Opening on Friday, Frost/Nixon revolves around the 1977 interviews by British TV personality David Frost with former US president Richard Nixon, just a few years after the Watergate scandal forced Nixon to resign.

The drama is based upon the play of the same name by Peter Morgan, not to be confused with Frost/Nixon: The Original Watergate Interviews Broadcast in 1977 and also released on DVD in 2008.

It is directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard and produced by Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment and Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Films, Universal Pictures. A Beautiful Mind, Parenthood and Splash made from Howard one of this generation’s most popular directors.

Most recently, he directed the big-screen adaptation of the international bestseller The Da Vinci Code, starring Oscar winner Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Sir Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina, Jean Reno and Paul Bettany.

Prior to The Da Vinci Code, Howard directed and produced Cindarella Man starring Russell Crowe, with whom he previously collaborated on A Beautiful Mind, for which Howard earned an Oscar for Best Director and which also won awards for Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress. The film garnered four Golden Globes as well, including the award for Best Motion Picture Drama. Additionally, Howard won Best Director of the year from the Directors Guild of America (DGA).

What can offer a film more credit? Howard seems to be perfect for reviving history and making from it a best seller. The movie stars Frank Langella as former President of the US Richard Nixon and Michael Sheen as British TV broadcaster David Frost.

The setting of the movie is the period of tense events and negotiations leading up to the 1977 televised interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and Mr. Nixon about the political scandal of the Watergate.

The interviews, broadcast over four evenings in the summer of 1977, drew the highest television ratings ever for a news program - 45 million viewers.

Just as unlikely, the normally guarded Nixon made startling admissions - most memorably that “if the president does it, it isn't illegal.” He also gripped viewers around the world as the former president admitted for the first time he had made mistakes and let the American people down.

What is more? Well, don’t miss the movie!