Amparado bajo el seudónimo 'Garganta profunda', el subdirector del FBI William Mark Felt, ayudó a los periodistas del The Washington Post, Bob Woodward y Carl Bernstein, a destapar el escándalo del Watergate, que acabaría provocando la dimisión de Nixon como presidente de los Estados Unidos en agosto de 1974. La verdadera identidad del informador se mantuvo en secreto durante más de treinta años, hasta que el propio Felt decidió revelarla en 2005.
From 1971 to 1973, Richard Nixon secretly recorded his private conversations in the White House. This film chronicles the content of those tapes, which include Nixon's conversations on the war in Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers leak, his Supreme Court appointments, and more--while also exposing shocking statements he made about women, people of color, Jews, and the media.
In 2000, Illinois Gov. George Ryan ordered a moratorium on the death penalty after university students uncovered new evidence proving the innocence of 13 men on death row. This documentary follows the hearings held by a panel Ryan appointed to study the issue and interviews activists, scholars and prisoners, while examining the history of the American death penalty. As Ryan's time in office comes to an end, he must decide what steps to take to reform the judicial system.
