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====== Errors in fact ======

One scene in the movie that never happened in real life is the scene where Bernstein lures Dardis’ receptionist away with a fake phone call in order to speak to Dardis. It is said that this scene is not found in Woodward and Bernstein’s book. http://mentalfloss.com/article/78307/13-investigative-facts-about-all-presidents-men,. - Courtlyn Plunkett

Though this does not go against that accuracy of the story, many claim that Bernstein and Woodward were not ahead of this investigative train the entire time. The government and others were uncovering the trail as well.
https://www.realclearhistory.com/2013/04/26/how_true_was_039all_the_president039s_men039_4149.html

Howard Simons was the managing editor of the Washington Post during the Watergate scandal. According to the New York Times he was an aggressive and outspoken reporter and one of the people who supported Woodward and Bernstein throughout their entire story.
In the movie, Simons is shown as almost passive when dealing with the Watergate story. And his real life personality traits appear to have been given to Rosenfelt.
https://nixonscandal.wordpress.com/differences-and-similarities/differences/ -- Lindsey Sowers

====== Things the Movie got right ======

The movie used the actual names of the Watergate burglars along with Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's real names of investigative journalists who wrote about Watergate. --Caroline Collier

The scene where Bob Woodward made a phone call to Kenneth Dahlberg where Dahlberg ends the conversation saying that his neighbor's wife had been kidnapped recently had really happened. It occurred on July 27, 1972, in Minnesota a few days before Bob Woodward called Dahlberg. -Kyle Moore

The film accurately portrays Woodward’s meetings with “Deep Throat” by showing the secret meetings in a parking garage as well as placing a flag in a flower pot to signal meetings. – Courtlyn Plunkett

The film did use actual names presented in this part of history. The burglars names were all accurate. -- Lindsey Sowers

One thing I noticed about this movie is that the cinematography is kind of bland. There’s not a lot of eye-catching imagery and I think that’s because the movie is pushed along by the acting and story alone. There’s a lot of talking on the phone and images of newspaper articles but the movie is still very entertaining. The phone interviews added a lot to the movie despite only seeing one person in the conversation and hearing the other. There’s a lot of emotion in their voices that help move the story along and allow the viewer to understand the thoughts and feelings of the people who were involved in Watergate. It also shows the tumultuous process of investigative journalism. The movie does a great job keeping to the facts and presenting the story of Watergate in chronological order. –Lake Wiley

====== Questions about interpretation ======
What I am finding about this movie is that it is in general rather historically accurate given that it was based off the book by the two journalists themselves and was also created so shortly after the events taking place occurred but I wonder if this same pro of the story being written by the two men involved could also be considered a detriment at all to the movie/story's accuracy. Is their account the most accurate version of what happened or are things dramatized or changed, etc? -Erin Andrewlevich
====== The movie as a primary source of its time ======

As the Watergate scandal happened four years prior to the release of the movie, the movie is entirely focused on the investigation part of the Watergate Scandal and never shows the results other than the headlines it created. As audiences lived through the consequences of the investigation themselves, focusing on the process of the investigation was probably more important to audiences.  -Kyle Moore

The movie came out only four years after Watergate and displayed the story of Watergate very accurately. In fact, the Library of Congress selected the movie for preservation for being ‘culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant.’ The editor of the Washington Post was devoted to ensuring that the film portrayed the story accurately because he wanted to show that newspapers were ethical and honest institutions that were out to find the truth.-Lake Wiley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_President%27s_Men_(film)

All the President's Men came out in April of 1976, as the United States was deep into the Democratic Party primaries ahead of the November general election. This was the first Presidential election since Nixon had been reelected, and the first one since the Watergate scandal upended American politics. This movie serves as a good primary source for it's time because it is clearly intended for an audience deeply familiar with the scandal and aftermath, and it's release coincides with the Democrats "Washington outsider" candidate Jimmy Carter gaining traction and steam towards his eventual nomination. At one point in the film Woodward and Bernstein repeatedly state that everybody was in on what the Committee to Re-elect the President was doing, the entirety of the intelligence community. I think that reflects the general lack of trust that the entire country had at the time towards Washington institutions, the same distrust that would lead them to nominate and elect Jimmy Carter as their next president. - Sam Hartz
====== Comparing the reading to the movie ======

====== The "So, what?" question ======

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