New focus on scandal in 'All the President's Men Revisited' Redford didn't even want the movie to be in color. "I originally wanted to make a black-and-white, small film with two unknowns," said Redford, who also served as producer on the film, which was directed by Alan J. Pakula and costarred Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam and Hal Holbrook. "The studios said, 'We don't want to do this because everybody knows the outcome,'" he recalled. I said, 'You don't know the inside of what happened. What you don't know is really a detective story.' Warner Bros. finally agreed to make the film but only if Redford would star. I said, 'Oh, brother.' I had to find somebody of equal stature. So I went to Dustin. Redford, Hoffman, Bernstein and Woodward reunite for the Discovery Channel documentary "All the President's Men Revisited" airing Sunday. More than just a look back at the film's production, the documentary, which Redford narrates and executive produced, chronicles the events that led to Nixon's near-impeachment and ultimate resignation from the presidency on Aug. 9, 1974. The documentary details the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., the subsequent scandal and the1973 Senate Watergate hearings. Woodward and Bernstein won a Pulitzer Prize for their journalistic investigation, which led to their bestselling books, "All the President's Men" and "The Final Days." Besides historical footage, the documentary features the revelatory and often shocking secret tape recordings that Nixon made that implicated him in the cover-up, along with interviews with several people involved in Watergate, including the Washington Post's then executive editor, Ben Bradlee; Hugh Sloan, the former treasurer of the Committee to Re-Elect the President; Alexander Butterfield, the former deputy assistant to the president; and John Dean, the former White House counsel who cooperated with prosecutors and implicated administration officials, Nixon and himself at the Watergate hearings. Redford's interest in doing a film revolving around Woodward and Bernstein's investigation was piqued just a month after the Watergate break-in. I was like, 'Who are these guys?' I was fascinated by the hard work of journalists," he said. I was fascinated by what hard work could produce. Bernstein, 28 at the time, recalled getting a call from Redford in 1972, but the journalists weren't interested. "We just went on with our work," said Bernstein, who is still close to Woodward. I remember saying to Woodward, 'The last thing we need right now is to get involved in some movie and confirm what the Nixon people and others are claiming - [that] we are in this for some kind of glory and we have an agenda.' The documentary, Bernstein said, shows Nixon "much like we wrote in 'The Final Days,' except it shows him more out of control and his total unsuitability for being president of the United States, particularly emotionally." "It was a moment in time when there was a convergence of all kind of things - personalities, the largest being Nixon, all of these people and the willingness to flagrantly break the law and think they would never be accountable," said Woodward, 29 at the time of the break-in. Both Woodward and Bernstein praise Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham and Bradlee for taking the risk of allowing them to continue to investigate the story and running interference when the White House criticized the paper's coverage. Woodward recalled a lunch he had with Graham in January 1973.