American Experience: Reagan, Part I - Lifeguard

Plot

This lengthy (4 1/2 hours) TV documentary on Ronald Reagan, part of The American Experience series, intercuts film clips, network feeds, home movies, and interviews to survey the life, career, philosophy, and policies of the 40th President of the United States. Interview subjects include Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, Ed Meese, Donald Regan, Nancy Reagan, Maureen Reagan, Ron Reagan, Patti Davis, Dr. Helen Caldicott, George Will, and Reagan's official biographer Edmund Morris. Narrated by David Ogden Stiers and filmed by WGBH Boston for PBS, the documentary premiered as a two-parter on 23-24 February 1998. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi

Cast

• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Margaret Thatcher
• George Schultz
• James Baker III
• Ed Meese

Donald Regan; Michael K. Deaver; Ed Rollins; Lyn Nofziger; Nancy Reagan; Maureen Reagan; Ronald Reagan; Patti Davis; Dr. Helen Caldicott; George Will; Robert Dallek; Edmund Morris; David Ogden Stiers - Narrator

Credit

Josh Clark - Associate Producer, Betty Cicarrelli - Editor, Michael Bacon - Composer (Music Score), Terry Hopkins - Cinematographer, Adriana Bosch - Producer, Austin Hoyt - Producer, Adriana Bosch - Screenwriter

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