Our Nixon
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Theatrical release poster.
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| Directed by | Penny Lane |
| Produced by | Brian L. Frye Penny Lane Dan Cogan Jenny Raskin Louis Venezia Rebecca Ritchie Brower |
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Richard Nixon H.R. Haldeman John Ehrlichman Dwight Chapin Henry Kissinger Ron Ziegler Larry Higby |
| Music by | Hrishikesh Hirway |
| Cinematography | H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Dwight Chapin |
| Edited by | Francisco Bello |
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Dipper Films
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| Distributed by | CNN Films and Cinedigm |
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Running time
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85 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Our Nixon is an all-archival documentary providing a view of the Nixon presidency through the use of home movies filmed by top Nixon aides combined with other historical material. It was directed by Penny Lane.
Throughout the Richard Nixon presidency (1969–1974) three of his top White House aides—chief of staff H.R. Haldeman, domestic affairs adviser John Ehrlichman and special assistant Dwight Chapin—extensively documented their experiences with Super 8 home movie cameras, creating a visual record of over 500 reels. These films were seized by the FBI during the Watergate investigation, then filed away for almost 40 years. Our Nixon is an all-archival documentary presenting these home movies together with other material, including excerpts from the secretly recorded Nixon White House tapes, contemporary news reports, and later interviews with the three staffers.
Our Nixon made its North American debut at 2013 South by Southwest and its international debut at the 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam. The film has subsequently screened at notable film festivals, including, among others, AFI DOCS in Washington, DC, the Los Angeles Film Festival, the 39th Annual Seattle International Film Festival, where Our Nixon won the 2013 Grand Jury award for Best Documentary Film, the 51st Ann Arbor Film Festival, where it won the Ken Burns Award for Best of the Festival, the 11th Annual Independent Film Festival of Boston, where it won the Karen Schmeer Award for Excellence in Documentary Editing, the 19th Annual Nantucket Film Festival, where it won the Adrienne Shelly Award for Excellence in Filmmaking, and the 9th Annual Traverse City Film Festival, where it won the Founders Prize for Best Documentary.
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