R.I.P. President Reagan, the best, the most charismatic, dedicated and civilised American president. Sorely missed.

RIP Edmund Morris and President Reagan Hard to believe Reagan has been gone for nearly 15 yrs. He died 3 and a half weeks before I turned 12.

So thankful for this upload! With so many lies about who Ronald Reagan was these days, it's a great blessing to hear who he was in his own words not what people said he was. He was all about making America great again!

His Son is so bitter about his father. It's sad

You’re missing Part 2. Can you please repost it?

Regan was e HUGE president!! I never understood why there is no a hollywood - quality movie about him? But now I know it: because he was white, patriot and family - centrist..

Ooo, I miss David McCullough. Thank you for this video!

The BEST president we've ever had. We need another Reagan badly.

A great President. Thank you for posting.

what year is this from?

Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: the last two adults to rule in America and Britain. My, how I long for the times when grownups were in charge.

My favorite president. While I like American Experience programs you can always see the left-leaning bias (although much less than other media, making it watchable). For example, you'll notice how these programs and other media always talk about homelessness and plight of the poor and working class on programs featuring Republican presidents, but rarely if ever do so on programs featuring Democrat presidents. I am 40 years old and vividly remember the pathetic "recovery" from 2010-2016 during the Obama years. It was pathetic and most of my peers and I had a very difficult time finding jobs and our footing in the economy. In addition, very little media talks about the Republican landslide House election in 1994, with the main issues being Clinton signing NAFTA and the crap economy during his first two years. The truth is that the poverty rate in America declined from just over 15% in 1981 to under 12% in 1989. Reagan's economic policies redefined wealth in America, and if you were on the dole, then yes, Reagan wasn't the president for you (yet the goal should always be that able-bodied people work instead of being parasites). You'll also notice how they gloss over the economic accomplishments of Republican presidents also, and they definitely did in this documentary. Real gdp per capita and incomes almost doubled from 1981 to 1989....that is extraordinary, and you can see that in Reagan winning 49 states in 1984 and almost 60% of the vote (almost impossible in modern American national politics). You can see little greater evidence of Reagan's accomplishments than GHWB winning an electoral landslide in 1988 (because people wanted a third Reagan term) and then getting roundly thumped in 1992. Compare this to Gore and Hilary, who both lost in 2000 and 2016 after following "popular" Democrat presidents.

Thatcher and Reagan were soul mates. They both rescued their nations from despair and Socialism.

My mother hated Carter so much that she worked his first presidential campaign. She NEVER did anything like that before or since.

Student strike? Wtf? Lmao.

The best thing about Ford is that he wasn't Nixon.

TS - You know I'm such a Reaganite because not only was he about liberty and freedom, both personal and economic, but I graduated in 1987 and those were golden years for freedom heading into the unthinkable fall of tge wall. We sre a deeoky politically plugged-in family. In 1980, he was a lifesaver after the disaster of Carter.

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Suspicious how this doc avoids explanation of Reagan’s adversaries. Comparing it to stuff like “Eyes on the Prize”, civil rights doc that attempts to include the contextual motives of segregationists in a fair way, this doc here is strangely quiet about what the crazy 60s movements that Reagan denounced were actually about. I don’t know hardly anything about Reagan or the 60s; only coming here from Eyes on the Prize this doc smacks of hagiography. The saving grace thus far is the inclusion of Reagan’s more cynical son.

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watching this sounds a lot like Trump, someone who believes in america at a time when people love hating on america.......and knows that other countries are taking advantage of us

Whoa...Ben Stein spotted

Reagan won by appealing to optimism. He was viewed as a kindly patrician. He never cursed. Was never cruel or harsh or mean. How far we've fallen. Trump annihilated any sense of optimism. Even his supporters now appeal only to the petty, the insults, the "whataboutism", the sneering, mockery, scorn. Imagine what Reagan would say about Trump. He'd be horrified. We know Trump despised the gentlemanly Reagan and said so all the time when Reagan was President:

At 1:37:40 can you see Speaker Pelosi calling President Trump congratulating him on say getting enough votes to fund a border wall?