Frost/Nixon

The historic interview of a disgraced post-Watergate ex-President Nixon by the supposedly lightweight British chatshow host David Frost turned out to be one of the most explosive confrontations in American TV history. Michael Sheen catches the flash mannerisms of Frost while Frank Langella delivers a towering performance as Nixon, a man who finally realised it was time to come clean. Ron Howard directs Peter Morgan's razor-sharp script as a verbal boxing match. Knockout.