In the Face of Evil: Reagan's War in Word and Deed - the full documentary

Certainly an example of hagiography, this is an operatic documentary based on Peter Schweizer's book, Reagan's War. The film starts with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914 and ends with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It's a pro-Republican, pro-American, pro-hawk film that exhibits absolutely no shame in its one-sidedness ... and nor should it. The enemy here is the "beast" composed of 20th Century 'isms, including fascism, Nazism, Bolshevism, communism, and eventually Islamism, all which seek power and control of the state and the end of the individual, playing "upon man's yearning for a utopian solution to its abject misery, a quasi-religious criminal taking the form of a political messiah."

Yeah, I like the film. No matter what some may think of Reagan's domestic policies, trickle-down economics, etc., it would seem a consensus now among historians that Reagan was mostly responsible for the dismantling of the Soviet empire. This movie is a tribute to that fact.

www.inthefaceofevil.com

Would America Have Been Better Off Without a Reagan Presidency?
His simple-mindedness had a touch of genius to it.
By CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS | SLATE

If I run the thought experiment and ask myself whether Walter Mondale would have made a better interlocutor in 1987, I cannot make myself believe it. This does not involve un-saying any of the things about Reagan that his admirers would prefer us to forget. But it does acknowledge the distinction between a historic presidency and an average one. Reagan's friend Margaret Thatcher once said that the real test of her success was the way that she had changed the politics of the Labour Party. By that standard, the legacy of Reagan in permanently altering the political landscape is with us still.