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'Watergate': Academy Award winner Charles Ferguson on drawing parallels between Nixon and Trump

Charles Ferguson's latest, 'Watergate,' releases on A&E November 2, and the director reveals how the documentary came about

Documentary filmmaker Charles Ferguson has a knack for condensing what many may perceive as controversial and politically-charged themes into easily digestible and intelligible pieces of film that play out on your screen over two-odd hours. It's a skill that's often underappreciated considering the sheer legwork and investigative ingenuity, as well as artistic chutzpah it involves to piece these documentaries together.

Nonetheless, Ferguson practically hit it out of the park with his very first one. Having founded Representative Pictures Inc. in mid-2005, Ferguson began production on 'No End in Sight: The American Occupation of Iraq.' The documentary focused on the two-year period following the American invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and laid bare the catastrophic mistakes made by the Bush administration that resulted in a host of problems in the country that are prevalent to this day.