At once a taut, deeply engrossing political thriller and one of the most fascinating films ever made about the inner workings of the press, Alan J. Pakula’s All the President’s Men plays as part of our Wayback Wednesday series, celebrating the cinema of 1976.

Academy-Award winners Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star in this true story as Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. When they cover a seemingly routine story of a break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington’s Watergate office building, their reportage and subse­quent revelations move Congress to force the President of the United States to resign.