The Reagan Show

The Made-for-TV Politics of Ronald Reagan

An award-winning documentary about the original performer-president's role of a lifetime. Teasing apart the spectacle at the heart of finger-on-the-button global diplomacy, the film follows Ronald Reagan's rivalry with charismatic Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Chock full of wit and political irony, and told solely through 1980s network news and videotapes created by the Reagan administration itself, THE REAGAN SHOW explores Reagan's made-for-TV approach to politics as he faced down the United States' greatest rival.

Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival. Winner of the David Carr Award for Truth in Non-Fiction Filmmaking and nominated for the Bruce Sinofsky Prize for Documentary Feature at the Montclair Film Festival.

"...A provocative and amusing look at President Ronald Reagan's use of television to sell economic plans, missile treaties and, mostly, himself." - John Anderson, Wall Street Journal

"It's like a time capsule prologue to today's world.'" - Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times