Academy Award winners Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star in this true story as Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. When they cover a seemingly routine story of a break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington's Watergate office building, their reportage and subse-quent revelations move Congress to force the President of the United States to resign. "The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.