2013 Movies : Historical

With Forest Whitaker • Alex Pettyfer • Cuba Gooding Jr. • James Marsden • Robin Williams • Alan Rickman • John Cusack • Terrence Howard • Minka Kelly • Colman Domingo • David Oyelowo • Liev Schreiber • Cassian Elwes • Pamela Oas Williams • Oprah Winfrey • Jesse Williams • Melissa Leo • Lenny Kravitz • Laura Ziskin • Danny Strong • Jane Fonda • Lee Daniels • Hilary Shor • Wil Haygood • Nelsan Ellis • Buddy Patrick

The Butler is inspired by Wil Haygood’s Washington Post article about an African-American man who served as a butler (Forest Whitaker) to eight Presidents in the White House for over thirty years. From this unique vantage point, The Butler traces the dramatic changes that swept American society, from the civil rights movement to Vietnam and beyond, and how those changes affected this man’s life and family.

With Penny Lane

Throughout Richard Nixon’s presidency, three of his top White House aides obsessively documented their experiences with Super 8 home movie cameras. Young, idealistic and dedicated, they had no idea that a few years later they’d all be in prison. This unique and personal visual record, created by H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and Dwight Chapin, was seized by the FBI during the Watergate investigation, then filed away and forgotten for almost 40 years. OUR NIXON is an all-archival documentary presenting those home movies for the first time, along with other rare footage, creating an intimate and complex portrait of the Nixon presidency as never seen before.