free or not. And the democrat media are all reporting the news using the same words. That's collusion. Something is very wrong with that.
I got an "office" job in 1989, where we wrote letters by hand and gave them to a staff of secretaries using type writers, when we got the letter back again we had to check for typing errors etc, so there could be several rounds, one secretary had a type writer with the possibility to correct, but only 5 letters, so I had to sit and pay attention while she wrote, I think it was early 90'ties, 1992, or 1993, we got computers and electronic mail, (lotus notes) and one of the engineers totally refused to communicate via email, and if he got a little too many emails he simply deleted them all, one day he declared to the whole office, "if anyone wanted to come in contact with him, they had to write a letter!" Me, as a relatively young man then was just sitting and looking at him, still remember
My father worked for NACA (forerunner of NASA) in 1947. He got in trouble once for typing up something he needed in a hurry. Engineers didn't type, secretaries did the typing.
There was a new generation of filmmakers in the 1970s willing to push the boundaries of the film medium. Before then, Hollywood movies were purely about entertainment and didn’t like to tackle difficult subjects because they thought that audiences wouldn’t accept that. But audiences were changing. There are many films from that era that are now considered classics, perhaps too many to mention.
Wasn’t E Howard Hunt in Dallas the day President Kennedy was killed. Something he denied when he was a guest on Larry Kings radio show on the Mutual Network. Two great character actors Jason Robards and Jack Warden. Jack played Juror # 7 in Sidney Lumets first film 12 Angry Men and Paul Newman s law partner in Lumets 1982 film The Verdict.
he was one of the three "tramps" taken into custody.....there are photos of them and it is said that he is the one making faces , puffing out his cheeks to try to disguise himself.....
@@alpha-omega2362 This is from the "well, he looked a bit like him" school of conspiracy theories. The 3 tramps were, in fact, according to their arrest records, Gus W. Abrams, Harold Doyle, and John Forrester Gedney.
Such a fantastic film! The first time I saw it was in a high school history class and I’m sad to say, I thought it was extremely boring back then. After seeing it as an adult though, I was blown away!
"All the President's Men" was a big deal back when truth mattered in American politics and culture. Nowadays, there's no chance the White House Press Secretary apologizes to a newspaper ("mistakes were made"). Hugh Sloan wouldn't have been compelled to tell the truth because faith has become so corrupted by politics. It would just be 24/7/365 war, because the noise is more useful and profitable than the truth.
Love the old newsroom atmosphere. It was full of energy and excitement back then. Nowadays they're so sterile (and empty). It was a time when you HAD TO CHECK AND CONFIRM your sources before any creditable news operation would run with a story. Robarts was great playing the tough editor role as Bradlee. Wonderful movie.
Movies like this remind me of my job as a tax lawyer. There are some lying POS's in the world, most of whom seemed to be my clients (or, if I was lucky, the opponents of my clients). You develop a sixth sense for when people are hiding something - like a nervousness over some subject matters and not others. You also take contemporaneous notes of everything you say and do.
Don't you think that you would have said the same thing in the 1970's? Woodward and Bernstein came under a lot of criticism and were accused of lying by the White House.
@@spuwho Yes, I'm sure the facebook memes you get your information from are well sourced and completely documented. By the way, did JFK ever come back like you expected? LOL it really is funny to see you people so fervent in your disinformation. Always good for a laugh.
That look at the end said this matter is closed. Two reporters along with several others broke the story and changed the course of American history essentially by just reporting the facts.
Just watched the film here in London on the cinema It was a full house it's a very cinematic movie The office scenes were as real as it gets and injects you into the Washington's posts journalistic working atmosphere of the 1970s, When Roberts their boss calls them out ! You can feel, taste & FEAR The embarrassment of the other office staff.
@@KevinBalch-dt8ot Hey, good point! I'm not being defensive when I say at least those were individuals with their own reps on the line. Now it's corporations with diffused responsibility and 90% of news in this country comes from only 6 mega-corps..
I’m grateful I was born just early enough to experience the real, deep journalism of newspapers. I worked in tv and newspaper; paper stories contained 10 times the information than the 3-5 sentence tv news stories, which are mostly fluff and punny.
The movie i felt had atmosphere. Liked it, loved in fact, Woodward and Bernstine were my heroes, but heros die and to find out the truth was to see how the wool was pulled over our eyes. 😢
It was Edward "Teddy" Kennedy Hund was looking into. The two older brothers were no thread whatsoever, being dead. Although Hunt did forge diplomatic cables to implicate JFK in the assassinations of the South Vietnamese President and his Chief of Secret Police brother.
@@taze317 There was NO criminal investigation ongoing at the time, and even if there had been, checking books out of the library is not a crime, so no, the cops would have told them to take a hike.
When Hoffman's character protests about the story being relegated "somewhere inside", I love how Robard's character just casually glances at him to shut him down. No words- just a look. I'd hate to be a newspaper editor- tough job, but definitely necessary.
@@Conn30MtenorWe’ve become a rather dull group of people, haven’t we? We’re more concerned about a celebrity stubbing their toe instead of real issues. No truth out there anymore…just keep the public happy with “feel good” stories…
0:01 I think they’re at the Rooftop Terrace at the Kennedy Center. Planes to/from National Airport go right by there, following the Potomac River. Surprised they left in the scene where the plane drowns her out. It looks like it flustered them and threw off their timing; maybe they thought the scene would be reshot.
We need to make this story required reading in schools, those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. The Truth is someone was bound to try this again sooner or later. The Power Brokers think they run the world
In 1984, I was taking a journalism class in a mid-west junior college and the professor put up a picture of two guys on the slide show. He asked the class to name them. I had an idea who they were (actual shot of Woodward & Bernstein) but the rest of the American students didn't. We were only about 10 or 11 years from the actual Watergate scandal and yet it was quickly forgotten by the new generation (or they didn't seem to care). And it was later revealed that none had seen All The President's Men or read the book...
The one thing this clip showed was that journalism required a lot of footwork and manual research. It still does today, but the habit (a bad one) is to print crap or incomplete junk and force a denial and keep doing it until they wear out. Ben Bradlee was forcing his reporters to work harder, something editors today don't, "it's too hard and takes too long" they say. It took months for these 2 to get the lowdown, today if we can't figure it out in a day or two, it is considered stale.
The Library of Congress is top 3 most beautiful interiors in DC (including swanky hotels). The Main reading room (the Jefferson reading room?) was open to the public - but not afte 9-11. Now you need apply. As a high school kid mid-70s, I would use it for special homework. But it was not efficient - no open shelves. you looked up books in card catalogs, wrote out a request slip with your seat number, and then waited 8-20 minutes for requested book(s) to be delivered.
I think the first scene here is filmed on the outside upper balcony of the Kennedy Center. Airplanes departing or landing at National airport (DCA) pass right by there along the river, so the jet noise, which may seem strange for such a scene, is actually accurate.
Ben was right. They were expecting the say so of secretaries, assistants for a front page published story at the Post would be less than interesting to a reader.
I was 12 years old and went to see this movie . I was the only kid my age there . I wanted to know what happened because every day we got flooded with rumors and a lot of political blah blah blah about Watergate . This movie explains of how Nixon was involved and all of his conspiring crooks .
I would have thought that a librarian has a duty of confidentiality regarding members of the library and the books they choose to take out. That was the attitude taken by many librarians after 9/11 when Bush/Cheney and The Patriot Act were demanding that these records were handed over to the American government.
@@vanessac1721 So???????? I would have thought that the librarian's duty of confidentiality was the same in all eras: unchanging like The American Constitution.
@@kierangallagher315 1. The American Constitution has changed lots - there's amendments. 2. The White House library is a public office; like all WH transactions, I expect most of what goes on there is open to scrutiny. 3. Why the ???????? Are you trying to sound unhinged?
American movie .....always reflecting the psychical basics of the US-society.....there is no other field you can learn more about US-society than movies
I know they had to mash up some things for time constraints. The opening scene here doesn't ring credible because librarians wouldn't give out the titles of books an individual checks out. That's Library Science 101. But I love this movie nevertheless.
One of the best movies ever. Never get tired of watching it.
Unfortunately, liberals have absolutely no self-awareness and never reflect over how morality apply to everyone, and not only those they do not like
Same - probably my favorite movie.
Not one explosion or chase scene and yet, this may be the best superhero movie ever. 🤗
Same!!!!!
I watch it, and others, every June . . . along w/reading WaPo articles & ATPM.
As a younger guy, my favorite part of this movie is seeing what an office looked like in the 70s, so cool. Paper everywhere, typewriter noise, phones ringing and cigarette smoke and the fact that you ring a business phone number and a real person answers immediately (as opposed to an automated voice menu). Such a different time.
I miss those days .
I still prefer a manual typewriter LOL
I remember those old business phones with the lighted buttons at the bottom for multiple lines. You could put someone on hold on line 1, switch to a conversation on line 2, and switch back to line 1 so easily.
I love that part of the movie. Things were kind of still like this in the late 80's when I was growing up going to my dad's real estate office.
That’s how it was in the early 70s, including the rotary dial phones and the cigarettes and long hair. Very different time. We had landed on the moon for the first time just three years earlier, Vietnam was winding down, music was great. Not everything in the 70s was great, of course.
I love the tactility of everything - the paper cards on the books, the pencil and paper, the typewriters, the red pen, the notebooks......IMO, that is so much better than computers. Felt like knowledge is earned when you have to sift through paper and write stuff down with pen/pencil
Man, I love this movie so much.
I taught high school journalism for 18 years. The first two three days of class every semester were devoted to watching this movie.
FYI check out Robert Caro's "Working."
This film came out when I was a college freshman. I decided to major in photojournalism about the same time. In the fall of 1976 I saw All the President’s Men for the first time in my crowded J-103 class. Everyone wanted to be Woodward and Bernstein. I’ll never forget watching it. I had a thirty year career in newspapers. Unfortunate that my career is dead, and so are newspapers.
Who and what killed it? @@Nicksonian
@@Tommy1977777 The internet killed newspapers. I say that having spent the last eight years of my career managing a website. Worst was the loss of big cash cow classified advertising which went to other sources. And retail advertisers who used to depend upon newspapers to get their message out could do it online. Newspapers also made the big mistake of giving away their news content on their own websites. They got their readers accustomed to getting the news for free. Once they realized their mistake and started putting up paywalls it was too late, the public didn’t want to pay. Also, so many people don’t read anymore. Their attention spans are so short that reading news stories has no appeal. That’s why we have such an ignorant, unsophisticated public these days.
Winston's job in "1984" was to go to the records and change the past to match the current narrative. A point is made to highlight a time when he held the truth in his hand and lingered with it for a moment before letting it be vacuumed into the incinerator.
Soon, we won't have to worry about such insubordination. There will be no physical proof. It will merely be changed or wiped from devices that you no longer own anymore. I was involved with both mediums, I can see it happening. I even mention it to others. No one has the will to care and certainly not the will to make the kind of noise made by Woodward and Bernstein. I'd be surprised to learn that you can see this.
As good as Redford and Hoffman were in these roles, Robards was electric.
Also outstanding cinematography and musical score.
Robards was a great actor, whether on. stage, the big screen or television, This is one of his best film performances, and , apart from Bradlee himself, no one, IMHO, ever played him better.
Pure acting legend. Little is more.
Robards did win the Best Supporting Actor this role
@@alexius23 , indeed he did! And the following year he won it again for playing Dashiell Hammett in "Julia".
One of these guy's had a college education, one of these guy's did not. The non educated guy acts completely from instinct. It's like he can smell it. He knows something isn't right and he just follows it. The other guy has this formal magnetism that is just electrifying to experience. It's such an amazing example of how these two total opposites can balance each other to the benefit of everyone. And Robards pushing them to be and do better than what they're doing. This is such a beautiful film.
In the film, I always had the feeling Robards saw himself in Woodward and Bernstein and that maybe he wished he were a younger man and working as a reporter alongside them. He knew they were onto something huge.
The acting in this movie is so naturally and casually great. Even just the scene on the patio between Hoffman and the assistant feels so real, as if it was the real moment being recorded unknowingly.
It felt like there was a bit of ad libbing going on, which added to the realism.
I was wondering if the plane going overhead was planned. Seemed like it wasn’t. 🤗
"I don't remember getting any mater- I DO remember getting material for somebody, but it wasn't Mister hunt."
"Oh, the truth is I don't know any- Mister Hunt." *big pause* "Er".
This is exactly how people react when you're asking them questions, as a reporter, they don't want to answer. And from the Assistant's brilliant reading alone, we can pretty much see her Supervisor standing over her, telling her what to say, then correcting her when she still doesn't say the right thing - like how she goes from not getting anything for Hunt, to not knowing him at all.
Utterly brilliant.
The camera withdrawing up the rotunda is a great shot as Bob and Carl go through the library cards
A great shot that captures the monumental nature of the quest that they are tasked with and the mystery that they are trying to solve.
i love the 70s mysterious music in that scene : )
The cinematography was from the great Gordon Willis.
What makes it even better is when it is at the highest point, it slowly rocks back and forth, making the rotunda look like a cog in a clock mechanism, slowly ticking away time.
A great example of 1) how difficult and painstaking real reporting was back in the early 70s, and 2) a reminder that a paper trail is still the best way to keep records of everything. Digital stuff is easy as hell, but also easy to delete. Paper and a scribbled quote is (almost) forever.
Great seventies picture. One of the all time great journalism flicks. William Goldman deserved his Oscar for best adapted screenplay. Also winning for best sound and best supporting actor for Jason Robards.
1:56 'The truth is...' walkback by the librarian was chilling.
Every sentence beginning 'The truth is...' was a lie.
Great scriptwriting.
It doesn't matter that you know the entire story of the Watergate break in. The movie is so well made that it simply doesn't matter. Tight editing and stunning acting across the board just get wrapped up in this mystery like it just happened.
A true classic!
The kind of responsible reporting we need today.
The very opposite of yellow journalism
Are you willing pay for it or do you want your news for free from the internet?
@@gingerhiser7312We Americans, all deserve this type of reporting. Don't you agree? Why bring up cost right now; I don't think the commenter was meaning price at all. But we do deserve that. It went downhill just as our society's morals got worse. I'm Gen X, idk about you two. But I feel so bad for the younger generations today. My son is 25. And sadly he never knew a society's when we all acted like we did after 9/11.The big difference was, we all acted much better in those days, we didn't need a 9/11 to make us kinder again. God please heal and bless America! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Wow. That one comment really got me a thinking here. Yes, we did pay well for excellent reporting back then. We paid for great newspapers, articles, authors & books too. ❤
@@gingerhiser7312 The truth should always be free. Today it's all lies, regardless if it's free or not. And the democrat media are all reporting the news using the same words. That's collusion. Something is very wrong with that.
wonderful stone-age equipment in office. Mechanical typewriters, big landline phones, paper files...
I kinda miss 1970ies
I worked for a county attorney ten years ago and as of then all these things were still intact and in use with the addition of PCs
I got an "office" job in 1989, where we wrote letters by hand and gave them to a staff of secretaries using type writers, when we got the letter back again we had to check for typing errors etc, so there could be several rounds, one secretary had a type writer with the possibility to correct, but only 5 letters, so I had to sit and pay attention while she wrote, I think it was early 90'ties, 1992, or 1993, we got computers and electronic mail, (lotus notes) and one of the engineers totally refused to communicate via email, and if he got a little too many emails he simply deleted them all, one day he declared to the whole office, "if anyone wanted to come in contact with him, they had to write a letter!"
Me, as a relatively young man then was just sitting and looking at him, still remember
My father worked for NACA (forerunner of NASA) in 1947. He got in trouble once for typing up something he needed in a hurry. Engineers didn't type, secretaries did the typing.
This is basically what police work is dogged determination and pursuit of evidence, but somehow this is more thrilling to watch than any CSI ever was
The OG CSI was pretty awesome in the first few seasons, and started to get weak as the years went on.
Produced by Robert Redford. directed by the genius Alan J. Pakula. The seventies has to be the golden age of American cinema.
Indeed it is.
There was a new generation of filmmakers in the 1970s willing to push the boundaries of the film medium. Before then, Hollywood movies were purely about entertainment and didn’t like to tackle difficult subjects because they thought that audiences wouldn’t accept that. But audiences were changing. There are many films from that era that are now considered classics, perhaps too many to mention.
Wasn’t E Howard Hunt in Dallas the day President Kennedy was killed. Something he denied when he was a guest on Larry Kings radio show on the Mutual Network. Two great character actors Jason Robards and Jack Warden. Jack played Juror # 7 in Sidney Lumets first film 12 Angry Men and Paul Newman s law partner in Lumets 1982 film The Verdict.
Howard Hunt admitted on his death bed being part of the JFK assassination and that LBJ was the kingpin
he was one of the three "tramps" taken into custody.....there are photos of them and it is said that he is the one making faces , puffing out his cheeks to try to disguise himself.....
@@alpha-omega2362 This is from the "well, he looked a bit like him" school of conspiracy theories.
The 3 tramps were, in fact, according to their arrest records, Gus W. Abrams, Harold Doyle, and John Forrester Gedney.
@@alpha-omega2362 not true
@@lostinamerica2867 ok, thanks for your input.
Such a fantastic film! The first time I saw it was in a high school history class and I’m sad to say, I thought it was extremely boring back then. After seeing it as an adult though, I was blown away!
I think you have to be a grownup to fully appreciate it.
"I DON'T MIND WHAT YOU DID. I MIND THE WAY YOU DID IT." That sums the whole thing up in two sentences.
Amazing film. It also reveals how far we have fallen in 50 yrs.
The Post is as good today as it was back then.
Of course there are other "news" outlets that arent, but that's for the reader to decide.
@@edwardgiovannelli5191 Did the WaPo get sued for libel back then too? Settle out of court?
"All the President's Men" was a big deal back when truth mattered in American politics and culture. Nowadays, there's no chance the White House Press Secretary apologizes to a newspaper ("mistakes were made"). Hugh Sloan wouldn't have been compelled to tell the truth because faith has become so corrupted by politics. It would just be 24/7/365 war, because the noise is more useful and profitable than the truth.
Jason Robards is such a great actor. He pulls this off as if he is the real Ben Bradley
He became the character.
After the release, Ben Bradley started acting like Robards portrayed him
@@mikegilbert2500 Really? That is very cool if true!
I always said this scene showed peak 1970s bullpen journalism. Still a reason we need real journalists..
Love the old newsroom atmosphere. It was full of energy and excitement back then. Nowadays they're so sterile (and empty). It was a time when you HAD TO CHECK AND CONFIRM your sources before any creditable news operation would run with a story. Robarts was great playing the tough editor role as Bradlee. Wonderful movie.
And this is what happens when they don't. ruclips.net/video/L1JYHNX8pdo/видео.html
Clacking typewriters and smoking, that was the 1970's newsroom alright.
And the unique aroma of overcooked coffee sludge.
Movies like this remind me of my job as a tax lawyer. There are some lying POS's in the world, most of whom seemed to be my clients (or, if I was lucky, the opponents of my clients). You develop a sixth sense for when people are hiding something - like a nervousness over some subject matters and not others. You also take contemporaneous notes of everything you say and do.
E. Howard Hunt, G. Gordon Liddy, H.R. Haldemann. Never trust anybody that has initials for their first name.
Never trust a man who parts his hair in the middle or his name on the left.
And Lee as a first or middle name.
J. Edgar Hoover
Never trust anyone named Rob Steele.
JD Vance
I went out and got a corduroy suit!!😂
I'll pray for you.
I SALUTE YOU!
Corduroy was big in those days.
Welcome to the club.
4 Really Good actors in one scene.
Today's Washington Post bears no resemblance to the newspaper being depicted in this film.
Now, commonly referred to as The Washington Compost.
Don't you think that you would have said the same thing in the 1970's? Woodward and Bernstein came under a lot of criticism and were accused of lying by the White House.
Thank Jeff Bezos.
"JOURNALISM" today is pretty much crap - just opinion and innuendo - the days of Cronkite are sadly long ago.
It’s a lot easier to fire off a RUclips comment than go out and do actual investigative reporting, isn’t it?
That was when journalists had to given proof and validation for what they said and wrote. Long time ago.
Do you read the WaPo? I believe they still live by the same standards.
@@edwardgiovannelli5191 They sure do. Right-wingers complain about anonymous sources. Woodward's White House contact was used as an anonymous source.
@@edwardgiovannelli5191 LOL!
@@spuwho Yes, I'm sure the facebook memes you get your information from are well sourced and completely documented.
By the way, did JFK ever come back like you expected?
LOL it really is funny to see you people so fervent in your disinformation. Always good for a laugh.
I love when he pulls out the red pen. The mark of the editor!
That look at the end said this matter is closed. Two reporters along with several others broke the story and changed the course of American history essentially by just reporting the facts.
Um dos melhores filmes sobre jornalismo que já assisti.
Jason Robards is amazing
It's been more than 40 years that newsrooms were filled with the sound of typewriters
Yeah ...no printer needed...one process
Have not seen this movie in a long time. Sure wish somebody would run this classic!
The days of honest Journalism
Just watched the film here in London on the cinema It was a full house it's a very cinematic movie The office scenes were as real as it gets and injects you into the Washington's posts journalistic working atmosphere of the 1970s, When Roberts their boss calls them out ! You can feel, taste & FEAR The embarrassment of the other office staff.
I love this movie and I love watching the way they dug out the truth. Remarkable!
Great cinematography
Librarians don’t give out info about patrons checkouts. They respect privacy. Even in 1973.
Remember when newspapers weren't owned by oligarchs and once pursued justice?
No. They were always owned by oligarchs. Ever hear of Hearst, Pulitzer, Graham?
@@KevinBalch-dt8ot Hey, good point! I'm not being defensive when I say at least those were individuals with their own reps on the line. Now it's corporations with diffused responsibility and 90% of news in this country comes from only 6 mega-corps..
Ben Bradlee was wired in to the CIA and let them use WaPo as a propaganda outlet. He was hardly an objective pursurer of justice.
No
If you actually knew anything about the history of Newspapers or Mass Media, no.
Thankfully I have this on DVD. Another great movie that came out the same year this did was "Network". Thank you.
I'll go you one better... I have it on LaserDisk! (and it still works)
I’m grateful I was born just early enough to experience the real, deep journalism of newspapers. I worked in tv and newspaper; paper stories contained 10 times the information than the 3-5 sentence tv news stories, which are mostly fluff and punny.
The movie i felt had atmosphere. Liked it, loved in fact, Woodward and Bernstine were my heroes, but heros die and to find out the truth was to see how the wool was pulled over our eyes. 😢
Howard Hunt was in Dealey Plaza one certain November....
What a great movie. One of my favorites.
They should have gone to the library and found every book about JFK. Take them to the police and see if Hunts fingerprints were on any of them.
It was Edward "Teddy" Kennedy Hund was looking into. The two older brothers were no thread whatsoever, being dead. Although Hunt did forge diplomatic cables to implicate JFK in the assassinations of the South Vietnamese President and his Chief of Secret Police brother.
Like the police are going to do that if no crime has been committed.
@@j.b.delaney3444 It has happened many times. Hunt was a person of interest.
Then again, who gives AF?
@@taze317 There was NO criminal investigation ongoing at the time, and even if there had been, checking books out of the library is not a crime, so no, the cops would have told them to take a hike.
@@j.b.delaney3444 I don't care what you think, Hunt was up to something. Did you even watch the video?
this movie grabs u from the beginning. great telling of a true story
This is by far the best detectives film ever made
When Hoffman's character protests about the story being relegated "somewhere inside", I love how Robard's character just casually glances at him to shut him down. No words- just a look. I'd hate to be a newspaper editor- tough job, but definitely necessary.
back when the press cared about the American people and some truth
Yeah, then Fox News showed up and down the gurgler it went.
@@ptgigg They all went willingly - where the money is.
@@ptgigg Reagan had a lot do with that. He had the "fair and balanced" law repealed.
and when Americans were reasonably intelligent and educated and when they read the newspapers.
@@Conn30MtenorWe’ve become a rather dull group of people, haven’t we? We’re more concerned about a celebrity stubbing their toe instead of real issues. No truth out there anymore…just keep the public happy with “feel good” stories…
The Library of Congress Shot & Music . Classic Cinema .
Love this film.
0:01 I think they’re at the Rooftop Terrace at the Kennedy Center. Planes to/from National Airport go right by there, following the Potomac River. Surprised they left in the scene where the plane drowns her out. It looks like it flustered them and threw off their timing; maybe they thought the scene would be reshot.
The conversations in this movie are very realistic so maybe they kept it that way on purpose
2 of our very best, Redford and Hoffman.
Wow, they were scrambling trying to put a story together. Leads that went nowhere.
As Deep Throat said: Follow the money.
Still relevant advice today. Maybe more so.
@@davidwalter2002 As we learn that trump took $10 million from the Egyptians...
When the Washington Post was a great newspaper
It still is.
Robards just looks like he runs a newspaper
In Britain no-one would give information like that to anybody; it just isn't public.
"You might think that; I couldn't possibly say."
In the 70s?
When you had to hoof it to get the story and verify facts vs today it's the journalist opinion and wishy-washy facts
This movie is still relevant today. Also, I understand why it won the 1976 Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Sound.
We need to make this story required reading in schools, those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. The Truth is someone was bound to try this again sooner or later. The Power Brokers think they run the world
In 1984, I was taking a journalism class in a mid-west junior college and the professor put up a picture of two guys on the slide show. He asked the class to name them. I had an idea who they were (actual shot of Woodward & Bernstein) but the rest of the American students didn't. We were only about 10 or 11 years from the actual Watergate scandal and yet it was quickly forgotten by the new generation (or they didn't seem to care). And it was later revealed that none had seen All The President's Men or read the book...
Interesting to watch it's namesake predecessor, "All the King's Men."
...Great film!!!
Good movie 🍿 I’d watch it again 😊
This is a favorite scene in the LOC
If you haven't seen it, Three Days of the Condor.
Sadly, we're in a far worse situation with Trump than we ever were with Nixon.
Nixon took us off the Gold standard made dollar worthless what about dim light biden
Trump isn’t the president man
Lol
@@navigatorofthevalley ....keep those thumbs rotated and send more legal fees genius......
You spelled Biden wrong.
The one thing this clip showed was that journalism required a lot of footwork and manual research. It still does today, but the habit (a bad one) is to print crap or incomplete junk and force a denial and keep doing it until they wear out. Ben Bradlee was forcing his reporters to work harder, something editors today don't, "it's too hard and takes too long" they say. It took months for these 2 to get the lowdown, today if we can't figure it out in a day or two, it is considered stale.
The Library of Congress is top 3 most beautiful interiors in DC (including swanky hotels). The Main reading room (the Jefferson reading room?) was open to the public - but not afte 9-11. Now you need apply. As a high school kid mid-70s, I would use it for special homework. But it was not efficient - no open shelves. you looked up books in card catalogs, wrote out a request slip with your seat number, and then waited 8-20 minutes for requested book(s) to be delivered.
In 15 years we can watch a similar movie about Project 2025.
Omg😢 I pray we never have to live through that so called "Project" esp re him wanting the military all over!!! Straight up Fascism!
HELL NO!!
For God's sake, let's hope so.
Dustin is probably 1 of best actors ever ...watch his films 🎥 side, by side ...freaky talent 🎈 🎰
I think the first scene here is filmed on the outside upper balcony of the Kennedy Center. Airplanes departing or landing at National airport (DCA) pass right by there along the river, so the jet noise, which may seem strange for such a scene, is actually accurate.
A coup without the assignation.
Ben was right. They were expecting the say so of secretaries, assistants for a front page published story at the Post would be less than interesting to a reader.
Shouldn't the librarian have said "sorry sir but I cannot disclose that information?" I'm sure that's what would happen today.
I was 12 years old and went to see this movie . I was the only kid my age there . I wanted to know what happened because every day we got flooded with rumors and a lot of political blah blah blah about Watergate . This movie explains of how Nixon was involved and all of his conspiring crooks .
One of the Best movies ever made
Back when the WaPo was a real paper!
It still is
0:01 She is one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. How didn’t she become a star? I don’t even think she’s credited for this scene
Jason Robards! What a character!
Those were the good ol' days... when facts mattered.
Back when journalists actually did journalism
yeah, that girls
acting was so
good it seemed
like she was just
talking. amazing.
I would have thought that a librarian has a duty of confidentiality regarding members of the library and the books they choose to take out. That was the attitude taken by many librarians after 9/11 when Bush/Cheney and The Patriot Act were demanding that these records were handed over to the American government.
It was the 70s.
@@vanessac1721 So???????? I would have thought that the librarian's duty of confidentiality was the same in all eras: unchanging like The American Constitution.
@@kierangallagher315 1. The American Constitution has changed lots - there's amendments.
2. The White House library is a public office; like all WH transactions, I expect most of what goes on there is open to scrutiny.
3. Why the ???????? Are you trying to sound unhinged?
Whew she was beautiful
Who is the girl Bernstein is talking to?
This film feels like ancient history now. Who can even remember the time when journalism was a noble profession, even a calling?
Bob, and Gregory Peck similar ...both, can carry a film ...appear noble, classy, on screen
United States:The power of democracy and free press¡¡
When men think they’re above the law
Why didn’t it start at the beginning?
The way a newsroom should be run.
Democracy dies in darkness, people…..
"get some harder information next time"...that quote sure didn't age well.
Robards was a lot like John Malkovich.
He had great talent just not leading man looks.
American movie .....always reflecting the psychical basics of the US-society.....there is no other field you can learn more about US-society than movies
I know they had to mash up some things for time constraints. The opening scene here doesn't ring credible because librarians wouldn't give out the titles of books an individual checks out. That's Library Science 101. But I love this movie nevertheless.