Steve Bannon made a Reagan doc before he made MAGA — buckle up.
Ronald Reagan was the President of the Screen Actor's Guild during the incredibly violent Hollywood trade union strike in the 1940's. Reagan saw first-hand the brutality, destruction and oppression that defined the communist party as it attempted to overtake the unions to convert them into propaganda mills for the Soviet Union. The strike incited in him a call to action and an unshakeable belief that communism was a "form of insanity" which must be wiped from the earth. From SAG President, to GE Spokesman, Governor of California and finally, to President of the United States, this film chronicles the rise of Ronald Reagan, his unwavering conviction that America was the world's last best hope of man, and shows why he is hero to over a billion people who he helped free from the bonds of Soviet domination.
Production
Bannon's early documentary craft before Breitbart fame.
Editing
Relentless heroic montage treats Reagan like secular saint.
Director
Tim Watkins
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Steve Bannon co-directed this years before running Breitbart and Trump's 2016 campaign. The heroic-martyr visual language here directly predicts his later political media strategy.
Released in 2004, this helped fuel Reagan's posthumous reputation rehabilitation and near-sainthood among conservatives — compare to how Democratic presidents rarely receive such unconflicted documentary treatment.
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