20 Movies That Prove That The 1970s Was The Best Decade For Film

3. All The President's Men

'At times it looked like it might cost them their jobs, their reputations, and maybe even their lives.' The paranoid political thriller was a staple of 1970s cinema. Hey, why not? With Vietnam, political assassinations and Watergate happening around them Americans had a right to be paranoid. All The President's Men is the true story of two journalists investigating the Watergate scandal and the cover-ups they encounter and missing pieces they try to solve. It was directed by Alan J. Pakula, forming part of his informal 'paranoia' trilogy of seventies films along with Klute and The Parallax View (both of which are also worth your time). Much care was taken to remain as authentic as possible to the real-life story and the production reproduced everything to replicate a real newsroom at great expense. Nothing was allowed in the script unless it had been verified by someone in-the-know. All The President's Men features one of many great 1970's Dustin Hoffman performances. Robert Redford isn't half bad, either.