Ronald Reagan: A Legacy Remembered
Ronald Reagan: A Legacy Remembereduses interviews with Reagan's  family, cabinet members, and political peers (including Mikhail Gorbachev) to  paint a personal portrait as much as a political one. Home movies and  photographs give clues into his difficult childhood and young adulthood, while a  vast body of archival footage captures his film and television career (including  commercials, in which he pitched appliances with the same smooth style he would  later apply to the Republican agenda) and his political rise from governor of  California to president of the United States. The program argues that Reagan was  more than a handsome face mouthing the words of others, but also concedes that  he led with big ideas (Communism must be destroyed, taxes must be cut) and had  little interest in the details. However, the deep affection everyone around him  felt is evident in every interview.--Bret Fetzer