Film 40 - All the President's Men

If Ace in the Hole was an exposure of the very worst in journalism, All the President's Men was a celebration of all the very best.

Woodward and Bernstein's investigation may have been one of the finest works of investigative journalism of all time, and the two hours plus of this film seems to just scratch the surface of the monumental effort that must have been put in by the two reporters. Still, it was a marvellous piece of entertaining cinema, and told expertly the story of the first part of the investigation, the hard work before the conspiracy began to unravel.

It could almost be a documentary such was its commitment to the truth and reality of the discovering of the story, but unlike some documentaries it was constantly engaging, one of the films that you simply can't look away from, can't take your eyes or mind away from it. Simply brilliant.