Nixon (1995)

Oliver Stone treats Watergate as the end point of a whole life of grievance, from a hard California boyhood to resignation. Anthony Hopkins neither looks nor sounds much like Nixon, and after a few minutes it stops mattering: the insecurity is unforgettable. It is the most ambitious of the Watergate dramas and the least reliable. Some historians now think its psychological reading holds up better than it seemed in 1995, but its hints at a link to the Kennedy assassination rest on innuendo. Watch it for the man, and the two Watergate series for the mechanics.