Richard Nixon films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 22 films on Boxlist

Known for All the President's Men, 13th and The Fog of War.

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Starring Richard Nixon

All the President's Men
1976 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Richard Nixon to resign from his post.
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13th
2016 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
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The Fog of War
2003 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from working as a WWII whiz-kid military officer, to being the Ford Motor Company's president...
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Apollo 13: Survival
2024 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and the struggle to bring its astronauts safely home.
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Attica
2021 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Follows the largest prison uprising in US history, conducting dozens of new interviews with inmates, journalists, and other witnesses.
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1975 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a...
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The Apprentice
2024 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the...
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Get Me Roger Stone
2017 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
From his days of testifying at the Watergate hearings to advising recent presidential candidate Donald Trump, Roger Stone has long offended people on both sides of the political fence as a force in conservative America. Outspoken author...
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Da 5 Bloods
2020 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting...
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The Martha Mitchell Effect
2022 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
She was once as famous as Jackie O—and then she tried to take down a President. Martha Mitchell was the unlikeliest of whistleblowers: a Republican wife who was discredited by Nixon to keep her quiet. Until now.
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Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator
2019 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
The spectacular rise and scandalous fall of hot-yoga evangelist Bikram Choudhury is chronicled through archival footage and extensive insider interviews.
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This Film Is Not Yet Rated
2006 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates films, revealing the organization's underhanded efforts to control culture. Dick questions...
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
2022 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A man narrates stories of his life as a 10-year-old boy in 1969 Houston, weaving tales of nostalgia with a fantastical account of a journey to the moon.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
2019 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, her 10-billion-dollar company dissolved. The...
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Nixon
1995 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
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...
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Trumbo
2015 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
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Breakdown: 1975
2025 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
In 1975, as America faced social and political upheaval, filmmakers turned chaos into art.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
2019 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Sarah and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that...
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Vice
2018 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House...
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I Could Never Be Your Woman
2007 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
This movie follows a mother who falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time. Mother Nature messes with their fates.
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J. Edgar
2011 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career, and his life.
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Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
2017 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
The story of Mark Felt, who under the name "Deep Throat" helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1974.
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