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  • 2004
  • PG-13
  • Leo McWatkins Films
  • 1 h 50 m
  • 2004
  • PG-13
  • Leo McWatkins Films
  • 1 h 50 m

Summary Based on Peter Schweizer's acclaimed bestseller, "Reagan's War," this feature-length documentary chronicles the brutal conflict between totalitarianism and freedom as seen through Ronald Reagan's forty-year confrontation with Communism. (American Vantage Media)

Directed By: Steve Bannon

Written By: Peter Schweizer, Julia Jones, Steve Bannon

  • 2004
  • PG-13
  • Leo McWatkins Films
  • 1 h 50 m
  • 2004
  • PG-13
  • Leo McWatkins Films
  • 1 h 50 m

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

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Summary Based on Peter Schweizer's acclaimed bestseller, "Reagan's War," this feature-length documentary chronicles the brutal conflict between totalitarianism and freedom as seen through Ronald Reagan's forty-year confrontation with Communism. (American Vantage Media)

Directed By: Steve Bannon

Written By: Peter Schweizer, Julia Jones, Steve Bannon

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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22% Positive
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56% Mixed
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The devil had taken Reagan to the mountaintop and offered a world of spoils, from peace prizes to popular acclaim and a glamorous place in history. To reject it took more than guts. It took a man who put freedom ahead of his own glory. This is not a biography but the story of a man who faced off against the 20th century's "heart of darkness" and won.
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Bannon's film makes good use of historical footage to show how a B-list Hollywood actor made the unlikely ascension to commander-in-chief.
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A cinematic canonization that presents the 40th president as the 20th century's godsend.
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This is for the pre-converted, certainly not the left, or even those who consider themselves detached observers.
By Desson Thomson FULL REVIEW
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Archival material -- especially rare B&W Soviet footage -- is a knockout, though the assembly of talking heads, nearly all Reagan loyalists, is predictable and uninspired.
By Robert Koehler FULL REVIEW
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Were the film's tone not so hysterical it might be provocative; as it is, insights and insults are inextricably intertwined.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
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So over the top that it often plays like a parody.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Bannon Films, Leo McWatkins, Renegade Productions
Release Date Oct 15, 2004
Duration 1 h 50 m
Rating PG-13
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Website http://www.inthefaceofevil.com
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