It’s hard to imagine a side of Richard Nixon that we don’t know. But from the moment Nixon entered the White House in 1969, top aides H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and Dwight Chapin were shooting home movies on Super 8 film to capture history in the making. Five hundred reels were confiscated by the FBI during the Watergate investigation, then held for decades in a vault. They form the core of this flip-side documentary, which captures from the inside what it was like to fall from world-beaters to convicts in a few short years. Thursday, Aug. 1, at 9 p.m., CNN
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