
An exploration of the Watergate scandal and how it eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

Nixon and the office of the special prosecutor face a showdown and the country is watching.

Republicans and Democrats struggle to work together under growing public pressure while an obscure White House bureaucrat named Alexander Butterfield drops a bombshell.

The first televised soap opera debuts but it's Congressional hearings; as the public is on the edge of their seats, new evidence in the Watergate case emerges and conservative North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin is the unlikely star.

A plane goes down in Chicago, intensifying suspicions of conspiracy in the Watergate case; mainstream journalists and intrepid outsiders pursue the truth through Nixon's bid for reelection.