From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 4pm Saturday in NZ, 2pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described Movies All the President's Men from 1976 and Aces High from 1976.
All the President's Men is a 1976 American Political biographical drama film about the Watergate scandal, which brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon.
Directed by Alan J. Pakula with a screenplay by William Goldman, it is based on the 1974 non-fiction book of the same name by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the two journalists investigating the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post.
The film stars Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Woodward and Bernstein, respectively; it was produced by Walter Coblenz for Redford's Wildwood Enterprises.
The film was nominated in multiple Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA categories, and, in 2010, was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
Directed by: Alan J. Pakula.
Screenplay by: William Goldman.
Based on All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward.
Produced by: Walter Coblenz.
Starring: Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook and Jason Robards.
Cinematography: Gordon Willis.
Edited by: Robert L. Wolfe.
Music by: David Shire.
Production company: Wildwood Enterprises.
Distributed by: Warner Bros.
Release date: 4 April , 1976.
File length: 132 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $8.5 million.
Box office:$70.6 million.
Aces High is a 1976 war film starring Malcolm McDowell, Peter Firth, Christopher Plummer and Simon Ward.
The film, which is an Anglo-French production, is based on the 1928 play Journey's End by R. C. Sherriff with additional material from the memoir Sagittarius Rising by Cecil Lewis.
It was directed by Jack Gold.
The screenplay was written by Howard Barker.
Aces High turns the trench warfare of Journey's End into the aerial battles fought above the Western Front by the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) in 1917.
The film covers a week of a squadron where the high death rate puts an enormous strain on the surviving pilots.
Directed by: Jack Gold.
Screenplay by: Howard Barker.
Based on: Journey's End (play) by R. C. Sherriff.
Produced by: Benjamin Fisz and Jacques Roitfeld.
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Plummer, Simon Ward, Peter Firth, David Wood, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, Richard Johnson and Ray Milland.
Cinematography: Gerry Fisher.
Edited by: Anne V. Coates.
Music by: Richard Hartley and Charles Chilton.
Production companies: S. Benjamin Fisz Productions and Jacques Roitfeld (Les Productions)
Distributed by: EMI Films (UK).
Release date: 19 May 1976 (UK), 8 June 1977 (France.
File length: 106 minutes.
Countries: United Kingdom and France.
Language: English.
Budget: £1,250,000.
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