The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee

The man who took on the White House

An intimate portrait of Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee, tracing his remarkable ascent from a young Boston boy stricken with polio to the one of the most pioneering and consequential journalistic figures of the 20th century.

TV Movie Documentary

Ben Bradlee

(Self (archive footage))

Carl Bernstein

(Self)

Tom Brokaw

(Self)

Jim Lehrer

(Self)

Sally Quinn

(Self)

Bob Woodward

(Self)

John F. Kennedy

(Self (archive footage))

Jacqueline Kennedy

(Self (archive footage))

Martin Luther King Jr.

(Self (archive footage))

Richard Nixon

(Self (archive footage))

Norman Lear

(Self)

Walter Cronkite

(Self (archive footage))

John Dean

(Self (archive footage))

Robert Redford

(Self)

Dustin Hoffman

(Self (archive footage))

Jason Robards

(Self (archive footage))

John Kerry

(Self (archive footage))