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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
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
Questions about interpretation
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