Alan J. Pakula 's '' All the President 's Men '' ( 1976 ) , in which The Times scoops The Washington Post 's Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in one early scene -LRB- and gets beaten in others -RRB- , and Roland Joffe 's '' Killing Fields '' ( 1984 ) , about the tribulations of the correspondent Sydney H. Schanberg and his interpreter , Dith Pran , in Cambodia , were also based on real , and deadly serious , situations involving the paper .