Product Details

• Actors: Richard Nixon, David Frost
• Directors: Jorn Winther
• Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Liberation Ent
• DVD Release Date: April 28, 2009
• Run Time: 400 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001Q8FSOI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,528 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Frost/Nixon: Complete Interviews (Two-Disc Special Edition)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

The complete televised interviews.

Synopsis:
This program, culled from the over 28 hours of interview footage between Sir David Frost and U.S. President Richard M. Nixon, was originally broadcast in May of 1977. Never before, nor since, has a U.S. President been so candid on camera. Even more intriguing is the fact that Nixon agreed to appear on camera with no pre-interview preparation or screening of questions.
Now the subject of a Major Motion Picture directed by Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon: The Complete Interviews is a riveting historic time capsule. Topics include the following:
Watergate,
Nixon And The World (Soviet Union, China)
War At Home And Abroad (Vietnam, Nixon s War at Home)
The Final Days (Resignation of Agnew, Personal Taxes, Nixon s Pardon)
The Last Roundup (18 ½ minute gap, Supreme Court, Kissinger, John Mitchell).


This program also contains new footage with Sir David Frost shot in 2007 discussing the historic impact of the interviews along with his reactions of their famous encounter. Frost also discusses his views on Peter Morgan s interpretation and screenplay adaptation of this historical event.

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating and Surprisingly Candid, April 29, 2009

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M. Baptiste (Daly City, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frost/Nixon: Complete Interviews (Two-Disc Special Edition) (DVD)

If you thought you saw it all with the Watergate interview that has been available on DVD for awhile, think again! The revelations in the Vietnam section of the Complete Frost/Nixon Interviews are even more shocking and candid. Watch as Nixon explains to Frost that when a President orders something illegal, say a break in, it isn't illegal. The China/USSR Interview is fascinating as well, and surprisingly funny, as Nixon delivers some Chinese jokes and actually kids Frost about "forgetting the microphones are on in the Oval Office." The Final Days and the Last Round Up are historic, too. Every President should sit down with someone like Frost after leaving office to leave us these in depth, thought provoking insights.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Riveting document of a bygone chapter in American history, August 3, 2007

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klavierspiel "klavierspiel" (TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frost/Nixon The Watergate Interview (DVD)

The recent success of the play "Frost/Nixon" on Broadway, with its Tony-winning performance by Frank Langella, has revived interest in its dramatic source: the exclusive interviews that a talk-show host then widely regarded as a lightweight scored with the former President of the United States, three years after his exit from office under a cloud of political scandal.

David Frost's interviews with ex-President of the United States Richard M. Nixon caused great excitement at the time of their first airing in 1977. This DVD makes available the most interesting of the segments, in which Frost confronts Nixon about his involvement in the Watergate scandal which had forced his resignation from the Presidency. Alternately ingratiating and truculent, Nixon vehemently denies that he committed any illegal act, even in the face of Frost's verbatim readings from the transcripts of the White House tapes that certainly suggest that the President condoned obstruction of justice, and payments of hush money to the perpetrators of the break-in to the Democratic Party's national headquarters.

Though the haggling over legalistic issues and exact meaning of words and phrases gets a bit tiresome early on, the later payoff is more than ample compensation, as Frost draws wrenching accounts from Nixon about firing his trusted aides, Haldeman and Ehrlichman, and, in the climactic last portion, elicits from the former President the admission that he "let the American people down." Seen in the light of the continued hubris of the present administration in the face of what to many are much greater transgressions, Nixon's contrition, veiled as it is, is extraordinary. This DVD brings back a fascinating chapter in American history. Framing interviews with Sir David Frost, reminiscing about the circumstances under which the interviews were arranged and executed, are a worthy bonus.

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What about the other 27 hours?, December 23, 2008

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J. Miller "Peace." (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frost/Nixon: The Original Watergate Interviews (DVD)

OK...it's my own fault for not reading the description but I really thought I would have the chance to see considerably more footage of the interview. don't get me wrong, this is exceptional work. As someone not old enough to view the PBS special in it's original form, I really wanted to see more than 88 minutes.