Told through the voice of former KGB agent Viktor Petrovich, whose life becomes inextricably linked with Ronald Reagan's when Reagan first caught the Soviets’ attention as an actor in Hollywood, Reagan overcomes the odds to become the 40th president of the United States.

‘The Butler’ vertelt het waargebeurde verhaal van Eugene Allen (Forest Whitaker), een kamerheer die meer dan drie decennia actief is geweest in het Witte Huis. Hij was in dienst van acht verschillende presidenten. Zijn carrière begon in 1952 toen Harry Truman de regerende president was en eindigde uiteindelijk in 1986, ten tijde dat Ronald Reagan president van Amerika was.

In het New York van de jaren 80 groeit de twaalfjarige Paul op in een hecht gezin. Door zijn grootvader wordt hij aangespoord om zijn creatieve dromen na te streven. Met zijn beste vriend, de Afro-Amerikaan John, is hij verantwoordelijk voor veel kattenkwaad. Dan wordt Paul door zijn ouders naar een privéschool gestuurd waar ook zijn oudere broer les volgt. Het is tevens een school waar het gros van de studenten niet enkel bevoorrecht, maar ook vooringenomen is. Paul beraamt met John een plan om weg te vluchten.

Tijdens een recessie duikt een goedkope, krachtige drug op met morele paniek, gevoed door racisme, als gevolg. Bekijk de complexe geschiedenis van crack in de jaren 80.

Een groep vrienden bezoekt een Woodstockachtig muziekfestival in de jaren tachtig. Een obsessieve Ronald Reagan- fan heeft zo zijn bedenkingen tegen dit fenomeen en begint een zoektocht naar drugs bij de aldaar samengestroomde hippies, hetgeen uitmondt in stalking van al diegenen die hem niet bevallen. Hij hoopt zo uiteindelijk te volbrengen waar hij jaren eerder als moordenaar ooit eens mee was begonnen...

Ronald Reagan said of his beloved Santa Barbara, California ranch, “No place before or since has ever given Nancy and me the joy and serenity it does.” President Reagan’s Rancho del Cielo, his home for nearly twenty-five years and the Western White House for eight, is a window into the soul of Ronald Reagan. But what if the Reagan Ranch had been lost? Future generations would have been robbed of the chance to visit the Ranch and “meet” the real Ronald Reagan. This videocassette is a tribute to the man and his ranch.

De miniserie bestrijkt de periode vanaf 1949, toen Reagan nog in Hollywood was, via zijn gouverneurschap van Californië tot Reagan's laatste dag als president in 1989.

Glencoe, Minnesota, een klein dorpje in Amerika dat leeft van de landbouw op een traditionele manier. In 1979 wordt dit dorpje ontdekt. Men heeft het over een dorp waar men niets wil weten van geweld, waar men gelukkig is en waar men weet hoe het land bewerkt moet worden en dit wordt overgegeven van vader op zoon. Het lijkt wel een paradijs. Vijf jaar later is de sfeer in het dorpje compleet veranderd. Men gelooft niet meer in de toekomst...

The Reagan Era was marked with names, triumphs and tragedy that made history that became the fabric of American life and memory: Iran-Contra the Cold War the Solidarity Movement and the candle in the White House window Pan Am 103 the Challenger disaster Beirut Libya. Ronald Reagan's speeches were inspired lectures that informed the nation - sometimes angry, sometimes confused, and sometimes frightened of the next steps their government would take. Ronald Reagan: An American Journey is a collection of these dialogues, creating a portrait of the man Time magazine named as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century.

Comprised entirely of archival footage taken during those pre-reality-television years, The Reagan Show looks at how Ronald Reagan redefined the look and feel of what it means to be the POTUS.

Boogie Man is a comprehensive look at political strategist, racist, and former Republican National Convention Committee chairman, Lee Atwater, who reinvigorated the Republican Party’s Southern Strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans. He mentored Karl Rove and George W. Bush and played a key role in the elections of Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

In 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presidents of the twentieth century -- and one of the most controversial. A failed actor, Reagan became a passionate ideologue who preached a simple gospel of lower taxes, less government, and anti-communism.

Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair is the third feature-length documentary produced by the Empowerment Project. The shadow government of assassins, arms dealers, drug smugglers, former CIA operatives and top US military personnel who were running foreign policy unaccountable to the public, revealing the Reagan/Bush administration's plan to use FEMA to institute martial law and ultimately suspend the Constitution. Strikingly relevant to current events.

The never-before-told story of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love – a spiritual group of surfers and hippies in Southern California that became the largest suppliers of psychedelic drugs in the world during the 1960s and early 1970s. Bonded by their dreams to fight social injustice and spread peace, this unlikely band of free-spirited idealists quickly transformed into a drug-smuggling empire and at the same time inadvertently invented the modern illegal drug trade. At the head of the Brotherhood, and the heart of this story, is the anti-capitalistic husband and wife team, who made it their mission to change the world through LSD.

Rocky IV is dually symbolic - it embodies both the victory of the American boxer over the Soviet one and the victory of neo-liberalism over a dwindling socialism. Today, Rocky is held up as a model by some and is a subject of derision for others. An emblem of the 1980s, its culture and its heroes, the film will be the subject of an entertaining analysis of popular culture.

After years of overproduction, the Reagan administration unloads over 500 million pounds of surplus cheese on the American public in the 1980s. The pungent dairy product comes to be known as 'Government Cheese.'

The recession of the 1980s split the country into the haves and have-nots, from family farmers to factory workers and homeless people forced to live in decrepit welfare hotels. On the verge of losing everything, courageous Americans discover the power of community organizing to fight injustice.

If Frankenstein's Monster is to the dark side of science, King Kong is to the Great Depression, Alien Invaders (like The Blob and The Thing) is to the Communist Threat, Godzilla is to the bomb, and The Milpitas Monster and Hedorah the Smog Monster are to pollution. Now, this robotic dinosaur made of various technological devices from Japan is to Japanese consumerism and possibly globalization!

Ronald Reagan was the President of the Screen Actor's Guild during the incredibly violent Hollywood trade union strike in the 1940's. Reagan saw first-hand the brutality, destruction and oppression that defined the communist party as it attempted to overtake the unions to convert them into propaganda mills for the Soviet Union. The strike incited in him a call to action and an unshakeable belief that communism was a "form of insanity" which must be wiped from the earth. From SAG President, to GE Spokesman, Governor of California and finally, to President of the United States, this film chronicles the rise of Ronald Reagan, his unwavering conviction that America was the world's last best hope of man, and shows why he is hero to over a billion people who he helped free from the bonds of Soviet domination.