Deepthroat is a movie about government officials who disclose information without attribution. The film was released the same month as the water gate break in. It's responsible for some of the greatest myths to emerge out of the social and political turmoil of the sixties and seventies, says Peter Travers.
Journalists may write the first draft of history but Hollywood prints the legends and the myths. The 1976 film All the President’s Men remains our most authoritative account of Watergate. The film is also responsible for the myth of Deep Throat. Your host follows the myth… from 1976 to the present. This is the first half of a new ToE miniseries about America’s complicated relationship with truth and lies.