These 2 one-hour specials will take a look back at Ronald Reagan from his ups and downs as a Hollywood movie star to a legendary force in American politics. HOLLYWOOD YEARS: will take a look at the actor as he goes from local sports broadcaster to respected leading an using film clips, interviews and rare footage. This one a kind documentary traces the ups and downs of his on-screen career, his marriages to Hane Wyman and Nancy Davis and his role as a "friendly witness" during the McCarthy hearings. PRESIDENTIAL YEARS: documents Ronald Reagan's extraordinary transformation from a Hollywood movie star to a legendary force in American politics. From political spokesman to Governor of California, Reagan's rapid rise in leadership carried him all the way to the White House where he would inscribe an indelible legacy into the pages of world history.
Production
Rare footage of Reagan the actor before Reagan the brand.
Editing
Juxtaposing B-movie clips with nuclear summit footage hits different.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Reagan's 1964 'A Time for Choosing' speech for Goldwater became the template for modern conservative media performance—delivered by a man who literally studied lighting angles for camera presence.
Reagan's Screen Actors Guild presidency overlapped with his FBI informant period, where he named colleagues he suspected of communist sympathies—yet the documentary presents this as pragmatic rather than damning.
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