Tricky Dick

Tricky Dick
TV Show · Documentary · History

Richard Nixon's life and times, from his early political career in California to the game-changing Kennedy-Nixon debates, through to his Watergate exit.

2019 · 38m

Season 1

  • Part One: The Will To Win
    EPISODE 1
    Part One: The Will To Win
    Raised by a family with modest means with a childhood beset by tragedy, Richard Nixon learns early to recognize opportunity and how to seize it. Nixon's years as a serious student give way to a promising political career.
    38 min
  • Part Two: Nixon's The One
    EPISODE 2
    Part Two: Nixon's The One
    Nixon loses one of the closest presidential elections in history to John F. Kennedy. Nixon runs for governor's seat in California. Nixon retreats from politics. Determined to shed his loser's image, he wages a calculated crusade for the presidency.
    41 min
  • Part Three: Storm Clouds
    EPISODE 3
    Part Three: Storm Clouds
    Richard Nixon enters office after navigating one of the greatest political comebacks of all time to find that his survival hinges on the promise to end the Vietnam War. The anti-war movement gains strength and the president suspects a conspiracy.
    41 min
  • Part Four: And Then You Destroy Yourself
    EPISODE 4
    Part Four: And Then You Destroy Yourself
    Shortly into Nixon's second term, the cover-up of the break-in at the DNC headquarters at the Watergate complex starts to fall apart. Yet Nixon decides to wage a battle in the press.
    36 min

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Cast & Crew

  • B‌T
    Banks Tarver
    Producer
  • K‌D
    Ken Druckerman
    Producer
  • A‌J
    Anneka Jones
    Producer
  • Mary Robertson
    Producer
  • Amy Entelis
    Producer
  • L‌F
    Lizzie Fox
    Producer

About

Tricky Dick

Documentary

Richard Nixon's life and times, from his early political career in California to the game-changing Kennedy-Nixon debates, through to his Watergate exit.

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Studio
CNN
Released
2019
Rated
PG
Region of Origin
United States
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